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A Key to the Waverley Novels : in Chronological Sequence, with Index I -in r r T^ Iv L\ 10 THE \ VVERLEY NOVELS SPROUL HALL LIBRARY A KEY WAVERLEY NOVELS a OPINIONS OF THE PRESS (A Iphabctkally arranged) ' The entire essence of the stories.' Bedfordshire Mercury. 'A valuable and exceedingly handy little work.' Court Journal. ' We heartily commend this very happy idea.' Ecclesiastical Gazette. 'Another useful work by Mr Grey.' Edinburgh Coiirant. 'An admirable idea carried out with great literary skill. '--Glasgow Herald. ' The plot of each novel is carefully condensed in as few words as possible.' Graphic. ' Very skilfully and attractively epitomised.' Hampshire Telegraph. ' A marvel of compactness.' Harper s Magazine. ' Written in a very attractive manner.' Jersey Express. ' Admirably compiled.' Manchester Courier. ' The plots are clearly set forth.' New York Critic. ' The principal scenes are vividly sketched.' North Wales Guardian. ' Will be welcomed by a large class of readers.' Ontario Chronicle. ' Will be read with interest and advantage.' Oxford Chronicle. ' Gives a lucid outline of the plots.' Oxford and Cambridge Undet- graduates' Journal. '' Very successfully condensed.' People's Journal, Dundee. ' A very careful summary.' St Andrews Gaze tic. ' Gives a very pithy outline of each tale.' School Newspaper. ' Fits into the wards of each story in the smoothest fashion.' SnnJ<iy Times. ' Capitally done.' Tablet. ' Unlocks several historical obscurities.' \Vakeficld Herald. ' A veritable wultum in parvo. Worcestershire Chronicle. A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS IN CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE WITH INDEX OF THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS HENRY GREY FR.B.S., F.Z.S., F.I.INST. AUTHOR OF 'THE CLASSICS FOR THE MILLION* ' A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF ENGLISH LITERATURE ' 'THE PLOTS OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS' 'RESTING WITHOUT RUSTING' 'zoo NOTES' 'SCIENCE NOTES,' 'SIXTY-FIVE YEARS' REMINISCENCES' ETC., ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES L. BOWMAN AND CO. Library 5341 GS PREFACE TFIESE brief sketches of the Historical Novels by Sir Walter Scott, whom Lord Meadowbank eulogised as 'The mighty magician, who has rolled back the current of time, and conjured up before our living senses the men and manners of days which have long since passed away,' are offered to the public with the hope that, to those who have read the Tales (which fill ten thousand closely printed pages, and extend over a period of more than seven hundred years), they may serve as a memento of the principal scenes and char- acters to have as an ; and those who not, appetising foretaste of the intellectual feast in store for them. CON TENTS Date of the Story. I-AGIC 1098. COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS . 1 1187. THE BETROTHED .... .5 1191. THE TALISMAN 9 1194. 'IVANHOE 14 1306. CASTLE DANGEROUS 18 1402. THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH . 22 1468. OUENTIN DURWARD 27 1474. ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN 31 1550. THE MONASTERY . 35 1567. THE ABBOT . .... 39 1575. KENILWORTH 43 1600. DEATH OF THE LAIRD'S JOCK . .48 1604. THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL . .50 1645. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE .... 54 1652. WOODSTOCK .58 1678. PEVERIL OF THE PEAK ... 02 1679. OLD MORTALITY 67 1695. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR ... 71 1700. THE PIRATE 75 1702. MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR 80 viii CONTENTS Date of the Story. PAGE 1706. THE BLACK DWARF ... 82 1715. ROB ROY 86 1736. THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN . 90 1745. WAVERLEY . 94 1763. REDGAUNTLET . 98 1765. GUY MANNERING ... 103 1775. THE HIGHLAND WIDOW .... 107 1780. THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER . 109 1782. THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER . 113 1795. THE Two DROVERS 115 1795. THE ANTIQUARY 117 1812. ST RONAN'S WELL 121 INDEX OF THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS . 125 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS Principal Characters ALEXIUS COMNENUS, Greek MICHAEL AGELASTES, an old Emperor of Constantinople. sage. THE EMPRESS IRENE, his GODFREY DE BOUILLON,^ wife. PETER THE HERMIT, PRINCESS ANNA, their daughter. COUNT BALDWIN, NICEPHORUS BRENNIUS, her COUNT DE VERMANDOIS, husband. BOHEMOND OF ANTIOCH, ASTARTE, PRINCE TANCRED OF OTRANTO, s C ACHII.LES TATIUS, officer of the RAYMOND, COUNT OF Imperial Varangian Guard. TOULOUSE, HEREWARD, an Anglo-Saxon, COUNT ROBERTOF PARIS/ his subaltern. BKENHILDA, Countess of Paris. STEPHANOS CASTOR, a -wrestler. TOXARTIS, a Scythian chieftain. LYSIMACHUS, a designer. AGATHA, afterwards BERTHA, HARPAX, centurion of the city Here-ward's betrothed. guard. DIOGENES, a negro slave. SEBASTES, a recruit in the ZEDEKIAS URSEL, a rival for corps. the throne. NICANOR, commander-in-chiefof DOUBAN, a slave skilled in tlic Greek army. medicine. Zos I M us, Greek patriarch. SYLVAN, an ourang-outang. Greek citizens, courtiers, military officers, seamen, soldiers, priests and slaves. Army of Crusaders. Period, 1098. Localities: Constantinople