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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