y poems; editions, and Latin versions. The
notes on this poem are historical and very full, but the introduction
contains as much literary as historical comment. _Religio Laici_ is
prefaced by 8 pages of introduction, in which are discussed the motive
of the writing, the argument, the title, the purpose of the poem, and
its reputation. Dryden's style in didactic poetry is compared with
Cowper's, to the disadvantage of the later poet. The introduction to
_The Hind and the Panther_ is 20 pages long, and discusses the history
of the period as well as the argument of the poem, its style, the
subject of fables in general, and the effects the poem produced. The
notes on this poem are copious. As he discussed the _Fables_ in the
_Life of Dryden_, Scott gave them no general introduction, and for
each poem he wrote only a slight preface, telling something of the
source and pointing out special beauties. His notes vary greatly in
abundance. Those on _Palamon and Arcite_, _e.g._, are brief,
explaining terms of chivalry and heraldry, but not giving literary or
linguistic comment.]

[Footnote 178: _Dryden_, Vol. XIII, p. 324.]

[Footnote 179: _Ibid._, Vol. XII, p. 20.]

[Footnote 180: _Ibid._, Vol. X, p. 213.]

[Footnote 181: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 411.]

[Footnote 182: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 98. See also _St. Ronan's Well_,
Vol. I, p. 105, and various mottoes in the novels. The edition of the
novels used for reference is that published in Edinburgh (1867) in 48
volumes.]

[Footnote 183: _Dryden_, Vol. X, p. 26.]

[Footnote 184: For example see _Anne of Geierstein_, Vol. II, p. 307.]

[Footnote 185: _Letters to Heber_, p. 292.]

[Footnote 186: The price offered for the _Swift_ was L1500. This must
have been a rather rash speculation on the publisher's part, as there
had been several editions of Swift's works published. The first
appeared in twelve volumes in 1755, edited by Hawkesworth. Deane
Swift, Hawkesworth, and others, added thirteen more volumes in the
course of the next twenty-five years, and when the whole was completed
it was reissued in three different sizes. In 1785 an edition in
seventeen volumes was published, edited by Thomas Sheridan. In 1801
the edition by Nichols was published, and it reappeared in 1804 and in
1808. Hawkesworth and Thomas Sheridan supplied biographies which
Leslie Stephen characterized by saying that Hawkesworth's gave n