SIR
WILLIAM
WALLACE
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.
- SIR WALTER SCOTT. By Professor Saintsbury.
- ROBERT FERGUSSON. By A. B. Grosart.
- MUNGO PARK. By T. Banks Maclachlan.
- DAVID HUME. By Professor Calderwood.
- WILLIAM DUNBAR. By Oliphant Smeaton.
- SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. By Professor Murison.
SIR
WILLIAM
WALLACE
WILLIAM
WALLACE
BY
A. F.
MURISON
A. F.
MURISON
FAMOUS
SCOTS
SERIES
PUBLISHED BY
CHARLES
SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK
TO
THE MEMORY OF
THE COMRADES AND HELPERS
OF
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE
MEN OR WOMEN
DISTINGUISHED OBSCURE OR NAMELESS
Quod de re publica non desperassent
'My son, I tell thee soothfastlie,
No gift is like to Libertie;
Then never live in slaverie.'
No gift is like to Libertie;
Then never live in slaverie.'
'For Freedom's battle, once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding Sire to Son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.'
Bequeath'd by bleeding Sire to Son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.'
PREFACE
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