, 381, 382,
384, 390; ii. 9, 39, 53.
'Balaam,' i. 184 and _n_.
Balcaskie Manor-house, i. 404.
Balfour of Balbirnie, ii. 232.
Charles, ii. 368.
Ballantyne & Co., i. 51-53;
stop payment, 83;
liabilities, 99 _n_., ii. 160.
Alexander, i. 192; ii. 14, 149, 258, 299, 312;
skill as a violinist, i. 398;
assumed as a partner, ii. 237.
James, meeting with Cadell and Constable, i. 13;
calls at Castle Street, 57;
dinner and guests, 58;
on Scott's style, 75, 81, 83;
on _Devorgoil_, 95, 96;
'False Delicacy,' 99;
_Woodstock_, 103;
as "Tom Tell-truth," recollections of _Lord of the Isles_, 128;
_Malachi_, 130, 132;
mottoes, 161;
opinion of _Woodstock_, 167;
press corrections, 174, 191;
'roars for chivalry,' 222;
opinion on _Napoleon_, 239, 251;
illness, 257;
at Abbotsford, 263-264;
_Napoleon_, 374, 398;
on _Bride of Lammermoor_ and _Legend of Montrose_, 408, 409 _n_.;
prospect, ii. 4;
_The Drovers_, 11;
commercial disasters, 12 _n._;
_Chronicles_, 14, 81, 90, 112;
at Abbotsford, 15, 356-357 _n_., 395;
the copyrights, 38;
criticism, 78;
Scott's consideration for, 106;
on "Ossianic" character, 122, 158;
Scott's handwriting, 204;
wife's illness and death, 234-236;
names his trustees, 238, 240, 266, 267;
letter from Scott, 270, 272, 312, 315;
visit to Prestonpans, 340;
objects to a new epistle from Malachi, 357;
approves of an amanuensis, 371;
a motto wanted, 374.
Ballingray, ii. 209, 338.
Baluty Mount, ii. 440.
Bankes, William, i. 12 and _n_., 306, 309; ii. 173 _n_.
Bank of Scotland, ii. 244.
Banking Club of Scotland, ii. 246.
Bank-note business, i. 144.
Bannatyne Club, i. 350, 351, 370; ii. 77, 89, 121, 237, 314, 338.
_Bannatyne, George, Memorial of_, ii. 87 and _n_.
Sir Wm, M'Leod, ii. 129.
_Barham, The_, ii. 414 _seq_.
Barnard Castle, ii. 197.
Barranco, ii. 465.
Barrington, Mrs., ii. 47.
Barrow, Sir John, i. 21, 381; ii. 427.
Bathurst,
Earl, i. 362 _n_.; ii. 51, 172.
Lady, i. 306.
Colonel Seymour, ii. 445, 446.
Bauchland, ii. 14.
Bayes in the _Rehearsal_, i. 205 and _n_.
_Beacon_ newspaper, i. 323 and _n_.
Beard's _Judgments_, ii. 79.
Beauclerk, Lady Charlotte, i. 18, 19.
Beaumont and Fletcher's _Lover's Progress_, i. 46.
Beaumont, Sir George, i. 111;
anecdote of, with Wordsworth, 334;
death, 358.
Beauvais Cathedral, i. 285.
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