[Footnote 420:  Carlyle’s Essay on Scott.  See also Taine’s History
  of English Literature, Introduction, I.]

  [Footnote 421:  Review of Metrical Romances, Edinburgh Review,
  January, 1806.]

  [Footnote 422:  Lockhart, Vol.  II, p. 333.]

  [Footnote 423:  The Pirate, Vol.  II, p. 138.]

[Footnote 424:  Introductory Epistle to Ivanhoe.  Freeman, in his Norman Conquest, vigorously attacks Ivanhoe for its unwarranted picture of the relations between Saxons and Normans in the thirteenth century. (Vol.  V, pp. 551-561.)]

  [Footnote 425:  Mr. Lang points out that he made many written notes of
  his reading, as we should hardly expect a man of his unrivalled memory
  to do. (Life of Scott, p. 27.)]

  [Footnote 426:  Constable’s Correspondence, Vol.  III, p. 161.]

  [Footnote 427:  Constable’s Correspondence, Vol.  III, pp. 93-4.]

  [Footnote 428:  Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart, p. 247.]

[Footnote 429:  Mr. Lang’s theory that Scott was responsible for a decline in serious reading cannot be either proved or refuted completely, but more than one man has given personal testimony concerning the stimulating effect of the Waverley novels.  Thierry’s Norman Conquest was directly inspired by Ivanhoe, and with Ivanhoe is condemned by Freeman for its mistaken views.  Mr. Andrew D. White says in his Autobiography that Quentin Durward and Anne of Geierstein led him to see the first that he had ever clearly discerned of the great principles that “lie hidden beneath the surface of events”—­“the secret of the centralization of power in Europe, and of the triumph of monarchy over feudalism.” (Vol.  I, pp. 15-16.)]

[Footnote 430:  Scott had theories as to what children’s books ought to be.  They should stir the imagination, he said, instead of simply imparting knowledge as certain scientific books attempted to do. (Lockhart, Vol.  II, p. 27.) But he seriously objected to any attempt to write down to the understanding of children.  Of the Tales of a Grandfather he said:  “I will make, if possible, a book that a child shall understand, yet a man will feel some temptation to peruse, should he chance to take it up.” (Lockhart, Vol.  V, p. 112.  See also ib., Vol.  I, p. 19.) Anatole France has expressed ideas about children’s books which are practically the same as those of Scott.  (See Le Livre de Mon Ami, 3me partie:  “A Madame D * * *.")]

  [Footnote 431:  Introduction to The Fortunes of Nigel.]

  [Footnote 432:  See the Introduction to Waverley.]

  [Footnote 433:  Introductory Epistle to Ivanhoe.]