As what constitutes the great man is more commonly some extraordinary combination and balance of qualities, than the highest development of any one, so you cannot but here be struck anew by the singular combination in Scott's mind of love for the picturesque and romantic with the plainest common sense,--a delight in heroic excess with the prudential habit of order.

Here the most pleasing order pervades emblems of what men commonly esteem disorder and excess.
Amid the exquisite beauty of the ruins of Dryburgh, I saw with regret that Scott's body rests in almost the only spot that is not green, and cannot well be made so, for the light does not reach it.

That is not a fit couch for him who dressed so many dim and time-worn relics with living green.
Always cheerful and beneficent, Scott seemed to the common eye in like measure prosperous and happy, up to the last years, and the chair in which, under the pressure of the sorrows which led to his death, he was propped up to write when brain and eye and hand refused their aid, the product remaining only as a guide to the speculator as to the workings of the mind in case of insanity or approaching imbecility, would by most persons be viewed as the only saddening relic of his career.

Yet when I recall some passages in the Lady of the Lake, and the Address to his Harp, I cannot doubt that Scott had the full share of bitter in his cup, and feel the tender hope that we do about other gentle and generous guardians and benefactors of our youth, that in a nobler career they are now fulfilling still higher duties with serener mind.

Doubtless too they are trusting in us that we will try to fill their places with kindly deeds, ardent thoughts, nor leave the world, in their absence, "A dim, vast vale of tears, Vacant and desolate." LETTER VII.
NEWCASTLE .-- DESCENT INTO A COAL-MINE .-- YORK WITH ITS MINSTER .-- SHEFFIELD .-- CHATSWORTH .-- WARWICK CASTLE .-- LEAMINGTON AND STRATFORD .-- SHAKESPEARE .-- BIRMINGHAM .-- GEORGE DAWSON .-- JAMES MARTINEAU .-- W.J.