809.]

[Footnote 348: Editor's Introduction to _Montrose_, Border edition of
the Waverley Novels.]

[Footnote 349: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 125.]

[Footnote 350: _Quarterly_, January, 1817. Scott evidently wrote this
article chiefly for the purpose of defending the historical accuracy
of _Old Mortality_. He also wished to show that _The Black Dwarf_ was
founded on fact; and he devoted some space, as will appear in the
passage quoted below (pp. 111-112), to a discussion of the artistic
aspects of these and the earlier Waverly novels.]

[Footnote 351: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 269.]

[Footnote 352: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 276.]

[Footnote 353: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 96.]

[Footnote 354: Introductory epistle to _Nigel_; _Fam. Let._, Vol. I,
p. 28.]

[Footnote 355: Introduction to the _Monastery_.]

[Footnote 356: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 258.]

[Footnote 357: _Rokeby_, Canto VI, stanza 26; _Waverley_, Vol. II, pp.
399-400; _Journal_, Vol. 1, p. 117; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, pp. 447-8.]

[Footnote 358: Review of the _Life and Works of John Home_,
_Quarterly_, June, 1827.]

[Footnote 359: Review of Southery's _Life of Bunyan_, _Quarterly_,
October, 1830.]

[Footnote 360: _Quarterly_, January, 1817.]

[Footnote 361: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, pp. 7-8.]

[Footnote 362: _Quarterly_, November, 1809.]

[Footnote 363: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 128.]

[Footnote 364: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 129.]

[Footnote 365: Epistle prefixed to Canto V.]

[Footnote 366: Epistle prefixed to Canto III.]

[Footnote 367: Hazlitt's _Spirit of the Age_, art. _Sir Walter Scott_;
see _Letters to Heber_, p. 75 ff.]

[Footnote 368: It is hard to say just how much he accomplished by the
proof-reading, which, to judge by his Journal, he habitually
performed. He wrote to Kirkpatrick Sharpe in 1809, after seeing a new
number of the _Quarterly_: "I am a little disconcerted with the
appearance of one or two of my own articles, which I have had no
opportunity to revise in proof." (_Sharpe's Correspondence_, Vol. I,
p. 370.) Lockhart gives an interesting sample of a sheet of Scott's
poetry tentatively revised by Ballantyne and reworked by the author.
(_Lockhart_, Vol. III, pp. 32-5.) It is certain that Ballantyne made
many suggestions, some of which Scott accepted and some of which he
summarily rejected. In Hogg's _Domestic Manners of Scott_ we find the