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ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOL. I.
PORTRAIT, painted by JOHN GRAHAM GILBERT, R.S.A., for the Royal Society,
Edinburgh. Copied by permission of the Council of the Society,
_Frontispiece_
VIGNETTE on Title-page
"The Dial-Stone" in the Garden, from drawing made at Abbotsford by
GEORGE REID, R.S.A.
"WORK WHILE IT IS DAY."
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[Greek: NUX GAR ERCHETAI.]
"_I must home to 'work while it is called day; for the night cometh
when no man can work.' I put that text, many a year ago, on my
dial-stone; but it often preached in vain_."--SCOTT'S _Life_, x.
88.
MAP OF ABBOTSFORD, from the Ordnance Survey, 1858, _to face_ p. 414.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT'S JOURNAL.
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NOVEMBER.
[_Edinburgh_,] _November_ 20, 1825.--I have all my life regretted that I
did not keep a regular Journal. I have myself lost recollection of much
that was interesting, and I have deprived my family and the public of
some curious information, by not carrying this resolution into effect. I
have bethought me, on seeing lately some volumes of Byron's notes, that
he probably had hit upon the right way of keeping such a
memorandum-book, by throwing aside all pretence to regularity and order,
and marking down events just as they occurred to recollection. I will
try this plan; and behold I have a handsome locked volume, such as might
serve for a lady's album. _Nota bene_, John Lockhart, and Anne, and I
are to raise a Society for the suppression of Albums. It is a most
troublesome shape of mendicity. Sir, your autograph--a line of
poetry--or a prose sentence!--Among all the sprawling sonnets, and
blotted trumpery that dishonours these miscellanies, a man must have a
good stomach that can swallow this botheration as a compliment.
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