LONGMANS' ENGLISH CLASSICS EDITED BY GEORGE RICE CARPENTER, A.B. FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SIR WALTER SCOTT IVANHOE LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK LIBRARY COPYRIGHT, 1897 BY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. All rights reserved FIRST EDITION, MAY, 1897 MARCH, 1902, DECEMBER, 1902, JANUARY, 1904 DECEMBER, 1910, SEPTEMBER, 1911 MAY, 1914, MAY, 1915 FEBRUARY, 1916 PREFACE THE text of "Ivanhoe " here given is a reprint of the so-called 1829 edition, the " opus magnum " to which Scott's "Journal" frequently refers, and which was about three years in passing through the press. It contains the author's latest corrections. As regards punctuation-a point in which Scott's manuscripts were notably careless -a few changes have been made, and some obvious slips of the pen have been pointed out in the foot-notes, though allowed to stand unaltered in the text. The frequent biblical allusions in "Ivanhoe" will account, in part, for the number of the notes. Scott's Preface to the original edition, and his "Introduction to Ivanhoe," dated September 1, 1830, for the final edition, are printed in the Appendix. In the Introduction, the Editor has taken the liberty of incorporating a single paragraph from his Introduction to "Woodstock," in this series. The Chronological Table gives the important dates in the life of Scott, and a complete list of his works. It is hoped that every teacher using this edition will send his pupils directly to one of the lives of Scott mentioned in the Bibliography, and above all to Lockhart. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, April, 1897. B. P. |