-: Notices and anecdotes illustrative of the incidents, characters, and scenery described in the novels and romances of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With a complete glossary for all his works

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The changes in the manners of Scotland that have taken place, from time to time, since the era of William the Conqueror, have been so little noticed, that what knowledge we had of them until the appearance of the Waverley Novels, we owe more to essay writers than to any of the Scottish historians.