“Bonnie Scotland” pleased so many readers that it came to be supplemented by another volume dwelling mainly on the western “Highlands and Islands,” which was illustrated in a different style to match their wilder and mistier features. Such an addition gave the author’s likeness of Scotland a somewhat lop-sided effect; and to balance this list he has prepared a third volume dealing with the trimmer and richer, yet not less picturesque region oftenest visited by strangers--that is, Perthshire and its borders. This is shown to be the _Heart of Scotland_, not only as containing its most famous scenery, but as best blending Highland and Lowland charms, and as having made a focus of the national life and history. Pict and Scot, Celt and Sassenach, king and vassal, mailed baron and plaided chief, cateran and farmer, Jacobite and Hanoverian, gauger and smuggler, Kirk and Secession, here in turn carried on a series of struggles whose incidents should be well known through the _Waverley Novels_. But these famous romances seem too little known to hasty readers of to-day; and some glimpses of Perthshire’s past life may not prove over-familiar, at least to strangers in a county where the author is at home. Contents PAGE I. PERTHSHIRE 1 II. TAYSIDE 20 III. ATHOLL 52 IV. BREADALBANE 80 V. STRATHEARN 104 VI. THE MACGREGORS 134 VII. ROB ROY AND HIS SONS 160 VIII. MENTEITH 182 List of Illustrations 1. The Pass of Killiecrankie _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE 2. A Highland Moor 8 3. A Highland Strath 17 4. Perth from the Slopes of Kinnoull Hill 24 5. Autumn in the Highlands 33 6. Dunkeld and Birnam 40 7. A Highland Cottage 49 8. The Trossachs 56 9. The Falls of Tummel 65 10. The Moor of Rannoch 72 11. The Head of Loch Tay 81 12. The Dochart 88 13. “The Lady of the Woods” 97