Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature

by Margaret Ball

[192] Lockhart, Vol. II, p. 20.

[193] September, 1816.

[194] Swift Vol. XVII, p. 4, note.

[195] Life of Swift, conclusion.

[196] Swift, Vol. XI, p. 12.

[197] Vol. IX, p. 569. The tract had already been correctly assigned. A similar note on another tract indicates more careful research on the part of the editor. The paper is A Secret History of One Year, which had commonly been attributed to Robert Walpole. Scott says: "This tract in not to found in Mr. Coxe's list of Sir Robert Walpole's publications, nor in that given by his son, the Earl of Oxford, in the Royal and Noble Authors.... It does not seem at all probable that Walpole should at this crisis have thought it proper to advocate these principles." (Vol. XIII, p. 873.) The piece is now attributed to Defoe.

[198] See above, p. 4.

[199] Horace Walpole, in Lives of the Novelists.

[200] Lockhart, Vol. III, p. 512.

[201] Quarterly, September, 1826.