follows, arranged approximately in the order of
their periods: The Bride of Lammermoor,
The Pirate, The Black Dwarf, Rob
Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, Waverley,
Guy Mannering, Redgauntlet, Chronicles
of the Canongate (First series), The Antiquary.
The long poems all found their setting in earlier
periods.]
[Footnote 3: British Novelists and their Styles, pp. 167-8.]
[Footnote 4: Familiar Letters, Vol. II, p. 9.]
[Footnote 5: Ibid., Vol. I, p. 194.]
[Footnote 6: See particularly Paul’s
Letters; Provincial
Antiquities; and the Histories of
the years 1814 and 1815, each a
respectable volume, written for the Edinburgh
Annual Register.]
[Footnote 7: Ruskin’s remark that “The excellence of Scott’s work is precisely in proportion to the degree in which it is sketched from present nature,” should not necessarily lead on to the condemnation which follows: “He does not see how anything is to be got out of the past but confusion, old iron on drawing-room chairs, and serious inconvenience to Dr. Heavysterne.” (Modern Painters, Part IV, ch. 16, Sec. 32.)]
[Footnote 8: Letters to Richard
Heber, etc. (by J.L. Adolphus), pp.
136-137.]
[Footnote 9: Mr. Herford distinguishes two lines of romantic sentiment—“the one pursuing the image of the past as a refuge from reality, the other as a portion of it: the mediaevalism of Tieck and the mediaevalism of Scott.” The Age of Wordsworth, Introduction, p. xxiv, note.]
[Footnote 10: Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart, p. 249.]
[Footnote 11: Journal, Vol. I, p. 333; Lockhart, Vol. V, p. 81. The edition of Lockhart’s Life of Scott to which reference is made throughout this study is that in five volumes, published by Macmillan & Co. in the “Library of English Classics.”]
[Footnote 12: Chesterton, Varied Types, pp. 161-2.]
[Footnote 13: The fact that Scott was a Clerk of the Court of Sessions is remembered less frequently than the fact that he had business complications. But this employment of his, which could be undertaken only by a lawyer, occupied a large proportion of his time during twenty-four years. He once wrote, “I cannot work well after I have had four or five hours of the court, for though the business is trifling, yet it requires constant attention, which is at length exhausting.” (Constable’s Correspondence, Vol. III, p. 195.) Again he wrote, “I saw it reported that Joseph Hume said I composed novels at the clerk’s table; but Joseph Hume said what neither was nor could be correct, as any one who either knew what belonged to composing novels, or acting as clerk to a court of justice, would easily have discovered.” (Memoirs of Sir William Knighton, p. 252.)]
[Footnote 14: Journal, Vol. I, p. 60; Lockhart, Vol. IV, p. 390.]


