NOTES: 

[1:  Frazer, Folklore of the Old Testament, I. iv. sec. 2.]

[2:  Cock Lane and Common Sense, 1894.]

[3:  Spectator, No. 12.]

[4:  Spectator, No. 110.]

[5:  Boswell, Life of Johnson, June 12th, 1784.]

[6:  Tom Jones, Bk. xvi. ch. v.]

[7:  Letter to Dr. Moore, Aug. 2, 1787.]

[8:  Ashton, Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century, 1882.]

[9:  Advertisement to Cloudesley, 1830.]

[10:  Preface to Mandeville, Oct. 25, 1817.]

[11:  Letters, vii. 27.]

[12:  The Uncommercial Traveller.]

[13:  Odyssey, xi.]

[14:  April 17, 1765.]

[15:  Nov. 13, 1784.]

[16:  June 12, 1753.]

[17:  Remarks on Italy.]

[18:  Aug. 4, 1753.]

[19:  Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay, vol. ii.  Appendix ii.:  A
     Visit to Strawberry Hill in 1786.]

[20:  Jan. 5, 1766.]

[21:  July 15, 1783.]

[22:  March 26, 1765.]

[23:  Nov. 5, 1782.]

[24:  It has been pointed out (Scott, Lives of the Novelists,
note)
     that in Lope de Vega’s Jerusalem the picture of Noradine
stalks
     from its panel and addresses Saladine.]

[25:  Cf.  Wallace, Blind Harry.]

[26:  Preface, 1764.]

[27:  Ch.  XX.]

[28:  Ch.  XXXIV.]

[29:  Ch. lxii.]

[30:  Jan. 27, 1780.]

[31:  Letters, April 8, 1778, and Jan. 27, 1780.]

[32:  Poetical Works, ed.  Sampson, p. 8.]

[33:  Translated Blackwood’s Magazine, 1820 (Nov.).  Cf.  Scott,
     Bridal of Triermain.]

[34:  E.g.  Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay, June 18, 1795;
     Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, 14th ed. 1808, p. 56;
Scott,
     Lives of the Novelists; Extracts from the Diary of a
Lover of
     Literature (1810); Byron, Childe Harold, iv. xviii.;
     Thackeray, Newcomes, chs. xi., xxviii.; Bronte, Shirley,
ch.
     xxvii; Trollope, Barchester Towers, ch. xv., etc.]

[35:  Family Letters, 1908.]

[36:  Reprinted, Romancist and Novelist’s Library.]

[37:  Journeys of Mrs. Radcliffe, 2nd ed., 1795, vol. ii. p. 171.]

[38:  Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. 1855, vol. i. p. 201.]

[39:  Lecture on The English Novelists.]

[40:  Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis, 1839, i. 122.]

[41:  Life and Correspondence, July 22nd, 1794.]

[42:  Essay on The State of German Literature.]

[43:  Southey, Preface to Madoc.]