[140] J. G. Lockhart, Life of Sir W. Scott, Ch. xlvi.
[141] The original of Scott’s Rebecca is said to have been a real person—Rebecca Gratz of Philadelphia. Washington Irving, who knew Miss Gratz, introduced her to Scott’s notice. She was born in 1781, and died in 1869. Her claim to have been “the original of Rebecca in Ivanhoe” is sustained in a paper with that title in the Century Magazine, 1882, pp. 679 fol.
[142] Don Juan, Canto II. lxv. It is only fair to add that Scott also, at the time of his financial distress, embittered by the harsh treatment which he experienced at the hands of his Jewish creditors, Abud and Son, expressed himself in very strong terms concerning “the vagabond stock-jobbing Jews” in general, and the Abuds in particular. See Scott’s Diary under dates Nov. 25, 1825, and Oct. 9, 1826, in J. G. Lockhart, Life of Sir W. Scott, Ch. lxv. and lxxi.
[143] Table-Talk.
[144] Luther’s Table-Talk, Ch. 852.
[145] Coleridge’s Table-Talk, April 14, 1830.
[146] Cp. above, p. 225.
[147] Editor’s note on May 30, 1830.
[148] Aug. 14, 1833.
[149] Editor’s note on April 14, 1830.