SIR WALTER SCOTT CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOLDAYS (I77I-I783) IN his delightful fragment of autobiography, and often elsewhere in his writings, Scott refers humorously to the passion of his countrymen for pedigrees ; but he was himself too thorough a Scotsman, and far too deeply imbued with the spirit of the feudal past, to treat such a matter with serious contempt. Frankly admitting the national weakness, he enters forthwith, and at considerable length, into the details of his ancestral history, and evidently attaches more importance than would most readers of the present day to the fact that he was connected, though remotely, with ancient families on both his father's and his mother's side. His was, indeed, " no bad genealogy for a Border minstrel," for the blood of many generations of sturdy old fighters coursed in ATable of Contents CONTENTS; :haf page; i Childhood and Schooldays (1771-1783) 1; 11 College, Profession, and Marriage (1783-1797) 23; in Literary Beginnings - The...

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