[Footnote 199:  Horace Walpole, in Lives of the Novelists.]

  [Footnote 200:  Lockhart, Vol.  III, p. 512.]

  [Footnote 201:  Quarterly, September, 1826.]

  [Footnote 202:  See his explanation, in the articles themselves.]

  [Footnote 203:  The Mid-Eighteenth Century, by J.H.  Millar, p. 143,
  note.]

  [Footnote 204:  Ibid., p. 159.  Scott compares Fielding and Smollett
  at some length in the Life of Smollett.]

  [Footnote 205:  Life of Le Sage.]

  [Footnote 206:  Life of Richardson.]

  [Footnote 207:  Life of Fielding.]

  [Footnote 208:  Life of Goldsmith.  As we might expect, Scott speaks
  rather too favorably of Goldsmith’s hack work in history and science.]

  [Footnote 209:  Life of Sterne.]

  [Footnote 210:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 35.]

  [Footnote 211:  See above, p. 53, note.]

[Footnote 212:  See also the Introductory epistle to Ivanhoe; and the Review of Walpole’s Letters.  “In attaining his contemporary triumph,” says Mr. Brander Matthews, “Scott owed more to Horace Walpole than to Maria Edgeworth.” The Historical Novel, p. 10.]

  [Footnote 213:  Scott uses the word.]

[Footnote 214:  Mr. G.A.  Aitken has given convincing evidence that the story was not invented by Defoe.  Mr. Aitken also shows the falsity of Scott’s statement that Drelincourt’s book was in need of advertising, as William Lee, in his Life of Defoe, had previously done. (See The Nineteenth Century, xxxvii:  95.  January, 1895; and also Aitken’s edition of Defoe’s Romances and Narratives, Vol.  XV, Introduction.) A passage from Defoe’s History of the Church of Scotland is quoted in the review of Tales of My Landlord, by Scott, who says that it probably suggested one of the scenes in Old Mortality.  Scott there speaks of Defoe’s “liveliness of imagination,” and says he “excelled all others in dramatizing a story, and presenting it as if in actual speech and action before the reader.” (Quarterly Review, January, 1817.)]

  [Footnote 215:  See also The Fortunes of Nigel, Vol.  II, pp. 88-9.]

  [Footnote 216:  Life of Clara Reeve.]

  [Footnote 217:  Blackwood, March, 1818.]

  [Footnote 218:  Quarterly, May, 1818.]

  [Footnote 219:  See a reference to Voltaire and other French authors;
  Napoleon, Vol.  I, ch. 2.]

  [Footnote 220:  Life of Richardson.]

[Footnote 221:  We gather from Scott’s article that he considered the following to be the chief “speculative errors” of Bage:  he was an infidel; he misrepresented different classes of society, thinking the high tyrannical and the low virtuous and generous; his system of ethics was founded on philosophy instead of religion; he was inclined to minimize the importance of purity in women; he considered tax-gatherers extortioners, and soldiers, licensed murderers.]

  [Footnote 222:  Lockhart, Vol.  II, p. 132.]