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Fair Maid of Perth or St. Valentine's Day
Fair Maid of Perth or St Valentine's Day Author:Walter, Sir Scott Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: John C. Nimmo Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary History / Medieval Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Social Classes Notes: This is a black and whi... more »te OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TO ufoc muui'y dBost Gracious TXe 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, agrecaldy to your gracious permission, by Your Majesty's Dutiful Subject, WALTER SCOTT. Abbotsfokd, ist January, tSzq. EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH. Between "Woodstock" and "The Fair Maid of Perth" came the miscellany of stories called "Chronicles of the Canongate." In this edition "The Fair Maid" occupies the place chronologically held by the shorter tales. These, says Lockhart, " were not received with exceeding favour at the time," and, in spite of admirable sketches of Scottish scenes and characters, touches almost autobiographical, the work was assuredly not what Sir Walter had been accustomed to produce. He was disappointed, Lockhart says, and inclined to lie fallow, but Cadell, now his publisher, and Ballantyne urged him to go on. He wrote "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror" and "The Laird's Jock," but for these Cadell did not car...« less