ife and Works of John Home_,
_Quarterly_, June, 1827.]

[Footnote 114: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 143.]

[Footnote 115: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 427. It may be noted that this
criticism does not show much dramatic insight.]

[Footnote 116: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, pp. 445-6.]

[Footnote 117: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 117; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p.
447.]

[Footnote 118: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 94; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 419.]

[Footnote 119: Advertisement to _Halidon Hill_. When the publisher
Cadell closed a bargain with Scott in five minutes for _Halidon Hill_,
giving him L1000, he wrote as follows to his partner: "My views were
these: here is a commencement of a series of dramatic writings--let us
begin by buying them out." (_Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, p.
217.)]

[Footnote 120: "That well-written, but very didactic 'Old Play'," as
Adolphus calls it. (_Letters to Heber_, p. 55.)]

[Footnote 121: Introductory epistle to _Nigel_.]

[Footnote 122: _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 414.]

[Footnote 123: Fitzgerald's _New History of the English Stage_, Vol.
II, p. 404.]

[Footnote 124: _Dramatic Essays_, Hazlitt's _Works_, Vol. VIII, p.
422.]

[Footnote 125: _Lockhart_, Vol. III. p. 176.]

[Footnote 126: _Ibid._, Vol. III. p. 265.]

[Footnote 127: _Ibid._, Vol. III. p. 332.]

[Footnote 128: _Essay on the Drama_.]

[Footnote 129: In 1808 he wrote to a friend: "We have Miss Baillie
here at present, who is certainly the best dramatic writer whom
Britain has produced since the days of Shakspeare and Massinger."
(_Fam. Let._, Vol. I. p. 99.) But Wilson also put Joanna Baillie next
to Shakspere, and quite seriously. The article in the _Dictionary of
National Biography_, on Joanna Baillie says that when the first volume
of _Plays on the Passions_ was published anonymously in 1798, Walter
Scott was at first suspected of being the author. But as Scott had
done nothing to give him a literary reputation in 1798, the assertion
is incredible. It seems to be based on the following very inexact
statement in _Chambers's Biographical Dictionary of Eminent
Scotsmen._ (Vol. V, Art. _Joanna Baillie_.) "Rich though the period
was in poetry, this work made a great impression, and a new edition of
it was soon required. The writer was sought for among the most gifted
personages of the day, and the illustrious Scott, with others then
equally apprecia