Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by

MARGARET ANDREWS ALLEN,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

ELECTROTYPED BY J. S. CUSHING & Co., Boston.

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

THE text of the poem has been carefully compared with various editions of the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," the earliest consulted being that of 1813. The notes are chiefly abridged from Scott's own, such only being used as are necessary to enable the reader to enjoy the poem understandingly.

The map gives the principal localities mentioned in the poem, with their relation to the more important cities, such as Edinburgh and Carlisle, and the adjacent counties of England.