Excerpt from Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Vol. 42 Without entering into a lengthy comparison between the description Of the affair in Stevenson's story and the recorded facts, it may at once be said that, except that the ro-mancist places his tale in the year 1751, while the tragedy did not occur until the following year, Stevenson follows the actual facts pretty closely. Of course it need hardly be added that there was no David Balfour in the true story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.