Produced by Brian Sogard, storm and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Notes: Obvious mistakes and punctuation errors have been corrected, but inconsistent spelling, punctuation and hyphenation has been retained. At the end of the text there is a list of the corrections that were made. Italic text is represented by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. The footnotes in the introduction have been moved to the end of their respective paragraphs, and have been renumbered for clarity.] The Lake English Classics _REVISED EDITION WITH HELPS TO STUDY_ THE LADY OF THE LAKE BY SIR WALTER SCOTT EDITED FOR SCHOOL USE BY WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY SOMETIME ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY CHICAGO ATLANTA NEW YORK Copyright 1899, 1919 By Scott, Foresman and Company 292.46 [Illustration: THE SCENE OF "THE LADY OF THE LAKE"] CONTENTS PAGE Map 6 Introduction I. Life of Scott 9 II. Scott's Place in the Romantic Movement 39 III. The Lady of the Lake Historical Setting 46 General Criticism and Analysis 48 Text 59 Notes 251 Appendix Helps to Study 265 Theme Subjects 269 Selections for Class Reading 270 Classes of Poetry 271 I. LIFE OF SCOTT I