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Title: St. Ronan's Well
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Release Date: March 6, 2007 [EBook #20749]
Language: English
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[Illustration]
_Standard Edition_
St. Ronan's Well
By
Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
[Illustration]
With Introductory Essay and Notes
by Andrew Lang
_Illustrated_
Dana Estes and Company
Publishers ... Boston
The Standard Edition
of the Novels and Poems of Sir Walter Scott. Limited to one thousand
numbered and registered sets, of which this is
No. 835
_Copyright, 1894._
BY ESTES AND LAURIAT
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ST. RONAN'S WELL
VOLUME I.
PAGE
Meg Dods (p. 13) _Frontispiece_
The Meeting in the Wood 137
Preparing for the Duel 198
* * * * *
VOLUME II.
Reappearance of Tyrrel 127
Clara entering Tyrrel's Room 307
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
TO
ST. RONAN'S WELL.
"'St. Ronan's Well' is not so much my favourite as certain of its
predecessors," Lady Louisa Stuart wrote to Scott on March 26, 1824. "Yet
still I see the author's hand in it, _et c'est tout dire_. Meg Dods, the
meeting" (vol. i. chap. ix.), "and the last scene between Clara and her
brother, are marked with the true stamp, not to be matched or mistaken.
Is the Siege of Ptolemais really on the anvil?" she goes on, speaking of
the projected Crusading Tales, and obviously anxious to part company
with "St. Ronan's Well." All judgments have not agreed with Lady
Louisa's. There is a literary legend or fable according to which a
number of distinguished men, all admirers of Scott, wrote down
separately the na
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