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 1869, 8vo; a copy of this, with copious manuscript notes by the author, is in the British Museum Library. 5. ‘Gems of French Art: a Series of Carbon-photographs from the Pictures of Eminent Modern Artists, with Remarks on the Works selected and an Essay on the French School,’ London, 1871, 4to. 6–7. Similar works on modern Belgian and modern German art followed in 1872 and 1873. 8. ‘The British School of Sculpture, illustrated by twenty Engravings from the Finest Works of Deceased Masters of the Art, and fifty Woodcuts: with a preliminary Essay and Notices of the Artists,’ London, 1872, 8vo. 9. ‘Our British Landscape Painters, from Samuel Scott to David Cox … with a Preliminary Essay and Biographical Notices,’ London, 1872, 4to. 10. ‘Murillo and the Spanish School of Painting: fifteen Engravings in Steel and nineteen on Wood; with an Account of the School and its Great Masters,’ London, 1873. 11. ‘The Little Masters (Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Sebald Beham, &c.),’ London, 1879, 8vo; this appeared in the ‘Series of Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists;’ it was republished in 1880. 12. ‘A Descriptive Catalogue of Engravings, brought together with a view to illustrate the Art of Engraving on Copper and Wood from the Florentine Niello Workers in the Fifteenth Century to that of William Blake,’ privately printed, London, 1880, 4to. Scott also edited a series of editions of the works of English poets, with more or less elaborate memoirs. The more important are: Keats's ‘Poetical Works,’ 1873, 8vo, four editions; L. E. Landon's ‘Poetical Works,’ 1873, 8vo, 2 edits.; Byron's ‘Poetical Works,’ 1874, 8vo, 4 edits.; Coleridge's ‘Poetical Works’ (illustrated), 1874, 8vo, 4 edits.; Shelley's ‘Poetical Works,’ 1874, 8vo, 2 edits.; Shakespeare's ‘Works,’ 1875, 8vo; Scott's ‘Poetical Works,’ 1877, 8vo, 4 edits.

 SCOTTOW, JOSHUA (1618–1693), colonist, seems to have come of a Suffolk family, and to have been born in England in 1618. He went out to Massachusetts with his widowed mother, Thomasina Scottow, about 1634. He was admitted a member of the ‘old church’ at Boston on 19 March 1639, and allotted building land at Muddy River, or Brookline, the same year; he also owned property at Scarborough (in Maine). He became a shipowner and merchant of repute in Boston. His name (usually with ‘captain’ prefixed) frequently occurs in connection with municipal matters. In 1665 he was summoned, along with the governor and company of Massachusetts, in respect of some injury done to the ship Oleron. He was a pillar of his church, and prominent in its meetings for prayer. Sewall records ‘a brave shower of rain while Captain Scottow was praying after much drought.’ He died on 20 Jan. 1693 (, Diary).

Scottow married about 1643, and apparently his wife and four children survived him. One of his daughters married Thomas Savage, from whom descended James Savage (1767–1845) [q. v.], the antiquary.

Scottow was the author of some rare pamphlets: 1. ‘Old Men's Tears for their own Declensions mixed with fears of their and posterities further falling off from New England's Primitive Constitution. Published by some of Boston's old Planters and some other,’ Boston, 1691; in this he directly attributes the losses of New England by disease and Indian raids to visitation for the sins of the public. 2. ‘A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusetts Colony, anno 1628, with the Lord's signal presence the first thirty years,’ Boston, 1694; reprinted in ‘Massachusetts Historical Records’ (4th ser. iv. 279 sq.).

 SCOTUS or, JOHN (fl. 850), philosopher, was, as his first surname shows, of Irish origin; and the fact is expressly stated by Prudentius, bishop of Troyes (‘De Prædestinatione contra Ioannem Scotum,’ xiv., in Patrol. Lat. cxv. 1194 A). The supposition that he was a native of Scotland is altogether contrary to the usage of the word ‘Scotus’ at the time. To contemporaries he was always known as Joannes Scotus or ‘Scotigena.’ His alternative surname was used only as a literary pseudonym in the titles of his versions of Dionysius the Areopagite; and this, as it is found in the oldest manuscripts, was not Erigena, but Eriugena or Ierugena. That John formed it on the model of Grajugena has been inferred from the lines in which he celebrates his favourite author, St. Maximus:

The first element in the name is doubtless derived from Érin (accus. Érinn): the alternative form suggests ἱερός, since Ireland was