cheerful; and to have been the intimate associate of Walter Scott, John Leyden, James Grahame, Robert Lundie, was of itself a proof not merely of his intellectual superiority, but of what is more estimable, of his moral worth. He was a dutiful son, brother, husband, father, and friend; and the affectionate qualities of his nature will be long remembered by those who moved within the circles of his friends or his friendships.” On the death of James Ballantyne his trustees examined his repositories in the printing-office, and found a number of fragmentary portions of the manuscripts of the novels, as well as numerous proof-sheets with corrections, and several manuscripts of the later novels which had been overlooked. These fragmentary leaves and proof-sheets remained in possession of the trustees till James Ballantyne’s son came of age; and the latter, on formally taking up his position at the printing-office, presented some of them to friends as memorials—among others, the MS. of “Old Mortality” was presented to Mr. (afterwards Sir) John Cowan of Beeslack. The state of the business, however, led a few years after to sequestration, and the rest of the Scott relics, as well as James Ballantyne’s library, were sold for behoof of the estate by Mr. Dowell of Edinburgh, in May 1848. Among the lots sold at this time were the MS. of the “Black Dwarf,” and the author’s proofs of the “Life of Napoleon” (nine vols.), “Woodstock,” “Nigel,” “Quentin Durward,” “Ivanhoe,” “Peveril,” &c., as well as the author’s interleaved copy, with many notes, of the “Letters on Demonology,” &c., realising altogether £121, 13s. 6d. These proof-sheets contained the notes and letters which passed between the author and the printer, as well as the author’s corrections and additions during the progress of the books through the press. The suggestions and remarks of Ballantyne are many, and occasionally curious; and Sir Walter appears frequently to have adopted the advice of his friend, who for his occasional strictures was sometimes playfully designated “Tom Telltruth.” “The proof-sheets of ‘Redgauntlet’ exist,” says Mr. Lang in his Introduction to that novel, “and show some noteworthy points, as we see Mr. James Ballantyne’s suggestions, Scott’s corrections, and an occasional aside to Ballantyne.... James objects to the mixture of ‘thou’ and ‘you’ in Fairford’s letter, but Scott does not make any change.... Ballantyne rather timidly suggests that Green Mantle at the fishers’ dance reminds him of Di Vernon, so Scott slightly modifies her cavalier tone. James is scandalised at the mention of young advocates as ‘boys.’ Scott writes, ‘Aye, aye!’” The printer makes a “useful suggestion, which Scott accepts, when Alan reads the wrong letter in the trial.”