With Five Engravings:
1. ABBOTSFORD, (_from the Garden_.)
2. THE ARMOURY.
3. THE POET'S STUDY.
4. PORTRAIT--(_from the last painting_.)
5. DRYBURGH ABBEY.
[Illustration: ABBOTSFORD, (FROM THE GARDEN, see page 247.)]
Sir Walter Scott was the third son of Walter Scott, Esq., Writer to
the Signet, in Edinburgh, and Anne, daughter of Dr. John Rutherford,
Professor of Medicine in the University of the above city. His
ancestry numbers several distinguished persons; though the well-earned
fame of Sir Walter Scott readers his pedigree comparatively
uninteresting; inasmuch as it illustrates the saw of an olden poet,
that
Learning is an addition beyond
Nobility of birth: honour of blood,
Without the ornament of knowledge, is
A glorious ignorance.