HARVARD

COLLEGE

June 9, 1941

LIBRARY

mis Theodore W. Perchards

mu

"I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.

BURTON.

ΤΟ

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

THIS WORK

IS DEDICATED

IN TESTIMONY OF THE ADMIRATION AND AFFECTION

OF

THE AUTHOR.