ECLECTIC ENGLISH CLASSICS
SCOTT’S
LADY OF THE LAKE
EDITED BY
HELEN E. BACON
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, WADLEIGH HIGH SCHOOL
NEW YORK CITY
NEW YORK - CINCINNATI - CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
Copyright, 1893 and 1910, by
American Book Company
Lady of Lake
W. P. 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| CANTO FIRST. |
| CANTO SECOND. |
| CANTO THIRD. |
| CANTO FOURTH. |
| CANTO FIFTH. |
| CANTO SIXTH. |
| GLOSSARY. |
| SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY. |
| SPECIAL STUDIES IN THE CANTOS. |
INTRODUCTION.
Walter Scott, the ninth of a family of twelve children, was born atEdinburgh in August, 1771. His first consciousness of existence datedfrom the time when he was sent, a lame, delicate child, to Sandyknowe,the residence of his paternal grandfather. Here he “was often carriedout and laid down beside the old shepherd among the crags or rocksround which he fed his sheep.” If Scott’s genius was late in flowering,who can say that the budding did not begin in that early, closecompanionship with the Highland country which he was to reproduce sovividly in his verse and fiction?
With strength increased by open-air life, although still slightly lame,we find him later a sturdy, active, not over-studious boy at school atEdinburgh and Kelso, and at fifteen beginning in his father’s officethe legal studies which he continued at the university.
Referring to the time after leaving the high school, when he made theacquaintance of Tasso’s “Jerusalem Delivered,” Percy’s “Reliques,”and the best works of English fiction, Scott says, “To this period Ican trace distinctly the