Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature

by Margaret Ball

[415] Herford's Age of Wordsworth, pp. 39-40.

[416] Lockhart, Vol. II, p. 60.

[417] Paul's Letters, Letter XVI.

[418] Lockhart, Vol. II, p. 320.

[419] On Goethe's favorable opinion of the Napoleon, see a letter given in the appendix to Scott's Journal (Vol. II, pp. 485-6 and note).

[420] Carlyle's Essay on Scott. See also Taine's History of English Literature, Introduction, I.

[421] Review of Metrical Romances, Edinburgh Review, January, 1806.

[422] Lockhart, Vol. II, p. 333.

[423] The Pirate, Vol. II, p. 138.

[424] Introductory Epistle to Ivanhoe. Freeman, in his Norman Conquest, vigorously attacks Ivanhoe for its unwarranted picture of the relations between Saxons and Normans in the thirteenth century. (Vol. V, pp. 551-561.)