[Footnote 462:  Three Studies in Literature, p. 38.]

  [Footnote 463:  Dryden, Vol.  XI, p. 26.]

  [Footnote 464:  Herford, op. cit., pp. 51-2.]

  [Footnote 465:  Essay on the Drama.]

  [Footnote 466:  Wylie, Studies in Criticism, pp. 107-8.]

  [Footnote 467:  Table Talk, August 4, 1833. Works, Vol.  VI, p.
  472.]

  [Footnote 468:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  II, p. 402.]

  [Footnote 469:  Article on Scott’s Demonology and Witchcraft,
  Fraser’s, December, 1830.]

  [Footnote 470:  Mackenzie’s Life of Scott, p. 118.]

  [Footnote 471:  The Plain Speaker, Hazlitt’s Works, Vol.  VII, p.
  345.]

  [Footnote 472:  Dryden, Vol.  I, p. 342.  See above, pp. 136-7.]

  [Footnote 473:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  I, p. 84.]

  [Footnote 474:  Life of Bage, in Novelists’ Library.]

[Footnote 475:  Essay on Judicial Reform, Edinburgh Annual Register, Vol.  I, pt. 2, p. 352.  Everyone knows that Scott was a decided Tory, and it is commonly supposed that he was an extremely prejudiced partisan.  But he closes a political passage in Woodstock with these words:  “We hasten to quit political reflections, the rather that ours, we believe, will please neither Whig nor Tory.” (End of Chapter 11.) From the definitions of Whig and Tory given in the Tales of a Grandfather, no one could guess his politics. (Chapter 53.)]

  [Footnote 476:  Leigh Hunt’s Autobiography, Vol.  I, p. 263.  See also
  pp. 258-260, and the notes on his Feast of the Poets.]

  [Footnote 477:  Courthope’s Liberal Movement, p. 122.]

  [Footnote 478:  Life of Murray, Vol.  II, p. 159.]

  [Footnote 479:  Ibid., Vol.  II, p. 232]

  [Footnote 480:  Macmillan’s Magazine, lxx:  326.]

[Footnote 481:  Newman’s Apologia, pp. 96-97.  Mark Twain thinks the influence of the novels was pernicious.  He says:  “A curious exemplification of the power of a single book for good or harm is shown in the effects wrought by Don Quixote and those wrought by Ivanhoe.  The first swept the world’s admiration for the mediaeval chivalry-silliness out of existence; and the other restored it....  Sir Walter had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible for the war.” (Life on the Mississippi, ch. xlvi.)]

  [Footnote 482:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  I, pp. 216-17.  See also his
  remarks upon booksellers in his review of Pitcairn’s Ancient Criminal
  Trials, Quarterly, February, 1831.]

  [Footnote 483:  Fraser’s, xiii:  693.]

  [Footnote 484:  Essay on Dunbar in Ephemera Critica.]