y discharge my part of the matter, which is the
Prolegomena, and Life and Times." (Lang's _Lockhart_, I, 409.) In
1827 the question of carrying on the work was still undecided, and
it was also mentioned in a letter in 1830. (Lang's _Lockhart_ II,
13 and 59). The project was ultimately abandoned, and the fate of
that part of the work which was actually in print is unknown. In
the Barton Collection in the Boston Public Library is preserved
what is perhaps a unique copy of three volumes of the set of ten
that Scott and Lockhart undertook to prepare. But as the books are
bound up without title-pages, and as the commentary contains
nothing that would determine its authorship, the attribution is
probable rather than certain. These volumes include twelve of the
comedies. On the fly-leaf of one of them is a note written by Mr.
Rodd, a London bookseller. He says: "I purchased these three
volumes from a sale at Edinburgh. They were entered in the
catalogue as 'Shakespeare's Works, edited by Sir Walter Scott and
Lockhart, vols. ii, in, iv, all published, _unique_'." It was not
positively known that such a work had been planned until the
publication of Constable's _Correspondence_ in 1874. At that time
Justin Winsor wrote a letter to the _Boston Advertiser_ (March 21,
1874) in which he said: "The account of the Barton collection,
which was printed fifteen years ago, contained the earliest public
mention, I believe, of the supposition that Scott ever engaged in
such a work, which this life of Constable now renders certain.
These later corroborative statements give a peculiar interest to
the volumes which are now in this library and which are perhaps
the only ones of the edition now in existence." The introductions
to the plays are each only a page or two long, and are mainly,
like the notes, compilations. The book corresponds fairly well
with the description given in _Constable_. (See Vol. III, pp. 183,
193, 237-8, 241, 242, 244, 246, 305, 321, 442. See also Lang's
_Lockhart_, I, 308-9, 395-6, and Lang's Introduction to _Peveril
of the Peak_.)

1827
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a
preliminary view of the French Revolution. By the author of Waverley.
9 vols. Edinburgh.

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