CONTENTS. , IX 



CHAPTER X. 



THE PROFESSOR AND HIS CLASS. 

 His Syllabus— The Professor in bis Sporting Jacket — Adventure in Hawick—" A little Mill" — 

 Makes two Students at home in Ann Street — The Professor and his * Children" at St. Mary's 

 Loch — Mr. Hill Burton's Reminiscences of the winter of 1S30 — A Market-day at Tarland — A kind 

 Teacher — A Dinner at Gloucester Place — His Class — Saturday — A Snow-ball Eiot — Any Old 

 Clothes? — "Sir Peter Ninimo" and the poet Wordsworth — Dr. Syntax — A "Conservative" Meet- 

 ing — Politics in the Class — Eev. Mr. Smith's Recollections of 1837 — As a Lecturer — His Course 

 for 1837-1838 — Illustration, the Love of Power — His Power as an Orator — " The Demosthenes of 

 Ireland" — An Episode in the Class-room — His Care and Industry in Examining the Students' 

 Essays — His Kindness to them privately — The Session forlS50-lS51 — Mr. A. Taylor Innes — 

 "Professor Wilson's Gold Medal" — The Origin of the Moral Faculty — His Appearance in the 

 Class-room — An Unmannerly Student Pages 225-256. 



CHAPTER XI. 



LITERARY AND DOMESTIC LITE. 



1820-'26. 

 Lays from Fairy Land — Devotion to the Magazine, and Friendship for Mr. Blackwood — Lights 

 and Shadows of Scottish Life — A Summer in Elleray once more — Letter from Mr. Blackwood — 

 Letter from Mr. Lockhart on Mr. Leigh Hunt — The Gormandizing School of Eloquence — Miss 

 Edgeworth, etc., etc. — Tom Purdie — Willie Laidlaw, etc. — Letters from Mr. Blackwood regarding 

 the Magazine — Another Summer at Elleray — Letter from Mr. Blackwood— Letters from Mr. 

 Lockhart — The People he met in London — Edward Irving's Preaching described — Party Politics 

 — Literary Gossip — Old Slop and the Xew Time* — A Daily Paper at the Breakfast-table, etc. — 

 Letter from De Quincey — Hill on Education — The "Breeches" Review — "A Confession" — Acci- 

 dent to Mrs. Wilson — Letter to Mr. R. Findlay — Death of Mrs. Wilson, Senior — Letter from 

 Principal Baird — Removal to Gloucester Place — The Proposed Chair of Political Economy- 

 Letters from Mr. Patrick Robertson, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Canning, and Sir Robert Peel on the 

 Subject — Literary work — Projected " Outlines" — Correspondence of Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Wil- 

 son on "Janus" — Letters from Mr. Lockhart on Sir Walter's visit to Elleray — Letter from Pro- 

 fessor Jameson — Letter from Mr. Lockhart on Canning — W. Maginn — Letter from Mr. Black- 

 wood — Letter to Delta on "Janus" — Illness of Mrs. Wilson — Letter from Mr. Lockhart, on be- 

 coming Editor of the Quarterly Jieciew — Work during 1826 — Letters to Mrs. Wilson from Ken- 

 dal — Colonsay 256-293 



CHAPTER XII. 

 LITERARY AND DOMESTIC LIFE. 



1827-'29. 



As a Friendly Critic — Letter to Delta — Views on Free Trade — " Mansie Waugh," etc. — Notes to 

 Mr. Ballantyne — Innerleithen — Letter to Mr. Fleming, Rayrig, on " Christopher North," etc.— 

 Letters to Mrs. Wilson — Hartley Coleridge — Contributions for 1828 — Letters from Allan Cun- 

 ningham, regarding " The Anniversary," " Edderline's Dream," etc. — Mrs. Wilson to Miss Penny 

 — " Evening at Furness Abbey" — Letter from James Hogg, declining an invitation to Elleray — 

 Letter to Mr. Fleming — Letter from Thomas Carlyle — Letter from Mr. Lockhart — Contest for 

 Oxford University, 1829 — Letter to De Quincey, on his Sketch of the Professor — Thomas De 

 Quincey — Affection for him — His visit to Gloucester Place 299- 328 



CHAPTER XIII. 



LITERARY AND DOMESTIC LIFE. — CRUISE AVITH THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON. 



1830-'32. 



Home Life in Gloucester Place — Letters to Mrs. Wilson from Penny Bridge and Westmoreland- 

 Homeric Papers — Letter from Sotheby — Letter from Miss Watson — A Conservative Meeting 



