0.)]

[Footnote 229: _Swift_, Vol. III, p. 36.]

[Footnote 230: _Ibid._, Vol. XIII, p. 24.]

[Footnote 231: _Correspondence of C.K. Sharpe_, Vol. II, p. 194.]

[Footnote 232: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 67; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 401.]

[Footnote 233: Allan Cunningham's _Life of Scott_, p. 96.]

[Footnote 234: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 483.]

[Footnote 235: See the satirical paragraph in his review of _Gertrude
of Wyoming_, on the habits of reviewers in general. "We are perfectly
aware," he says, "that, according to the modern canons of criticism,
the Reviewer is expected to show his immense superiority to the author
reviewed, and at the same time to relieve the tediousness of
narration, by turning the epic, dramatic, moral story before him into
quaint and lively burlesque." (_Quarterly_, May, 1809.) In his review
of the _Life and Works of John Home_ he speaks of "the hackneyed rules
of criticism, which, having crushed a hundred poets, will never, it
may be prophesied, create, or assist in creating, a single one."
(_Quarterly_, June, 1827.)]

[Footnote 236: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 363.]

[Footnote 237: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 501. For a further comparison of
Scott and Jeffrey as critics see below, pp. 134-5.]

[Footnote 238: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 204.]

[Footnote 239: _Ibid._, Vol. V, p. 97.]

[Footnote 240: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 262]

[Footnote 241: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 173]

[Footnote 242: In general Scott admired Lockhart. "I have known the
most able men of my time," he once wrote, "and I never met any one who
had such ready command of his own mind, and possessed in a greater
degree the power of making his talents available upon the shortest
notice, and upon any subject." (_Life of Murray_, Vol. II, p. 222.)
But in Lockhart's earlier days Scott said, "I am sometimes angry with
him for an exuberant love of fun in his light writings, which he has
caught, I think, from Wilson, a man of greater genius than himself
perhaps, but who disputes with low adversaries, which I think a
terrible error, and indulges in a sort of humour which exceeds the
bounds of playing at ladies and gentlemen, a game to which I have been
partial all my life." (_Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart_, p. 225.)]

[Footnote 243: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 400.]

[Footnote 244: Lang's _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 406.]

[Footnote 245: _Life of Murray_, Vol. I, pp. 146-7.]