him that it was beyond his own
power to distinguish what was original from what was borrowed, and
suggested the following Advertisement for the book:

"We believe by far the greater part of the poetry interspersed through
these novels to be original compositions by the author. At the same
time the reader will find passages which are quoted from other
authors, and may probably debit more of these than our more limited
reading has enabled us to ascertain. Indeed, it is our opinion that
some of the following poetry is neither entirely original nor
altogether borrowed, but consists in some instances of passages from
other authors, which the author has not hesitated to alter
considerably, either to supply defects of his own memory, or to adapt
the quotation more explicitly and aptly to the matter in hand."
(_Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, pp. 222-3.)]

[Footnote 400: "I have taught nearly a hundred gentlemen to fence very
nearly, if not altogether, as well as myself," he said. (_Journal_,
Vol. I, p. 167. See also pp. 273-5.)]

[Footnote 401: _Journal_, Vol. I, pp. 275-6; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p.
45.]

[Footnote 402: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, pp. 322 and 492; Vol. V, p. 186.]

[Footnote 403: _Ibid._, Vol. IV, p. 110.]

[Footnote 404: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 106, and _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p.
162.]

[Footnote 405: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, pp. 33-4.]

[Footnote 406: _Ibid._, Vol. III, p. 259.]

[Footnote 407: _Waverley_, Vol. I, pp. 112-3. See also Mackenzie's
_Life of Scott_, p. 364.]

[Footnote 408: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 29.]

[Footnote 409: _Journal_, Vol. I, pp. 274-5; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p.
44. See also his review of Godwin's _Life of Chaucer_.]

[Footnote 410: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 103.]

[Footnote 411: _Ibid._, Vol. IV, p. 260.]

[Footnote 412: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 96.]

[Footnote 413: Review of Tytler's _History of Scotland_, _Quarterly_,
November, 1829.]

[Footnote 414: _Southey's Letters_, Vol. IV, p. 62.]

[Footnote 415: Herford's _Age of Wordsworth_, pp. 39-40.]

[Footnote 416: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 60.]

[Footnote 417: _Paul's Letters_, Letter XVI.]

[Footnote 418: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 320.]

[Footnote 419: On Goethe's favorable opinion of the _Napoleon_, see a
letter given in the appendix to Scott's _Journal_ (Vol. II, pp. 485-6
and note).]

[Footnote 420: Carlyle's _Essay on Scott_. See also Taine'