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[Frontispiece: Sir Walter Scott]




  THE COUNTRY OF
  SIR WALTER SCOTT

  BY
  CHARLES S. OLCOTT


  _Author of George Eliot: Scenes and People of Her Novels_



  ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
  BY THE AUTHOR



  BOSTON AND NEW YORK
  HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
  The Riverside Press Cambridge




COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY CHARLES S. OLCOTT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published September 1913




  TO

  MY WIFE

  THE COMPANION OF MY TRAVELS
  TO WHOSE SYMPATHETIC COOPERATION I AM
  INDEBTED FOR MUCH OF THE MATERIAL
  THIS BOOK
  IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED




  CONTENTS

  Introduction

  I. The 'Making' of Sir Walter
  II.