with Cowper’s, to the disadvantage of the later poet.  The introduction to The Hind and the Panther is 20 pages long, and discusses the history of the period as well as the argument of the poem, its style, the subject of fables in general, and the effects the poem produced.  The notes on this poem are copious.  As he discussed the Fables in the Life of Dryden, Scott gave them no general introduction, and for each poem he wrote only a slight preface, telling something of the source and pointing out special beauties.  His notes vary greatly in abundance.  Those on Palamon and Arcite, e.g., are brief, explaining terms of chivalry and heraldry, but not giving literary or linguistic comment.]

  [Footnote 178:  Dryden, Vol.  XIII, p. 324.]

  [Footnote 179:  Ibid., Vol.  XII, p. 20.]

  [Footnote 180:  Ibid., Vol.  X, p. 213.]

  [Footnote 181:  Ibid., Vol.  I, p. 411.]

[Footnote 182:  Ibid., Vol.  I, p. 98.  See also St. Ronan’s Well, Vol.  I, p. 105, and various mottoes in the novels.  The edition of the novels used for reference is that published in Edinburgh (1867) in 48 volumes.]

  [Footnote 183:  Dryden, Vol.  X, p. 26.]

  [Footnote 184:  For example see Anne of Geierstein, Vol.  II, p. 307.]

  [Footnote 185:  Letters to Heber, p. 292.]

[Footnote 186:  The price offered for the Swift was L1500.  This must have been a rather rash speculation on the publisher’s part, as there had been several editions of Swift’s works published.  The first appeared in twelve volumes in 1755, edited by Hawkesworth.  Deane Swift, Hawkesworth, and others, added thirteen more volumes in the course of the next twenty-five years, and when the whole was completed it was reissued in three different sizes.  In 1785 an edition in seventeen volumes was published, edited by Thomas Sheridan.  In 1801 the edition by Nichols was published, and it reappeared in 1804 and in 1808.  Hawkesworth and Thomas Sheridan supplied biographies which Leslie Stephen characterized by saying that Hawkesworth’s gave no new material and that Sheridan’s was “pompous and dull.” (Preface to Leslie Stephen’s Life of Swift.)]

  [Footnote 187:  Correspondence of C.K.  Sharpe, Vol.  II, p. 178.]

  [Footnote 188:  This correspondence consisted of 28 letters from Swift,
  and 16 “Vanessa.”]

[Footnote 189:  A comparison of the index with the bibliography in the Dictionary of National Biography and with Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole’s Notes for a Bibliography of Swift (Bibliographer, vi:  160-71) shows that Scott was usually right in his judgment on the main articles.  But since Mr. Lane-Poole ends his list thus:  “And numerous short poems, trifles, characters and short pieces,” it is evident that one cannot carry