text:  Yet how interesting is the whole story--how completely does it carry along every class of readers--how well does every incident of moment prepare the mind for the dreadful catastrophe in which it terminates! How few are the incidents in the _Abbot_--how scanty the materials on which the story is built! A page riding from a castle in Dumfries-shire to Edinburgh his introduction to the Regent Murray and adventures during a few days in Holyrood his attendance on the imprisoned Queen in Lochleven Castle her escape from thence and final overthrow at Langside--form the whole incidents out of which the web of that delightful romance has been woven