education, 242
embarrassments of, 251--256
and the Ettrick Shepherd, 335
family, 253
fatal illness, 252
funeral of, 253
by an eye-witness, 345
Life of Napoleon, 251
love of reading, 243
law studies, 244
literary attempts, 244
marriage, 246
medal of, 255
memory, 245
Melrose Abbey, 436
parentage, 242
portraits of, 254
school days, 243
Selkirk, 437
sheriffdom, 246
telling a story, 243
Works of:
Dryden and Swift, edition of, 247
Eve of St. John, 245
Glenfinlas, 245
Goetz of Berlinchingen translated, 245
Lady of the Lake, 247
Lay of the Last Minstrel, 246
Leonora, &c., translations of, 245
Marmion, 247
Miscellaneous Works, 250
Novels, List of, 250
Rokeby and Minor Poems, 249
unpublished works, 255
Waverley, 249
Novels, 252
Sea, depth of the, 427
Sea-shore, changes on, 78
Seal, a blind one, 298
Seaman, knowing, 432
Secret Lover, the, from the Persian, 204
Servants affected by fashionable manners and customs, 331--348
Servants in India, 105
Servant, monument to a faithful one, 288
Servants, Vails to, 318
Shark, adventure with, 381
Shaving or throat-cutting, 272
Shelly, the poet, anecdote of, 407
Sheridan's Funeral, 448
Sheriff of London, Journal of, 196--212
Shrewsbury, Anna Maria, Countess of, 112
Silk Manufacture, outline of, 446
Skeleton Dance, from Goethe, 420
Slave Trade in England, 319
Smoking forbidden in Parliament, 336
Snake, anecdote of a tame one, 327
Snuff-boxes, Laurencekirk, 151
Snuffers, antique, 337
Soldier, annual cost of, 176
dress of, 448
Solecisms in Language, 350
Somersetshire, land-custom in, 112
Song from the Album of a Poet, 98
Songs, by Barry Cornwall, 46
Song, Scottish, 317
Song-writing, spirit of, 11
Sounds during the night, 107
Spain, stupendous bridge in, 24
Spaniards and Portuguese, 69
Spencer's account of the Irish Mantle, 415
Spinning-wheel Song, 391
Spirit of Despotism, by Dr. Knox, 106
Spirit-drinking, evils of, 307
in 1736, 133
Spontaneous combustion, 162--211
Spring, harbingers of, 174
St. Cross, Church and Hospital of, 217--228
St. Dunstan's in the West, new church of, 34
St. Goar on the Rhine, legend of, 386
St. Hellen's Well, Staffordshire, 228
St. James's Park, improvement of, 41