r Walter Scott_, p. 36.) Apparently Scott
never dreamed that the matter could be looked at in this way. In
Lockhart's _Scott_ (Vol. II, pp. 77-8) we find described an occasion
on which the two men once met in London, when they were asked, with
other poets who were present, to recite from their unpublished
writings. Coleridge complied with the request, but Scott said he had
nothing of his own and would repeat some stanzas he had seen in a
newspaper. The poem was criticised adversely in spite of Scott's
protests, till Coleridge lost patience and exclaimed, "Let Mr. Scott
alone; I wrote the poem." Coleridge's lines:

"The Knight's bones are dust
And his good sword rust,
His soul is with the saints, I trust,"

are probably much better known as they appear in _Ivanhoe_,
incorrectly quoted, than in their proper form. Scott also added a note
on Coleridge in this connection. (_Ivanhoe_, Chapter VIII.)]

[Footnote 258: But apparently not in any earlier than _The Black
Dwarf_, which was written in 1816, the year in which the poem was
published. It was about 1803 that Scott heard _Christabel_ recited.
See _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 221.]

[Footnote 259: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 356.]

[Footnote 260: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 315.]

[Footnote 261: See _Letters to Heber_, p. 293; _On Imitations of the
Ancient Ballad_; _Lockhart_, Vol. III, pp. 56 and 264; _Quentin
Durward_, Vol. II, p. 394.]

[Footnote 262: Note in _The Abbot_.]

[Footnote 263: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 223.]

[Footnote 264: Note in _St. Ronan's Well_. See also the comment on
_Wallenstein_ in _Paul's Letters_, Letter XV.]

[Footnote 265: Review of _Childe Harold_, _Canto III_, _Quarterly_,
October, 1816.]

[Footnote 266: In 1818 Scott wrote a review of _Frankenstein_ in which
it appears that he thought Shelley was the author. Shelley had sent
the book with a note in which he said that it was the work of a friend
and he had merely seen it through the press; and Scott took this for
the conventional evasion so often resorted to by authors. (See Mr.
Lang's note in his Introduction to the Waverley Novels, p. lxxxvi.)
Scott praises the substance and style of the book, and advises the
author to cultivate his poetical powers, in words which make it
evident that he did not know Shelley as a poet, though _Alastor_ had
appeared in 1816. Scott also praises _Frankenste