Show I I DUELS IN WAVERLEY NOVELS I A Schedule of Sir Walters Com j bats I Jonathan Bourchler In Notes and Queries Quer-ies I As everything connected with these wonderful 1 and evergreen romances Is Interesting f i ds1I1 teresting those of your readers whO like I m bet are loyal subjects of le eel des ronianclers as George Sand calls Sir Walter may like to see the following list I of duels In the Vaverley novels Those where there Is only a challenge but where the parties do not actually fight I have distinguished by an asterisk It may be objected that some In my list are I single combats rather than what we un der tand by duels However this may be I have not included any that take place during an actual battle or In the current of a heady fight such as the Black Knights handtohand encounters with FrontdeBoeuf and De Bracy at Tortiultetone o Bothwells terrible slut glchandcd light with Burley at Drum co When one reads this long list of difWs one C ffcel thankful that there Is i no fear of any oneat least in our own land having his life snuffed out In this wretched wuv now though I believe duels were fought In England so lately as thliOJ If any of your readers should notice any omissions from my list will they kindly point teem outs Wavcriey The Baron and ilmawhap pie VaverIey and Fergus Maclvor Guy Manncring Colonel Mnnnering and Vanbeest Brown Bertram in India The Antiquarj Lovcl and Captain McIntyre Mc-Intyre Rob RoyFrank Osbaldistono and his cousin Rashlelgh In Glasgow Thorn I rlf Osbaldlstone was killed In a duel with a gentleman of the Northumbrian border to the full as fierce and intractable intract-able as himself v The Bride of Lammermoor Ravens wood and Btcklaw Ravenswood and Colonel Ashton Colonel Ashton was finally slain jn a duel In Flanders the details of which are not stated > Ivanhoe Ivanhoe and the Templar I The Monastery a t > trt Gicndlnnlng and Sir 1iercle Shafton I I Kenllworth Pressman and arney I Tressllian and too Earl of Leicester tee I j Tho Fortunes of Nigel Glenvarloch and I Lord lalsrarno I Peveril of the Peak Slr Geoffrey Pev I I erll and Major Bndsenorth I Sts Ronans Well r Tyrrcl and Sir Bingo BInks Mowbray and Lord Etherin ton Redgauntlet ledgauntlet and Lord j not named This quarrel was 1 southered as soon as begun The Talsmz Sir Kenneth and the Emir Sir Kenneth and Conrade of Mont I serrat Woodstock Louis Kemeguy Charles II and Colonel Bverard The same later lnT the story The ttY Maid of PerthHal of the Wrnd and Benthron anne of Gclersteln Arthur Phllipson and Rudolph Donrerhugel Mv Aunt Manrarets MirrorSir Philip Forester and MaJor Falconer The Two Drovers Robin Oig McCom blch and Harry Wakejleid not strictly a duel although fatal enough The Surgeon s Daughter Richard Midi Mid-i I dlemas and the Lieutenant Colonel of Fort St George The Death of the Lairds JockYoung I Armstrong and Foster |