Chronicles of the Canongate
Walter Scott Chronicles of the Canongate Table of Contents
Chronicles of the Canongate...... 1 Walter Scott...... 1 INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE...... 1 CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE −INTRODUCTORY...... 20 CHAPTER I. MR. CHRYSTAL CROFTANGRY'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF...... 20 CHAPTER II. IN WHICH MR. CROFTANGRY CONTINUES HIS STORY...... 26 CHAPTER III. MR. CROFTANGRY, INTER ALIA, REVISITS GLENTANNER...... 30 CHAPTER IV. MR. CROFTANGRY BIDS ADIEU TO CLYDESDALE...... 36 CHAPTER V. MR. CROFTANGRY SETTLES IN THE CANONGATE...... 41 CHAPTER VI. MR. CROFTANGRY'S ACCOUNT OF MRS. BETHUNE BALIOL...... 48 CHAPTER VII. MRS. BALIOL ASSISTS MR. CROFTANGRY IN HIS LITERARY SPECULATIONS...... 53 THE HIGHLAND WIDOW...... 56 CHAPTER I...... 56 CHAPTER II...... 61 CHAPTER III...... 65 CHAPTER IV...... 67 CHAPTER V...... 73 THE TWO DROVERS...... 91 CHAPTER I...... 91 CHAPTER II...... 95 NOTES...... 106
i Chronicles of the Canongate
Walter Scott
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• INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. • CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE INTRODUCTORY.
• CHAPTER I. MR. CHRYSTAL CROFTANGRY'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF. • CHAPTER II. IN WHICH MR. CROFTANGRY CONTINUES HIS STORY. • CHAPTER III. MR. CROFTANGRY, INTER ALIA, REVISITS GLENTANNER. • CHAPTER IV. MR. CROFTANGRY BIDS ADIEU TO CLYDESDALE. • CHAPTER V. MR. CROFTANGRY SETTLES IN THE CANONGATE. • CHAPTER VI. MR. CROFTANGRY'S ACCOUNT OF MRS. BETHUNE BALIOL. • CHAPTER VII. MRS. BALIOL ASSISTS MR. CROFTANGRY IN HIS LITERARY SPECULATIONS.
• THE HIGHLAND WIDOW
• CHAPTER I. • CHAPTER II. • CHAPTER III. • CHAPTER IV. • CHAPTER V.
• THE TWO DROVERS.
• CHAPTER I. • CHAPTER II.
• NOTES.
INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE.
The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the NOMINIS UMBRA of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, entitled The Highland Widow, The Two Drovers, and The Surgeon's Daughter. In the present volume the two first named of these pieces are included, together with three detached stories which appeared the year after, in the elegant compilation called The Keepsake. The Surgeon's Daughter it is thought better to defer until a succeeding volume, than to