, _The Pirate_,
_The Black Dwarf_, _Rob Roy_, _The Heart of Midlothian_, _Waverley_,
_Guy Mannering_, _Redgauntlet_, _Chronicles of the Canongate (First
series)_, _The Antiquary_. The long poems all found their setting in
earlier periods.]

[Footnote 3: _British Novelists and their Styles_, pp. 167-8.]

[Footnote 4: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 9.]

[Footnote 5: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 194.]

[Footnote 6: See particularly _Paul's Letters; Provincial
Antiquities_; and the Histories of the years 1814 and 1815, each a
respectable volume, written for the _Edinburgh Annual Register_.]

[Footnote 7: Ruskin's remark that "The excellence of Scott's work is
precisely in proportion to the degree in which it is sketched from
present nature," should not necessarily lead on to the condemnation
which follows: "He does not see how anything is to be got out of the
past but confusion, old iron on drawing-room chairs, and serious
inconvenience to Dr. Heavysterne." (_Modern Painters_, Part IV, ch.
16, Sec. 32.)]

[Footnote 8: _Letters to Richard Heber_, etc. (by J.L. Adolphus), pp.
136-137.]

[Footnote 9: Mr. Herford distinguishes two lines of romantic
sentiment--"the one pursuing the image of the past as a refuge from
reality, the other as a portion of it: the mediaevalism of Tieck and
the mediaevalism of Scott." _The Age of Wordsworth_, Introduction, p.
xxiv, note.]

[Footnote 10: _Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart_, p. 249.]

[Footnote 11: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 333; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 81.
The edition of Lockhart's _Life of Scott_ to which reference is made
throughout this study is that in five volumes, published by Macmillan
& Co. in the "Library of English Classics."]

[Footnote 12: Chesterton, _Varied Types_, pp. 161-2.]

[Footnote 13: The fact that Scott was a Clerk of the Court of Sessions
is remembered less frequently than the fact that he had business
complications. But this employment of his, which could be undertaken
only by a lawyer, occupied a large proportion of his time during
twenty-four years. He once wrote, "I cannot work well after I have had
four or five hours of the court, for though the business is trifling,
yet it requires constant attention, which is at length exhausting."
(_Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, p. 195.) Again he wrote, "I
saw it reported that Joseph Hume said I composed novels at the clerk's
table; but Jo