story was not invented by Defoe. Mr. Aitken also shows the falsity of
Scott's statement that Drelincourt's book was in need of advertising,
as William Lee, in his _Life of Defoe_, had previously done. (See _The
Nineteenth Century_, xxxvii: 95. January, 1895; and also Aitken's
edition of Defoe's _Romances and Narratives_, Vol. XV, Introduction.)
A passage from Defoe's _History of the Church of Scotland_ is quoted
in the review of _Tales of My Landlord_, by Scott, who says that it
probably suggested one of the scenes in _Old Mortality_. Scott there
speaks of Defoe's "liveliness of imagination," and says he "excelled
all others in dramatizing a story, and presenting it as if in actual
speech and action before the reader." (_Quarterly Review_, January,
1817.)]

[Footnote 215: See also _The Fortunes of Nigel_, Vol. II, pp. 88-9.]

[Footnote 216: _Life of Clara Reeve_.]

[Footnote 217: Blackwood, March, 1818.]

[Footnote 218: _Quarterly_, May, 1818.]

[Footnote 219: See a reference to Voltaire and other French authors;
_Napoleon_, Vol. I, ch. 2.]

[Footnote 220: _Life of Richardson_.]

[Footnote 221: We gather from Scott's article that he considered the
following to be the chief "speculative errors" of Bage: he was an
infidel; he misrepresented different classes of society, thinking the
high tyrannical and the low virtuous and generous; his system of
ethics was founded on philosophy instead of religion; he was inclined
to minimize the importance of purity in women; he considered
tax-gatherers extortioners, and soldiers, licensed murderers.]

[Footnote 222: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 132.]

[Footnote 223: Familiar Letters, Vol. I, p. 192. In his _George the
Third_, Thackeray said: "Do you remember the verses--the sacred
verses--which Johnson wrote on the death of his humble friend Levett?"
(Biographical edition of Thackeray, Vol. VII, p. 671.)]

[Footnote 224: _Life of Johnson_.]

[Footnote 225: Introduction to _Chronicles of the Canongate_.]

[Footnote 226: _Dryden_, Vol. XI, p. 81, note; Review of the _Life and
Works of John Home_, _Quarterly_, June, 1827.]

[Footnote 227: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 44.]

[Footnote 228: _Swift_, Vol. XVI, p. 275, note. On one of the last sad
days before Sir Walter left Scotland for his Italian journey he quoted
in full Prior's poem on Mezeray's History of France. (_Lockhart_, Vol.
V, pp. 339-4