A Commemorative Lecture In Celebration of The Centenary of Waverly

" -Are not the doings of Sir Walter Scottein autumn of the publication of Waverley- worth. "( 5 ) recalling for the sake alone of this heroic association ? But while the- inspection of the existing lighthouses and the surveying of new sites wasthe proper work of the expedition, the party of which Sir Walter was a member, did very muvh more in these trolided six weeks of sea-life. [...] Most instructive is it to ate student of Scott to compare the novel and the journal : he may gain an insight into the alchemy by which the wizard of the north transmutes the plain record of the diary into romance. [...] The voyage with the Light-house Commissiondrs besides being a holiday trip, was itself partly undertzkAm the interest of the LoPd of the Isles, a poem whith was on the stocks at the 9-erd, and which appeared in 1815. [...] " Of pin" because the last chapters of the brilliant personal 'story of the autkor of Waverley are tiltgic, because the touch- . stone of the greatness la/ his character was NyersitN. [...] To see in the " sweet- tempered bairn "—like Krishna, . the darling of the milkmaids—lying on the ground among the crags of Sandy-Knowe,a—rnitnron his friend the cow-bailie's shoulder, the magician who charmed all Europe to a delight in Scottish Acenery anal character; we might listen to the lam' school boy,,whose stories, like those of a later It usf were the delight and 1. 1180ra. ; of his school c