OF THE CANONGATE. THE HIGHLAND WIDOW.-THE TWO DROVERS. SOLD ALSO BY THEOPHILE BARROIS, JUN., RUE RICHELIEU; TRUCHY, BOULEVARD 1832. THE preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito, were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, -consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, entitled "The Highland Widow,' "The Two Drovers," and "The Surgeon's Daughter." In the present volume these three pieces are included, together with three detached stories, which appeared the year after in the elegant compilation called "The Keepsake." I have, perhaps, said enough on former occasions of the misfortunes which led to the dropping of that mask under which I had, for a long series of years, enjoyed so large a portion of public favour. Through the success of those literary efforts, I had been enabled to indulge most of the tastes, which a retired a |