웨이벌리

Waverley

OR ’TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE

by Sir Walter Scott, BART.

With Introductory Essay and Notes

By ANDREW LANG

With Illustrations

1893

THIS NEW EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS IS DEDICATED TO THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD AND HER CHILDREN,

Walter, Mary, Michael, Alice, Malcolm, Margaret and Herbert

GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF THE AUTHOR, BY THE PUBLISHERS

TO THE KING’S MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY.

SIRE,

The Author of this collection of Works of Fiction would not have presumed to solicit for them your Majesty’s august patronage, were it not that the perusal has been supposed in some instances to have succeeded in amusing hours of relaxation, or relieving those of languor, pain, or anxiety, and therefore must have so far aided the warmest wish of your Majesty’s heart, by contributing in however small a degree to the happiness of your people.

They are therefore humbly dedicated to your Majesty, agreeably to your gracious permission, by

Your Majesty’s Dutiful Subject,

WALTER SCOTT.

ABBOTSFORD, 1_st January_, 1829.

Contents

EDITOR’S NOTE ADVERTISEMENT GENERAL PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF WAVERLEY APPENDIX No. I. Fragment of a Romance which was to have been entitled Thomas the Rhymer. Chapter I. No. II. Conclusion of Mr. Strutt’s Romance of Queen-Hoo Hall. Chapter IV. Chapter V. No. III. Anecdote of School Days EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION TO WAVERLEY INTRODUCTION PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION