[Footnote 334:  Ibid., Vol.  III, p. 131, note; Fam.  Let., Vol.  I, p. 440.  “Walter Scott was the first transatlantic author to bear witness to the merit of Knickerbocker,” wrote P.M.  Irving in his Life of Washington Irving.  Henry Brevoort presented Scott with a copy of the second edition in 1813, and received this reply:  “I beg you to accept my best thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York.  I am sensible that as a stranger to American parties and politics I must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece, but I must own that looking at the simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift, as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker....  I think too there are passages which indicate that the author possesses powers of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne.” (Life of Irving, Vol.  I, p. 240.) When, in 1819, Irving needed money, he wrote to Scott for advice about publishing the Sketch Book in England.  “Scott was the only literary man,” he says, “to whom I felt that I could talk about myself and my petty concerns with the confidence and freedom that I would to an old friend—­nor was I deceived.  From the first moment that I mentioned my work to him in a letter, he took a decided and effective interest in it, and has been to me an invaluable friend.”  (Vol.  I, p. 456.) At this time Scott asked Irving to accept the editorship of a political newspaper in Edinburgh, an offer which Irving of course refused. (Fam.  Let., Vol.  II, p. 60; Life of Irving, Vol.  I, pp. 441-2, and Vol.  III, pp. 272-3.) Scott called the Sketch Book “positively beautiful.”  He was by some people supposed to be the author.  In this connection it was said of him that his “very numerous disguises,” and his “well-known fondness for literary masquerading, seem to have gained him the advantage of being suspected as the author of every distinguished work that is published.” (Letter by Lady Lyttleton, in Life of Irving, Vol.  II, p. 21.)]

  [Footnote 335:  Lockhart, Vol.  III, p. 131; Life of Irving, Vol.  I,
  p. 240.]

  [Footnote 336:  Lockhart, Vol.  IV, p. 161.]

  [Footnote 337:  Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, Letter II.]

  [Footnote 338:  Constable’s Correspondence, Vol.  III, p. 199.]

  [Footnote 339:  Lockhart, Vol.  V, pp. 100-104.]

  [Footnote 340:  Vol.  I, p. 371.]

  [Footnote 341:  Journal, Vol.  I, p. 359; Lockhart, Vol.  V, p. 100. 
  See also Journal, Vol.  II, pp. 483-4.]

  [Footnote 342:  Review of Hoffmann’s novels, Foreign Quarterly
  Review, July, 1827.]

  [Footnote 343:  Lockhart, Vol.  IV, p. 19.]