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INTRODUCTION.
The species of publication which has come
to be generally known by the title of _Annual_,
being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped
with numerous engravings, and put forth every
year about Christmas, had flourished for a long
while in Germany, before it was imitated in
this country by an enterprising bookseller, a
German by birth, Mr Ackermann. The rapid
success of his work, as is the custom of the
time, gave birth to a host of rivals, and, among
others, to an Annual styled The Keepsake,
the first volume of which appeared in 1828,
and attracted much notice, chiefly in consequence
of the very uncommon splendour of
its illustrative accompaniments. The expenditure
which the spirited proprietors lavished
on this magnificent volume, is understood to
have been not less than from ten to twelve
thousand pounds sterling!
Various gentlemen of such literary reputation
that any one might think it an honour to be
associated with them, had been announced as
cont . . .
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Walter Scott: The Keepsake Stories
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a machine-readable transcription
Version 1.0: 1993-02-06
The text of the three stories is taken from Waverley Novels, vol. XLI:
'The Highland Widow', published by Archibald Constable and Co,
Westminster, 1896.
The order of the stories in the original is:
Aunt Margaret's Mirror
The Tapestried Chamber
The Laird's Jock
Each story is placed in a separate file, and each file contains the
author's introduction to the story.
The lines of the files follow that of the text, except that
end-of-line hyphenations have been removed. Three misprints have been
removed:
p. ???: extraneous period (Mrs. Swinton)
(Mr and Mrs is set without periods in the text(
p. 328: a double (re- || remain)
p. 344: a missing inner quote (how then shall I ask it?'')
all of which where found in the Mirror.
Special markup:
_ _ indicates italics in the original text
--- indicates an em-dash
<oe> indicates the oe ligature
<c . . .
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DEATH
OF
THE LAIRD'S JOCK.
[The manner in which this trifle was introduced
at the time to Mr. F. M. Reynolds,
editor of The Keepsake of 1828, leaves no
occasion for a preface.]
_August_, 1831.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE KEEPSAKE.
You have asked me, sir, to point out a subject
for the pencil, and I feel the difficulty of complying
with your request; although I am not certainly
unaccustomed to literary composition, or a total
stranger to the stores of history and tradition,
which afford the best copies for the painter's art.
But although _sicut pictura poesis_ is an ancient and
undisputed axiom---although poetry and painting
both address themselves to the same object of exciting
the human imagination, by presenting to it
pleasing or sublime images of ideal scenes; yet
the one conveying itself through the ears to the
understanding, and the other applying itself only
to the eyes, the subjects which are best suite . . .
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INTRODUCTION.
This is another little story, from the Keepsake
of 1828. It was told to me many years
ago, by the late Miss Anna Seward, who,
among other accomplishments that rendered
her an amusing inmate in a country house, had
that of recounting narratives of this sort with
very considerable effect; much greater, indeed,
than any one would be apt to guess from the
style of her written performances. There are
hours and moods when most people are not
displeased to listen to such things; and I have
heard some of the greatest and wisest of my
contemporaries take their share in telling
them.
_August_, 1831.
THE
TAPESTRIED CHAMBER;
or,
THE LADY IN THE SACQUE.
The following narrative is given from the pen, so
far as memory permits, in the same character in
which it was presented to the author's ear; nor
has he claim to further praise, or to be more deeply
censured, than in proportion to the good or bad
j . . .