and Scutari. EIGHT hundred years ago Constantinople then as now unrivalled as regards the beauty of it? situation on the confines of Europe and Asia A 2 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS was threatened by barbarians from the east, and by the Franks from the west. Unable to rely on his Greek subjects to repel their incursions, the emperor was obliged to maintain a body-guard of Varangians, or mercenaries from other nations, of whom the citizens and native soldiers were very jealous. One of these, Hereward, had just been attacked by Sebastes, when Tatius intervened and led him to the palace. Here he was introduced to the imperial family, surrounded by their attend- ants and the Princess was a roll of ; Anna reading history she had written, when her husband entered to announce the approach of the armies composing the first Crusade. Convinced that he was power- less to prevent their advance, the emperor offered them on their the leaders hospitality way ; and, having agreed to acknowledge his sovereignty, the various hosts marched in procession before his assembled army. As Comnenus, however, moved forward to re- ceive the homage of Count Bohemond, his vacant throne was insolently occupied by Count Robert of Paris, who was with difficulty compelled to vacate it, and make his submission. The defiant knight, accompanied by Brenhilda, afterwards met the sage Agelastes, who related the story of an enchanted princess, and decoyed them to his her- mitage overlooking the Bosphorus. Here they were introduced to the empress and her daughter, who, attended by Brennius, came to visit the sage, and were invited to return with them to the palace to be presented to the emperor. At the State banquet which followed, the guests, including Sir COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS 3 Bohemond, were pledged by their royal host, and urged to accept the golden cups they had used. On waking next morning, Count Robert found himself in a dungeon with a tiger, and that Ursel was confined in an adjoining one. Presently an ourang-outang descended through a trap-door, and afterwards Sebastes, both of whom the count had overpowered, when Hereward made his ap- pearance, and undertook to release his Norman adversary. A treasonable conference was meanwhile taking place between Tatius and Agelastes, who had failed in endeavouring to tamper with the Anglo- Saxon the countess had been ; and unwillingly transported by Diogenes to a garden-house for a secret interview with Brennius, whom she chal- lenged to knightly combat in the hearing of her husband. Having hidden the count, Hereward encountered his sweetheart Bertha, who had fol- lowed Brenhilda as her attendant, and then ob- tained an audience of the imperial family, who were discussing recent events, including a plot in which Brennius was concerned for seizing the throne, and received permission to communicate with the Duke de Bouillon. Bertha volunteered to be his messenger, and, at an interview with the council of Crusaders at Scutari, she induced them to promise that fifty knights, each with ten followers, should attend the combat to support their champion. Having made his confession to the Patriarch, while Agelastes was killed by Sylvan as he argued with Brenhilda respecting the existence of the- 4 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS devil, the emperor led his daughter to the cell in which Ursel was confined, with the intention of making him her husband, instead of Brennius. She had, however, been persuaded by her mother to intercede for the traitor, and Ursel was merely placed under the care of Douban to be restored to health after his long imprisonment. Alexius had decided that Brennius should fight the Count of Paris, instead of the countess, and all the prepara- tions for the combat had been made, when the the Crusaders hove in ships conveying sight ; and, after defeating the Greek fleet, they landed in sight of the lists. Brennius, in the meantime, was pardoned, and, in answer to shouts of discontent from the assembled crowd, Ursel was led forth to announce his restoration to liberty and the imperial favour, and the conspiracy was crushed. Hereward then appeared to do battle with Count Robert, and, saved from the knight's axe by Bertha, he joined the Crusaders, obtaining on his return the hand of his betrothed, and, ultimately, a grant of land from William Rufus, adjacent to the New Forest in Hampshire, where he had screened her when a girl from the tusk of a wild boar. THE BETROTHED Principal Characters GWENWYN, Prince of Powys- DAMIAN LACY, his nephew. land. RANALD LACY, their kinsman. BRENGWAN, his -wife. PHILIP GUARINE, Sir Hugo's FATHER EINION, his chaplain. squire. CADWALLON, his principal bard. AMELOT, Damian Lucy's page. JORWORTH AP JEVAN, a mes- RALPH GENVIL, his banner- . senger. bearer. BALDWIN, Archbishop of Canter- WILLIAM TF'LfMM.QCK., a Flemish bury. weaver. SIR RAYMOND BERENGER, of His daughter, ROSE, Eveline's Garde Doloureuse. waiting- maid. His daughter, EVELINE. ERMINGARDE, the Lady of His sister, A BENEDICTINE Baldringham . ABBESS. BERWINE, her housekeeper. FATHER AI.DROVAND, his chap- HUNDWOLF, her steward. lain. SIR GUY MONTHERMER, in DENNIS MOROI.T, his squire. command of the King's troops.
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