The King Over The Water: Or The Marriage Of Mr. Melancholy is a novel written by Justin Huntly McCarthy in 1911. The story revolves around the character of Mr. Melancholy, who is a young Englishman with a deep sense of melancholy and a desire to escape his mundane life. He travels to Scotland and becomes involved in the Jacobite cause, which seeks to restore the exiled Stuart dynasty to the British throne. Mr. Melancholy falls in love with the beautiful...