Identifier: fairmaidofpertho22scot (find matches)
Title: The fair maid of Perth, or, Saint Valentine's Day
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
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Publisher: London New York : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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CJ?^e^yC^07V&, Page 3 4 8 S3I5 7X* T^r Maid of Perth or Saint Valentines Day By Sir Walter Scott, Bart Thomas Nelson and Sons London, Edinburgh, and Neiv York1906 PREFACE. ♦ ♦ IN continuing the lucubrations of Chrystal Croftangry, itoccurred that, although the press had of late yearsteemed with works of various descriptions concerning theScottish Gael, no attempt had hitherto been made to sketchtheir manners as these might be supposed to have existed atthe period when the Statute-book, as well as the page of thechronicler, begins to present constant evidence of the diffi-culties to which the crown was exposed—while the haughtyHouse of Douglas all but overbalanced its authority on theSouthern border, and the North was at the same time tornin pieces by the yet untamed savageness of the Highlandraces, and the daring loftiness to which some of the remoterchieftains still carried their pretensions. The well-authenti-cated fact of two powerful clans having deputed each thirtychampfairmaidofpertho22scot

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