Ellis
and Murray have been talking something about Scott and me, George
pro Scoto
,—and very right too. If they want to depose him, I only wish they would not set me up as a competitor. Even if I had my choice, I would rather be the Earl of Warwick than all the
kings
he ever made! Jeffrey and Gifford I take to be the monarch-makers in poetry and prose. The
British Critic
, in their Rokeby Review, have presupposed a comparison which I am sure my friends never thought of, and W. Scott's subjects are injudicious in descending to. I like the man—and admire his works to what Mr. Braham calls
Entusymusy