I only add that, should the pleasure of the tourist be enhanced by a perusal of any of the following tales connected with the Lake district, it will confer a still greater pleasure on the writer, even than that of culling them, from time to time, during his visits to those nooks hallowed by poetry, or consecrated by history, which a frequent residence in this locality has afforded him the opportunity of exploring. They are offered to the lover of nature, and to the admirer of the picturesque, with the hope that, whilst delighting in nature's sublimities, which are self-evident, proclaiming, at every step, their Divine original, he may not pass by unheeded some of the remarkable spots of history or romance without feeling interested in their associations. CONTENTS. HELWISE; OR, THE ILL-FATED LOVERS: PAGE A TALE OF MUNCASTER HALL, 13 ST. HERBERT, THE HERMIT OF DERWENTWATER, 22 THE LOVERS' VOWS: A TALE OF FURNESS ABBEY, 28 THE STONE OF WALLOW CRAG; OR, THE POET OF KENTMERE, 30 THE SKULLS OF CALGARTH. A LEGEND OF WINDERMERE LAKE, 43 THE LUCK OF EDEN HALL. A TALE OF THE MUSGRAVES, 45 THE MAID OF HARDRA SCAR; OR, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, 50 THE TWO BROTHERS. A TALE OF ENNERDALE, 52 EMMA; OR, THE MURDERED MAID. A TRAGEDY OF THE LAKE DISTRICT, 68 ASSOCIATIONS OF CARLISLE: HISTORICAL, POETICAL, AND ROMANTIC, 72 THE DRUIDS' SACRIFICE. A LEGEND OF KESWICK, 102 THE HEIGHTS OF HELVELLYN; OR, THE UNFORTUNATE TOURIST, 111 THE REGATTA; OR, THE LOVERS OF DERWENTWATER, 117 THE SHEPHERD OF GREEN-HEAD GHYLL. A TALE OF GRASMERE VALE, 124 THE INSCRIBED ROCKS OF WINDERMERE. 138 EDGAR, THE LORD OF ENNERDALE. A TRADITION OF WOTOBANK, NEAR EGREMONT, 140 LADY EVA AND THE GIANT. A LEGEND OF YEWDALE, 151 KIRKBY LONSDALE BRIDGE. A LEGEND, 156 THE SPECTRE ARMY. A WEIRD TALE OF SOUTRA FELL, 160 RUSTIC POETS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT. JOHN OLDLAND AND JAMIE MUCKELT, 173 THE HART'S-HORN TREE. A TRADITION OF PENRITH, 177 THE QUAKERESS BRIDE. A TALE OF THE MOUNTAINS, 178