him.  Scott probably never mentioned Leigh Hunt’s name publicly in his life, and he refers to the insults neither in his correspondence nor in his Journal.” (Lang’s Life of Lockhart, Vol.  II, pp. 22 and 24.) Hunt evidently thought that Scott was partly responsible for the articles in Blackwood on the Cockney School.  He says, “Unfortunately some of the knaves were not destitute of talent:  the younger were tools of older ones who kept out of sight.” (Hunt’s Lord Byron, etc., Vol.  I, p. 423.) In his Autobiography, Hunt says, “Sir Walter Scott confessed to Mr. Severn at Rome that the truth respecting Keats had prevailed.” (Vol.  II, p. 44.) Mr. Lang points out that though Colvin said of Scott (in his Life of Keats) “that he was in some measure privy to the Cockney School outrages seems certain,” he afterwards recanted the statement. (In his edition of Keats’s Letters, p. 60, note.  See Lang’s Lockhart, Vol.  I, pp. 196-8.) Scott invited Lamb to Abbotsford when Lamb was looked upon as a leader of the Cockney School. (Lang’s Scott, p. 52.)]

  [Footnote 319:  Journal, Vol.  I, p. 155; Lockhart, Vol.  IV, p. 476,
  and Vol.  V, p. 380.]

  [Footnote 320:  Quarterly, October, 1815.]

  [Footnote 321:  Postscript to Waverley, and General Introduction.]

[Footnote 322:  For references to the group of women novelists who were so successful in depicting manners, see the Life of Charlotte Smith; the Postscript to Waverley; the Introduction to St. Ronan’s Well; Journal, Vol.  I, p. 164.]

  [Footnote 323:  Journal, Vol.  II, p.  III.]

  [Footnote 324:  Ibid., Vol.  II, p. 116.]

  [Footnote 325:  Lockhart, Vol.  IV, 164.]

  [Footnote 326:  Journal, Vol.  I, p. 299; Lockhart, Vol.  V, p. 65.]

  [Footnote 327:  Journal, Vol.  I, p. 295; Lockhart, Vol.  V, p. 62.]

[Footnote 328:  The reference as given by Lockhart is as follows:  “This man, who has shown so much genius, has a good deal of the manners, or want of manners, peculiar to his countrymen.” (Lockhart, Vol.  V, p. 62.) Cooper observes in regard to this point:  “The manners of most Europeans strike us as exaggerated, while we appear cold to them.  Sir Walter Scott was certainly so obliging as to say many flattering things to me, which I, as certainly, did not repay in kind.  As Johnson said of his interview with George the Third, it was not for me to bandy compliments with my sovereign.  At that time the diary was a sealed book to the world, and I did not know the importance he attached to such civilities.”  It is a pity that the transcriber of the passage in the Journal changed “manner,” which was the word Scott wrote, to the more objectionable “manners.” (Journal, Vol.  I,