ABSTRACT
First published in Blackwood’s, XLVII, April 1840, pp. 553–74. Reprinted in F, VIII, Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers (1854), pp. 61–121. Revised text, carrying a few variants from F, in SGG, III, Miscellanies, Chiefly Narrative (1854), pp. 290–346. There are two manuscripts as follows:
