The scenery around his burial-place is fraught with melancholy associations—­enshrined as have been its beauties by him that now sought a bourn amidst them.  It had been the land of his poetical pilgrimage:  through its “bosomed vales” and alongside its “valley streams” his genius had journeyed with untiring energy, then to spread abroad its stores for the gratification of hundreds of thousands, who may about his grave

  Make dust their paper, and with rainy eyes
  Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.

—­Only let us glance at a few of the storied sites that are to be seen around this hallowed spot:  at Melrose, with antique pillar and ruins grey—­

    Was ever scene so sad and fair.

Eildon Hill, where Sir Walter said he could stand and point out forty-three places famous in war and verse;[14] and above all, the tower of Smailholm Castle, where once “his careless childhood strayed,”—­the Alpha of his poetic fame.

    [14] Cunningham.

FAMILY.

Sir Walter Scott had two sons and two daughters.  The elder daughter, Sophia Charlotte, was married, April 28, 1820, to Mr. John Gibson Lockhart, advocate, editor of the Quarterly Review.  The eldest son, Walter, who has succeeded to the baronetcy, is now in his thirty-second year, and Major of the 15th or King’s Hussars.  In 1825, he married Jane, daughter and sole heiress of John Jobson, Esq., an opulent Scottish merchant, with which lady, report affirmed at the time, Major Scott received a fortune of 60,000_l_.  The estate of Abbotsford was also settled by Sir Walter upon the young pair; but, as the owner is stated not to have been at this time in a state of solvency, though he thought himself so, and his estate now proves to be encumbered with heavy debts, the deed of entail, of course, becomes invalid, and the paternal property must be sold by the creditors of the estate.  There is, however, ample reason to hope that such a step will be averted, by the gratitude of the public, and that Abbotsford will be preserved for the family.  The younger son, Charles, who is, we believe, a junior clerk in the Foreign Office, is unmarried; as is the younger daughter, Anne.  The death of Lady Scott occurred May 15, 1826.  Mrs. Lockhart’s children are as yet the only descendants of Sir Walter in the second generation.

PORTRAITS.

The reader may be somewhat familiar with the personal appearance of Sir Walter Scott, through the several portraits which have from time to time been painted and engraved of the illustrious Baronet.  His height is stated at upwards of six feet; and his frame was strongly knit, and compactly built.  His right leg was shrunk from his boyhood, and required support by a staff.  Mr. Cunningham describes the personal habits of Sir Walter with his usual characteristic force:  “his arms were strong and sinewy;