, p. 295; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 62.]

[Footnote 328: The reference as given by Lockhart is as follows: "This
man, who has shown so much genius, has a good deal of the manners, or
want of manners, peculiar to his countrymen." (_Lockhart_, Vol. V, p.
62.) Cooper observes in regard to this point: "The manners of most
Europeans strike us as exaggerated, while we appear cold to them. Sir
Walter Scott was certainly so obliging as to say many flattering
things to me, which I, as certainly, did not repay in kind. As Johnson
said of his interview with George the Third, it was not for me to
bandy compliments with my sovereign. At that time the diary was a
sealed book to the world, and I did not know the importance he
attached to such civilities." It is a pity that the transcriber of the
passage in the _Journal_ changed "manner," which was the word Scott
wrote, to the more objectionable "manners." (_Journal_, Vol. I, p.
295.)]

[Footnote 329: Scott's letter was substantially as follows: "I have
considered in all its bearings the matter which your kindness has
suggested. Upon many former occasions I have been urged by my friends
in America to turn to some advantage the sale of my writings in your
country, and render that of pecuniary avail as an individual which I
feel as the highest compliment as an author. I declined all these
proposals, because the sale of this country produced me as much profit
as I desired, and more--far more--than I deserved. But my late heavy
losses have made my situation somewhat different, and have rendered it
a point of necessity and even duty to neglect no means of making the
sale of my works effectual to the extrication of my affairs, which can
be honorably and honestly resorted to. If therefore Mr. Carey, or any
other publishing gentleman of credit and character, should think it
worth while to accept such an offer, I am willing to convey to him the
exclusive right of publishing the _Life of Napoleon_, and my future
works in America, making it always a condition, which indeed will be
dictated by the publisher's own interest, that this monopoly shall not
be used for the purpose of raising the price of the work to my
American readers, but only for that of supplying the public at the
usual terms....

"At any rate, if what I propose should not be found of force to
prevent piracy, I cannot but think from the generosity and justice of