[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] 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 VOLUME I. I. INTRODUCTORY II. WAVERLEY HONOUR—A RETROSPECT III. EDUCATION IV. CASTLE-BUILDING V. CHOICE OF A PROFESSION VI. THE ADIEUS OF WAVERLEY VII. A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND VIII. A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IX. MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS X. ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER XI. THE BANQUET XII. REPENTANCE AND A RECONCILIATION XIII. A MORE RATIONAL DAY THAN THE LAST XIV. WAVERLEY BECOMES DOMESTICATED AT TULLY-VEOLAN XV. A CREAGH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES XVI. AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARS XVII. THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER XVIII. WAVERLEY PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY XIX. THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION XX. A HIGHLAND FEAST XXI. THE CHIEFTAIN’S SISTER XXII. HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY XXIII. WAVERLEY CONTINUES AT GLENNAQUOICH XXIV. STAG-HUNT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES XXV. NEWS FROM ENGLAND XXVI. AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT XXVII. UPON THE SAME SUBJECT XXVIII. A LETTER FROM TULLY-VEOLAN XXIX. WAVERLEY’S RECEPTION IN THE LOWLANDS AFTER HIS HIGHLAND TOUR AUTHOR’S NOTES—Volume I. GLOSSARY—Volume I.