SOURCE: A review of Chronicles of the Canongate, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. XXII, November, 1827, pp. 556-70.
In the following excerpt from a review that reprinted "The Highland Widow" almost in its entirety, Wilson admires the introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate and comments on the linguistic style of the tales.
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