seph Hume said what neither was nor could be correct, as
any one who either knew what belonged to composing novels, or acting
as clerk to a court of justice, would easily have discovered."
(_Memoirs of Sir William Knighton_, p. 252.)]

[Footnote 14: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 60; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 390.]

[Footnote 15: See the Memoir prefixed to the Globe Edition of Scott's
poems.]

[Footnote 16: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 217.]

[Footnote 17: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 447.]

[Footnote 18: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 122.]

[Footnote 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.)]

[Footnote 20: _Napoleon_, Vol. I, ch. 2.]

[Footnote 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.)]

[Footnote 22: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 365.]

[Footnote 23: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 112.]

[Footnote 24: _Journal_, Vol. 1, p. 303; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 68.]

[Footnote 25: _Letters to Heber_, p. 69.]

[Footnote 26: Irving's _Abbotsford_.]

[Footnote 27: _Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor_, Vol. I,
p. 282. See also Scott's review of the _Life of Home_; and _Lockhart_,
Vol. III, p. 304.]

[Footnote 28: _Cockburn's Memorials_, p. 181.]

[Footnote 29: _Ticknor_, Vol. I, p. 280.]

[Footnote 30: _Letters to Heber_, p. 63; _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p.
496.]

[Footnote 31: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 177.]

[Footnote 32: Review of _Poems of William Herbert_, _Edinburgh
Review_, October, 1806.]

[Footnote 33: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, pp. 275-6.]

[Footnote 34: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 333.]

[Footnote 35: In 1830.]

[Footnote 36: Ritson's principal works were as follows: _Select
Collection of English Songs_ (1783); _Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry
from Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies_ (1791); _Ancient
Songs from the Time of Henry III. to the Revolution_ (1792); _Scottish
Songs with the Genuine Music_ (1794); _Poems by Laurence Minot_
(1795); _Robin Hood Poems_ (1795); _Ancient Engli