This work is called a "romance," because the incidents, characters,
time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old
tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the
dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel.
And yet he thinks that the outlines are filled in more
carefully, and the situations (however simple) more warmly colored
and quickened, than a reader would expect to find in what is called
a "legend." And he knows that any son of Exmoor, chancing on this
volume, cannot fail to bring to mind the nurse-tales of his
childhood -- the savage deeds of the outlaw Doones in the depth of
Bagworthy Forest, the beauty of the hapless maid brought up in the
midst of them, the plain John Ridd's Herculean power, and (memory's
too congenial food) the exploits of Tom Faggus.
R.D. Blackmore
March, 1869
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