[Footnote 15:  See the Memoir prefixed to the Globe Edition of Scott’s
  poems.]

  [Footnote 16:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  I, p. 217.]

  [Footnote 17:  Lockhart, Vol.  III, p. 447.]

  [Footnote 18:  Ibid., Vol.  I, p. 122.]

[Footnote 19:  Cooper measured his own success by the same test.  At the conclusion of the Letter to the Publisher with which The Pioneers originally opened he said he should look to his publisher for “the only true account of the reception of his book.” (Lounsbury’s Life of Cooper, pp. 43-4.)]

  [Footnote 20:  Napoleon, Vol.  I, ch. 2.]

[Footnote 21:  “He fixed his attention on his employments without the slightest consideration for his own feelings of whatever kind, either in regard to state of health or domestic sorrows.” (Memoirs of a Literary Veteran, by R.P.  Gillies, Vol.  III, p. 141.)]

  [Footnote 22:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  II, p. 365.]

  [Footnote 23:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  I, p. 112.]

  [Footnote 24:  Journal, Vol. 1, p. 303; Lockhart, Vol.  V, p. 68.]

  [Footnote 25:  Letters to Heber, p. 69.]

  [Footnote 26:  Irving’s Abbotsford.]

  [Footnote 27:  Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor, Vol.  I,
  p. 282.  See also Scott’s review of the Life of Home; and Lockhart,
  Vol.  III, p. 304.]

  [Footnote 28:  Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 181.]

  [Footnote 29:  Ticknor, Vol.  I, p. 280.]

  [Footnote 30:  Letters to Heber, p. 63; Lockhart, Vol.  III, p.
  496.]

  [Footnote 31:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 177.]

  [Footnote 32:  Review of Poems of William Herbert, Edinburgh
  Review, October, 1806.]

  [Footnote 33:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, pp. 275-6.]

  [Footnote 34:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 333.]

  [Footnote 35:  In 1830.]

[Footnote 36:  Ritson’s principal works were as follows:  Select Collection of English Songs (1783); Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry from Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies (1791); Ancient Songs from the Time of Henry III. to the Revolution (1792); Scottish Songs with the Genuine Music (1794); Poems by Laurence Minot (1795); Robin Hood Poems (1795); Ancient English Metrical Romances (1802).]

[Footnote 37:  Ellis published his Specimens of the Early English Poets in 1790, and it was reissued with the addition of the Introduction in 1801 and 1803.  He edited also Way’s translations of the Fabliaux (1796), and Specimens of Early English Romances in Metre (1805).]

  [Footnote 38:  Review of Dunlop’s History of Fiction, July, 1815.]