CONTENTS

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I. Queen Mary’s Edinburgh:—
  1. Queen Mary’s Return to Scotland, August 1561 1
  2. Plan and Fabric of Edinburgh in 1561 9
  3. The Edinburgh Population in 1561 20
II. Robert Rollock and the Beginnings of Edinburgh University 35
III. King James’s Farewell to Holyrood 61
IV. Proposed Memorial to Drummond of Hawthornden 76
V. Allan Ramsay 88
VI. Lady Wardlaw and the Baroness Nairne 110
VII. Edinburgh through the Dundas Despotism 141
VIII. The Last Years of Sir Walter Scott 204
IX. Carlyle’s Edinburgh Life:—
  Part I.—1809–1818 226
  Part II.—1818–1822 262
  Part III.—1822–1828 302
X. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe 359
XI. John Hill Burton 372
XII. Dr. John Brown of Edinburgh 384
XIII. Literary History of Edinburgh: a General Review 417