[15] See the Memoir prefixed to the Globe Edition of Scott's poems.
[16] Familiar Letters, Vol. I, p. 217.
[17] Lockhart, Vol. III, p. 447.
[18] Ibid., Vol. I, p. 122.
[19] Cooper measured his own success by the same test. At the conclusion of the Letter to the Publisher with which The Pioneers originally opened he said he should look to his publisher for "the only true account of the reception of his book." (Lounsbury's Life of Cooper, pp. 43-4.)
[20] Napoleon, Vol. I, ch. 2.
[21] "He fixed his attention on his employments without the slightest consideration for his own feelings of whatever kind, either in regard to state of health or domestic sorrows." (Memoirs of a Literary Veteran, by R.P. Gillies, Vol. III, p. 141.)
[22] Familiar Letters, Vol. II, p. 365.
[23] Familiar Letters, Vol. I, p. 112.
[24] Journal, Vol. 1, p. 303; Lockhart, Vol. V, p. 68.