whilst another, showing a rudely-carved sword, has the words: 'Up with ye Sutors of Selkyrke.' Over the great bay-window of the Library, the first of the principal rooms facing the Tweed, is a lintel from the Common Hall of the old Edinburgh College, with a quotation from Seneca: 'Virtus Rectorem Ducemque Desiderat; Vitia--sine--Magistro Discuntur.' Anno 1616. Next the Library is the Drawing-Room, then the Armoury, and Dining-Room, with the motto: 'SO LI DEO GLORIA.' And, lastly, the Breakfast Parlour, once Scott's sanctum, in which Lockhart died. Now turn we to the interior. Be it at once said that Mrs. Maxwell Scott's excellent little 'Catalogue of the Armour and Antiquities at Abbotsford' is absolutely indispensable. A previous study of its pages will enable the visitor to know exactly how he is to be piloted, and the whereabouts of the 'gabions' he is most bent on seeing. The attendants are always ready to point out objects of special interest to individuals, and there need be no hesitancy to ask questions. For the sake of convenience, we follow the order which has been in force for years. All we plead for in the public interest is a little more leisure, if that be possible, for seeing what is to be seen. Visitors are admitted first into what is surely the _sanctum sanctorum_ of the place-- THE STUDY. This is a fair-sized apartment, 20 feet long, 14 feet broad, and 16 feet high, lighted by a large window which looks out to the courtyard. Everything is practically as Scott left it. Oaken bookcases line the walls, and hardly a volume (it is chiefly a reference library) has been altered. A light gallery, graced with ample book-shelves, runs round three sides of the room, opening out on a private staircase, by which the 'inhabitant of the study,' as the 'Reliquiæ' puts it, 'if unwilling to be surprised by visitors, may make his retreat, a facility which he has sometimes found extremely convenient.' The Desk is, of course, the chief object of interest. Modelled from one at Rokeby (see 'Letters,' vol. i., p. 180), it is thus described by Lockhart as he first saw it in the 'den' at Castle Street in 1818: