NOTES:
[1: Frazer, Folklore of the Old Testament, I. iv. § 2.]
[2: Cock Lane and Common Sense, 1894.]
[3: Spectator, No. 12.]
[4: Spectator, No. 110.]
[5: Boswell, Life of Johnson, June 12th, 1784.]
[6: Tom Jones, Bk. xvi. ch. v.]
[7: Letter to Dr. Moore, Aug. 2, 1787.]
[8: Ashton, Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century, 1882.]
[9: Advertisement to Cloudesley, 1830.]
[10: Preface to Mandeville, Oct. 25, 1817.]
[11: Letters, vii. 27.]
[12: The Uncommercial Traveller.]
[13: Odyssey, xi.]
[14: April 17, 1765.]
[15: Nov. 13, 1784.]
[16: June 12, 1753.]
[17: Remarks on Italy.]
[18: Aug. 4, 1753.]
[19: Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, vol. ii. Appendix ii.: A Visit to Strawberry Hill in 1786.]
[20: Jan. 5, 1766.]
[21: July 15, 1783.]
[22: March 26, 1765.]
[23: Nov. 5, 1782.]
[24: It has been pointed out (Scott, Lives of the Novelists, note) that in Lope de Vega's Jerusalem the picture of Noradine stalks from its panel and addresses Saladine.]
[25: Cf. Wallace, Blind Harry.]
[26: Preface, 1764.]
[27: Ch. XX.]
[28: Ch. XXXIV.]
[29: Ch. lxii.]
[30: Jan. 27, 1780.]
[31: Letters, April 8, 1778, and Jan. 27, 1780.]
[32: Poetical Works, ed. Sampson, p. 8.]
[33: Translated Blackwood's Magazine, 1820 (Nov.). Cf. Scott, Bridal of Triermain.]
[34: E.g. Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, June 18, 1795;
Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, 14th ed. 1808, p. 56;
Scott,
Lives of the Novelists; Extracts from the Diary of a
Lover of
Literature (1810); Byron, Childe Harold, iv. xviii.;
Thackeray, Newcomes, chs. xi., xxviii.; Brontë, Shirley,
ch.
xxvii; Trollope, Barchester Towers, ch. xv., etc.]
[35: Family Letters, 1908.]
[36: Reprinted, Romancist and Novelist's Library.]
[37: Journeys of Mrs. Radcliffe, 2nd ed., 1795, vol. ii. p. 171.]
[38: Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. 1855, vol. i. p. 201.]
[39: Lecture on The English Novelists.]
[40: Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis, 1839, i. 122.]
[41: Life and Correspondence, July 22nd, 1794.]
[42: Essay on The State of German Literature.]
[43: Southey, Preface to Madoc.]
[44: Life and Correspondence, Feb. 23, 1798.]
[45: Letter to John Murray, Aug. 23rd, 1814.]
[46: Monthly Review, June, 1797.]
[47: No. 148.]
[48: Cf. Musaeus: Die Entführung.]
[49: Marmion, Canto ii. Intro.]
[50: Reprinted, Romancist and Novelist's Library, vol. i. 1839.]
[51: Essay on German Playwrights.]
[52: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809).]
[53: Many of these were issued by B. Crosby, Stationers' Court.]
[54: Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers, 1856, p. 138.]
[55: Trans. from the German of Christian August Vulpius.]
[56: Cf. Thackeray, "Tunbridge Toys" (Roundabout Papers).]
[57: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.]
[58: Gentleman's Magazine, 1825; and memoir prefixed to the edition of Melmoth the Wanderer, published in 1892.]
[59: Prose Works, 1851, vol. xviii.]
[60: Letters and Memoir, 1895, vol. i. p. 101.]
[61: Life (Melville), 1909, vol. i. p. 79.]
[62: Letters, 2nd Series, 1872, vol. i. p. 101.]
[63: Gustave Planche, Portraits Littéraires.]
[64: Cf. Stevenson's Bottle-Imp.]
[65: Edinburgh Review, July 1821.]
[66: Conant, The Oriental Tale in England, pp. 36-38.]
[67: Conant, The Oriental Tale in England, pp. 36-38.]
[68: Letter to Henley, Jan. 29, 1782.]
[69: Life and Letters, Melville, 1910, p. 20.]
[70: Life and Letters, 1910, p. 20.]
[71: Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, 1853, vol. ii. p. 197.]
[72: Nov. 24, 1777, Life and Letters, p. 40.]
[73: Austen Leigh, Memoir of Jane Austen.]
[74: Letter to William Godwin, Dec. 7, 1817.]
[75: William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries. Kegan Paul, 1876, vol. i. p. 78.]
[76: Preface to Fleetwood, 1832.]
[77: Preface to Fleetwood, 1832.]
