THE MONASTERY. A ROMANCE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “WAVERLEY," IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: SOLD BY J. MURRAY, BOOKSELLER, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1821. INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE FROM CAPTAIN CLUTTERBUCK, OF HIS MAJESTY'S - REGIMENT OF INFANTRY, TO THE AUTHOR OF “WAVERLEY." SIR, ALTHOUGH I do not pretend to the pleasure of your personal acquaintance, like many who I believe to be equally strangers to you, I am nevertheless interested in your publications, and desire their continuance;-not that I pretend to much taste in fictitious composition, or that I'am apt to be interested in your grave scenes, or amused by those which are meant to be lively. I will not disguise from you, that I have yawned over the last interview of MacIvor and his sister, and fell fairly asleep while the schoolmaster was reading the humours of Dandie Dinmont. You see, sir, that I scorn to solicit your favour in a way to which you are no stranger. If the papers I enclose you are |