NORMAN MACLEOD FAMOUS SCOTS SERIES _The following Volumes are now ready_-- THOMAS CARLYLE. By HECTOR C. MACPHERSON ALLAN RAMSAY. By OLIPHANT SMEATON HUGH MILLER. By W. KEITH LEASK JOHN KNOX. By A. TAYLOR INNES ROBERT BURNS. By GABRIEL SETOUN THE BALLADISTS. By JOHN GEDDIE RICHARD CAMERON. By Professor HERKLESS SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON. By EVE BLANTYRE SIMPSON THOMAS CHALMERS. By Professor W. GARDEN BLAIKIE JAMES BOSWELL. By W. KEITH LEASK TOBIAS SMOLLETT. By OLIPHANT SMEATON FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. By G. W. T. OMOND THE BLACKWOOD GROUP. By SIR GEORGE DOUGLAS NORMAN MACLEOD. By JOHN WELLWOOD [Illustration: PAGE DECORATIONS] NORMAN MACLEOD BY JOHN WELLWOOD FAMOUS SCOTS: SERIES PUBLISHED BY OLIPHANT ANDERSON & FERRIER·EDINBURGH AND LONDON The designs and ornaments of this volume are by Mr. Joseph Brown, and the printing from the press of Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh. NOTE My cordial gratitude is due to Mr. William Isbister--’best of smokers’--for allowing me (and that with so good a spirit) to quote from the _Memoir of Norman Macleod_. The present piece will not have been written in vain, as the saying is, if it sends readers to that entertaining quarry. I have also to thank Mr. J. C. Erskine, Hope Street, Glasgow (’Be calm, Erskine’), for furnishing me with certain letters never before published, specimens of which will be found in the text. The extracts from the Queen’s books are made with Her Majesty’s gracious permission. J. W. MANSE OF DRAINIE, _April_ 1897. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 9 CHAPTER I DESCENT--BOYHOOD--STUDENT YEARS 11 CHAPTER II MINISTER OF LOUDOUN--NON-INTRUSION CONTROVERSY 28 CHAPTER III AFTER THE BATTLE--MINISTER OF DALKEITH--EMBASSIES--EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE--DEATH OF JOHN MACINTOSH 47 CHAPTER IV THE BARONY PARISH--MACLEOD AS PASTOR--AS PREACHER--HIS SYMPATHY--POSITION IN GLASGOW 65 CHAPTER V EDITOR AND AUTHOR 85 CHAPTER VI BALMORAL 102 CHAPTER VII TRAVELS--BROAD CHURCH MOVEMENTS 108 CHAPTER VIII INDIA--THE APEX--THE END 125