and also the general reader may think of "the sweet Highland girl" associated with it, and celebrated by Wordsworth. The two travellers took leave of Rob Roy,- always faithfully their friend, — and embarked in a boat (rowed by his people), probably at Rowardennan, the usual starting-point for the ascent of Ben Lomond, that rises magnificently above that place. Thence they enjoyed a pleasant passage across Loch Lomond to the mouth of Leven Water, its outlet, at the south-west. This largest of Scottish lakes deserves long attention, although it is almost too well known to be here described. Its upper or northern end is comparatively narrow, and bordered by lofty and very picturesque mountains. Towards the south, it by degrees expands, and the neighs along its sides become less, especially westward, after at half its length, Ben Lomond, the highest of all, is passed. The south part is quite broad, and presents expanses of water, romantic islands, and pleasant shores of diversified fields and park-like lands. At the mouth of Leven Water the travellers of the story found horses awaiting them. Thence, by what was then a long ride, they reached Glasgow on that same night, greatly to the joy of the Bailie, who had small wish ever again to explore the beauties of the "land of the mountain and the flood." At Glasgow Mr. Frank met his father. Certain differences that had originated from his declination of a business life were happily settled, and the two were reconciled. There, also, he learned of the outbreak of the Rebellion of 1715, — a great political and military movement that explained many intricacies of the Osbaldistone affairs, hitherto inexplicable, to him at least. Thence he and his father immediately went to London, Mr. Frank to take a commission under the established government. The entire Highland scenery of this novel (already sketched) can be seen during a single day's excursion from Glasgow, by the Forth and Clyde railway, carriage or foot from Bucklyvie, and the Loch Lomond steamer; or in two days, if the ascent of Ben Lomond is made. The further action of the story introduces no new scenes of importance. At London, Frank Osbaldistone learned of the death of Sir Hildebrand, and of all his sons except Rashleigh. He also learned that his uncle had left him heir to the North-country estates. In due time, he consequently went to the old Hall to examine it, as will be remembered; and, in its venerable library, he again romantically met the charming Diana, - a fugitive with the stranger whom he had seen with her in the Highlands, her father. The decisive and exciting scenes that occurred immediately after this meeting need only to be suggested to the visitor to the supposed Hall, and so, also, the future career of the heir, of the beautiful Die, and, finally, of their bold and faithful and most useful friend, Rob Roy. THE HE name of Rob Roy, and the romantic country that once was his, also suggest those spirited, poetic, and characteristic verses in which the Great Magician has, with such picturesque power, perpetuated the memory of vicissitudes of that doomed people,—the Macgregors. A portion of these verses, called "Macgregor's Gathering," were written for Albyn's Anthology in 1816, and begin : "The moon's on the lake, and the mist's on the brae, Gather, gather, gather," &c. We can hardly, more pleasantly finally, turn attention from the "affairs" of "'15" and "'45" than by (now pardonably with no little admiration) recalling a part, at least, of Flora Mac Ivor's song in "Waverley," with its intense, its romantic, though misguided, Jacobitical patriotism, and its associations with Highland scenery like that celebrated in "Rob Roy," and with clan life and warfare, passed away for ever. "There is mist on the mountain, and night on the vale, A stranger commanded - it sunk on the land, It has frozen each heart, and benumb'd every hand! "Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, To the march and the muster, the line and the charge." There are a few scenes intimately associated with the celebrated chieftain, and not introduced in the novel, such as his “prison" on Loch Lomond, below Inversnaid landing, and his cave (Craigroyston), one and three quarters miles north of the last, "a wild, deep, cavern," where he is said to have planned some of his raids. Two circles painted on the rock now mark it. About a dozen miles north of Callander, at Balquhidder village, may be seen his burial place, commemorated in Wordsworth's poem, "Rob Roy's Grave," and containing the remains of this last of the predatory Highlandborder chieftains. "SCOTT'S GLASGOW." TRA `RAVELLERS through the Lands of Scott are supposed, while visiting the scenes of "Rob Roy," to make the only visit proposed to the important city of Glasgow and its vicinity. There is a vast deal, of course, to see in that region, not associated with Scott, of which the local guide-books tell enough. Besides places in the city already mentioned as associated with the Great Magician, there will be found in George Square, where most travellers will sojourn, a sort of Doric column, about eighty feet high, bearing a large standing statue by Ritchie, erected in 1837, as a memorial to him. Around it, appropriately, stand effigies of other great men. In 1817, the same year in which “Rob Roy" was written, its author visited Glasgow, and examined scenes there that he associated with it. He does not, however, appear to have spent much time, at any period, in the city, and there are not many spots in it connected with his personal history. Glasgow is, as indicated, a capital point from which to make excursions into Lands of Scott, and this chapter may close with brief recapitulation of them. Associated with "Rob Roy" (besides the Cathedral, the Saut Market, the Bridge, and University, in Glasgow), are the scenes reached by rail to Bucklyvie and by the Loch Lomond steamer, and described on pages 180 to 185. Associated with "Old Mortality" (chapter xxii.) is the scenery around Bothwell Brigg and Castle, accessible by rail or carriage from Glasgow, and described on pages 194-6, and Lanark. Associated with "Castle Dangerous" (chapter xxiii.) is DouglasDale, accessible from Lanark. Associated with the closing scenes of "The Heart of Mid-Lothian" (chapter xxix.) is the pleasant region around Gare Loch, easily reached by steamer down the Clyde. Associated with the latter portions of the poem, "The Lord of the Isles" (chapter xiii.), are parts of the picturesque Isle of Arran (pages 116-17), accessible by steamer; and of the Ayrshire coast, accessible by railway, from Glasgow to Ayr, "The Land of Burns," and then on foot or by carriage. XXII. "OLD MORTALITY.” Fifth Novel of the Series; Written 1816; Published Dec. 1, 1816; Author's Age, 45; Time of Action, May 5, 1679-1690. Ex XPLORATION of the Lands of Scott has been supposed, as already shown, to lead from Carlisle to Glasgow. Between these two cities, and, parenthetically, between scenes of "Rob Roy," are interesting places associated with this capital story. There are two classes of these places, one relating to the historical subject, vividly illustrated by this novel, and one to the real or supposed scenes of its incidents. Both classes can be visited from either of the cities just named, or the former class from Moffat, — a pretty watering-place nearly midway, and the latter from Lanark, nearer Glasgow. "Old Mortality" has been called the "Marmion" of the Waverley novels. Its character is certainly animated and quite historical. It was the first novel in which Scott reproduced the aspects of the past almost entirely from resources of study rather than from those of observation. The success is triumphant. Again, for this work, Mr. Train (page 161) provided much material and rendered assistance by collecting and supplying information about incidents. The more historical features are delineated from public or printed authorities rather well known, and present Scott's conceptions of the general subject of which he treats in this story, — that of the Westcountry Covenanters during the latter part of the seventeenth century. "The remarkable person [he stated in the introduction, 1829] called by the title of Old Mortality was well known in Scotland about the end of the last century. His real name was Robert Paterson. He was a native, it is said, of the parish of Closeburn, in Dumfries-shire, and probably a mason by profession." Scott met him, for the only time, at the churchyard or castle of Dunottar (Kincardine), in 1793. During about forty years his sole occupation was that of repairing and recutting inscriptions upon tombstones erected to Covenanters who had suffered for conscience' sake. Many of these memorials are scattered in remote spots throughout south-western Scotland. Their protector, during a visit to some of these near Bankend, parish of Caerlaverock, about eight miles from Dumfries, was found by the roadside, seriously ill, and was thence taken to a house where he soon died. He was buried in the churchyard of Caerlaverock, where no stone marked the place of his repose, until recently, when Messrs. Black, the eminent Edinburgh publishers of Scott's works, caused to be erected on the spot a round-topped, red freestone, bearing a crossed mallet and chisel over the following inscription: "Erected | To The Memory of Robert Paterson | The | Old Mortality | of | Sir Walter. Scott | who was Buried Here | February, 1801. "Why seeks he with unwearied toil Through Death's dim walls to urge his way, Reclaim his long arrested spoil, And lead oblivion into day?" The West-country Covenanters were a peculiar people. Scott endeavored to portray them correctly, and also their great opponent, John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, an officer so prominent in the royal service, and in his pursuit of these persons, against whom he was commissioned, and whose character, Scott is reported to have said, has been "foully traduced; . . . who, every inch a soldier and a gentleman, still passed among the Scottish vulgar for a ruffian desperado; who rode a goblin horse; was proof against shot, and in league with the devil." He was, at least, a soldier detailed to unfortunate duty. Whatever opinion, between exaggerated praise or censure, may now be held respecting these Covenanters, we can but believe them, in some manner, worthy of the enthusiastic regard they have gained among a large and respectable class of their countrymen. They were strong religious zealots, opposed in faith and in politics to the existing powers of Church and of State, at a period when religious feeling was often extremely violent. They erred in regard to their worldly interests, and in regard to policy, and had not all the lovable qualities; but few have lived more devotedly or have demonstrated more earnestly the stern virtues of Scottish character. Whatever are the opinions of travellers now respecting them, all may be interested in visiting a wild and picturesque region consecrated by their sufferings, borne while they served, even to death, what they honestly believed duty to liberty of faith and of practice. Accordingly, we may well employ a day, while at the pretty little |