to the effect desired on public feeling all this author s works has excited the interest a belief that the well known talents of walter scott were in tlie previous of the author whoever he be the value of the copy right and by the of its merits entertained by the asia reasonable to conclude by tliat of the critics � all these circumstances had raised curiosity to the very of breathless expectation it was no doubt to � this large demand of interest a vigorous deep and extensive reading of men and manners of a towering commanding and every to the purpose could alone have in a conscious and ability to meet iti but notwithstanding the local application of some of the incidents the recourse had occasionally to a dialect now fast into and though appropriate enough in the scenes introduced yet scarcely to u majority of renders here the of rob has exceeded that of all and left merits to be settled with the most of of the author of such a work wc are naturally desirous to know the name and condition and it in but reasonable to endeavour to discover to whom we arc under obligation for instruction amusement on this point curiosity remains for in the advertisement to the reader wc recognize the same desire of lo expressed in the later of and which and now repeated i h � l review the thai some object exist to influence mind t i ic to tliis object wc have reason to believe i altogether with tlie merits of the work for there ia tn it as well u the other pi of the � writer every thing to admire and nothing morally or to blame neither are there can displeasure nor as in the of provoke personal but like mm u � the of the following might shelter the tint ever writer is like the celebrated only a and thai u h an apparition of a more m� well n much lie be bound to plead to charge ot in appearing again the about two years in work called he he was for the last in his present capacity as if to shift an that might be inconvenient if attach in the main the humble character of � i seems purposely assumed and in support of this disguise the credit of the appears divided with a supposed unknown its it is now about six since the author through the medium his respectable ed a parcel of papers containing outlines of this narrative with a permission or with � highly terms thai they might be given to the with such alterations ss be found suitable these were of m numerous that besides the of names and of too much to reality the work may in a great be new written several have probably crept in during course of these changes and the for the chapters have been without to date of the ts for these of course the is some others occurred in the materials hut they ai e of little id point of minute accuracy it be that the te over the i near the hamlet of had not an ago it does not become the to be ihe to out and he takes this public to thank ihe unknown � to reader will owe ihe of any amusement which he may derive from the have quoted this introduction with a view to show the displayed in leading the of the reader to some uncertain point where it is left to rest and diverted from too n� e a gaze at the nearer i as also the desire to have to himself but to the unknown and correspondent the principal share of die work motives to this ji is believed are too to its probability h tale of is unfolded in n narrative of frank the son of an eminent merchant in the city of london addressed to friend ill an a ct � and adventures a most of life his father a true of the old school h id placed the in a counting ni and at it wm usual formerly to send s firm for some years with a view to gain experience of foreign transactions acquire habits frank o have been one of those e minds are powerfully attracted by generous objects of pursuit till they lose sight of views and lor i in their pa v� ion for the of what is in tlie language of the exchange the chance accordingly the of the parent arc the of the arc deserted for the pages of the muse and the promised successor to a concern adds one to many living instances of the folly of for the of a child frank is summoned to answer for his don compliance a of inquiry is held and to no good purpose r n is when nature and genius arc opposed were of the and the of his head frank i to the mansion of an uncle in the north in the hope that time and reflection with the fi ar of in favour of one of his cousins might work that revolution in opinion which s dusky atmosphere is calculated to inspire the j rendered as as one on along a u line of road could be supposed to find it company he falls in with tlie tavern scene and the character of prudence and intelligence displayed in one of the guests at the s table are si of and entertaining description attention is kept alive throughout � the sketches seem rather histories of facts of the they who have travelled much and become acquainted with those scenes will pronounce the to be most striking as the young man drew near to the mansion of the he thus describes the he had entered and never was description more more faithfully or more sweetly conveyed approached my north for such i esteemed it with which ind 