[78: Preface to Fleetwood, 1832, p. xi: "I read over a little
old
book entitled The Adventures of Mme. De St. Phale, I
turned
over the pages of a tremendous compilation entitled God's
Revenge against Murder, where the beam of the eye of
omniscience was represented as perpetually pursuing the
guilty… I was extremely conversant with The Newgate
Calendar and The Lives of the Pirates. I rather amused
myself
with tracing a certain similitude between the story of
Caleb
Williams and the tale of Bluebeard;" and Preface to
Cloudesley: "The present publication may in the same
sense be
denominated a paraphrase of the old ballad of the Children
in
the Wood.">[
[79: Scott, Introduction to The Abbot, 1831.]
[80: William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, 1876, vol. ii. p. 304.]
[81: Caleb Williams, ch. x.]
[82: William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, vol. i. pp. 330-1.]
[83: Political Justice, bk. ii, ch. ii.]
[84: William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, vol. i. pp. 330-1; Preface to 1st edition, 1799.]
[85: Hermippus Redivivus; or The Sage's Triumph over Old Age
and
the Grave (translated from the Latin of Cohausen, with
annotations), 1743. Dr. Johnson pronounced the volume "very
entertaining as an account of the hermetic philosophy and as
furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies of the
human
mind," adding "if it were merely imaginary it would be
nothing at
all.">[
[86: St. Leon, vol. iv. ch, xiii.]
[87: St. Leon, Bk. iv, ch. v.]
[88: Lives of the Necromancers, 1834, Preface. "The main purpose of this book is to exhibit a fair delineation of the credulity of the human mind. Such an exhibition cannot fail to be productive of the most salutary lessons.">[
[89: St. Godwin: A Tale of the 16th, 17th and 18th Century, by Count Reginald de St. Leon, 1800, p. 234.]
[90: Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 10.]
[91: Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 44.]
[92: Hogg, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 15.]
[93: Cf. Castle of Lindenberg story in The Monk, and ballad of Alonzo the Brave.]
[94: A versification of the story of the Wandering Jew, Bleeding Nun and Don Raymond in The Monk.]
[95: This poem was borrowed from Lewis's Tales of Terror
(without
Shelley's knowledge), where it is entitled The Black Canon
of
Elmham, or St. Edmond's Eve.]
[96: Letter to Edward Fergus Graham, Ap. 23, 1810 (Letters, ed.
Ingpen, 1909, vol. i, pp. 4-6).]
[97: Letter to John Joseph Stockdale, Nov. 14, 1810.]
[98: Mme. de Montolieu, Caroline de Lichfield, translated by Thos. Holcroft, 1786.]
[99: Mme. de Genlis, translated by Rev. Beresford, 1796.]
[100: Peter Middleton Darling, Romance of the Highlands, 1810.]
[101: Regina Maria Roche, The Discarded Son, or The Haunt of the Banditti, 1806.]
[102: Agnes Musgrave, Cicely, or The Rose of Raby.]
[103: Aphra Behn, The Nun.]
[104: Charlotte Smith, Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake, 1790.]
[105: The Relapse: a novel, 1780.]
[106: Tales of the Hall.]
[107: Crébillon, Les Égarements du Coeur et de l'Esprit.]
[108: The Borough, Ellen Orford, Letter xx.]
[109: The Borough, xx, ll. 56 seqq.]
[110: Parish Register.]
[111: William and Helen, 1796.]
[112: House of Aspen, 1799 (Keepsake, 1830). Doom of Devorgoil, 1817 (Keepsake, 1830).]
[113: Scott, Lives of the Novelists (on Clara Reeve and Mrs. Radcliffe and Maturin).]
[114: Keepsake, 1828.]
[115: Keepsake, 1828.]
[116: Journal, Feb. 23, 1826.]
[117: List of books read 1814-1816.]
[118: Fantasmagoriana: ou Recueil d'Histoires d'Apparitions, de
Spectres, de Revenans, trad. d'Allemand par un Amateur.
Paris,
1812.]
[119: Diary of John William Polidori, June 17, 1816.]
[120: Byron, Letters and Journals, 1899, iii. 446. Mary Shelley, Life and Letters, 1889, i. 586. Extract from Mary Shelley's Diary, Aug. 14, 1816.]
[121: Nov. 15, 1823, Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Marshall), ii. 52.]
[122: Life and Letters, ii. 88. ]
[123: Romancist and Novelist's Library.]
[124: Reprinted in Treasure House of Tales by Great Authors, ed. Garnett, 1891.]
[125: Punch, vol. x. p. 31:
"Says Ainsworth to Colburn
A plan in my pate is
To give my romance, as
A supplement gratis.
Says Colburn to Ainsworth
'Twill do very nicely,
For that will be charging
Its value precisely.">[
[126: Life, Letters and Literary Remains, 1883, vol. ii. pp. 70 seqq.]
[127: Dublin University Magazine, 1862. "Forgotten Novels.">[
[128: Blackwood's Magazine, 1830-1837.]
[129: Within the Tides, 1915.]
[130: Preface to The Algerine Captive (Walpole, Vermont, 1797) quoted Loshe, Early American Novel, N.Y. 1907.]
[131: Preface to Edgar Huntly.]
[132: Peacock, Memoirs of Shelley.]