The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE.
SIC ITUR AD ASTRA.
INTRODUCTION. - (1831.)
THE tale of the Surgeon's Daughter formed part of the second series or
Chronicles of the Canongate, published in 1827; but has been separated
from the stories of the Highland Widow, &c., which it originally accompanied, and deferred to the close of this collection, for reasons which printers
and publishers will understand, and which would hardly interest the
general reader.
The Author has nothing to say now in reference to this little Novel, but
that the principal incident on which it turns, was narrated to him one
morning at breakfast by his worthy friend, Mr. Train, of Castle Douglas,
in Galloway, whose kind assistance he has so often had occasion to acknowledge in the course of these prefaces; and that the military friend who is
alluded to as having furnished him with some information as to Eastern
matters, was Colonel James Ferguson of Huntly Burn, one of the sons of
the venerable historian and philosopher of that name-which name he took
the liberty of concealing under its Gaelic form of Mfac-Erries.
ABBOTSFORD, September 1831.
APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION.
[Mr. Train was requested by Sir Walter Scott to give him in wnting the story as
nearly as possible in the shape in which he had told it; but the following narrative,
which he drew up accordingly, did not reach Abbotsford until July 1832 ]
IN the old Stock of Fife, there was not perhaps an individual whose exertions were followed by consequences of such a remarkable nature as those
of Davie Duff, popularly called " The Thane of Fife," who, from a very
humble parentage, rose to fill one of the chairs of the magistracy of his
native burgh. By industry and economy in early life, he obtained the means
of erecting, solely on his own account, one of those ingenious manufactories
for which Fifeshire is justly celebrated- From the day on which the industrious artisan first took his seat at the Council Board, he attended so much
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