Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• THE ANCIENT LEAGUE WITH FRANCE
• Chapter I.
• The Charlemagne and Achaius question settled - The War of Independence - the established quarrel with Scotland and England - Its consequence in the league with France
• Chapter II.
• Personal anecdotes of the Scots immigrants - The Wolf of Badenoch's son - The Albany and Darnley Stewarts - The Hamiltons and Douglases
• Chapter III.
• The other side of the reciprocity - Contrast between the Scot in France and Le Francais en Ecosse - An ambassador snubbed - French chevaliers treated to a Border raid
• Chapter IV.
• The birth of Queen Mary - French writers on her life and character - Her influence on the fate of Europe - Catherine of Medici - Their strife
• Chapter V.
• Relics of the League in Scots habits and practices - The law - The Bonnet Vert and the Dyvour's Habit - The States-General and the Three Estates
• THE SCOT ABROAD
• Chapter I. - The Scholar and the Author
• Justice to Ireland and her monks - John Duns - The Scotists and the Thomists - Hector Boece and the fabulous histories - Buchanan - Thomas Dempster
• Chapter II. - The Soldier
• The Dugald Dalgettys - The divisions at home carried out abroad - #Scotsmen on both sides of the Thirty Years' #War - Monro - Grey - Hepburn - The Leslies
• Chapter III. - The Statesman
• Reputations, living and dead l- Gustavus Adolphus's Secretary-at-War - Sir William Lockhart - Lord Stair - John Law - William Paterson
• Chapter IV. - The Artist
• Glimpses of early art - George Jameson and his contemporaries - Aikman - Hamilton - Allan Ramsay - Martin - Jacob More - Runciman - #Sir Robert Strange - Early architects
• Index