s _History
of English Literature_, Introduction, I.]

[Footnote 421: Review of _Metrical Romances_, _Edinburgh Review_,
January, 1806.]

[Footnote 422: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 333.]

[Footnote 423: _The Pirate_, Vol. II, p. 138.]

[Footnote 424: Introductory Epistle to _Ivanhoe_. Freeman, in his
_Norman Conquest_, vigorously attacks _Ivanhoe_ for its unwarranted
picture of the relations between Saxons and Normans in the thirteenth
century. (Vol. V, pp. 551-561.)]

[Footnote 425: Mr. Lang points out that he made many written notes of
his reading, as we should hardly expect a man of his unrivalled memory
to do. (_Life of Scott_, p. 27.)]

[Footnote 426: _Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, p. 161.]

[Footnote 427: _Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, pp. 93-4.]

[Footnote 428: _Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart_, p. 247.]

[Footnote 429: Mr. Lang's theory that Scott was responsible for a
decline in serious reading cannot be either proved or refuted
completely, but more than one man has given personal testimony
concerning the stimulating effect of the Waverley novels. Thierry's
_Norman Conquest_ was directly inspired by _Ivanhoe_, and with
_Ivanhoe_ is condemned by Freeman for its mistaken views. Mr. Andrew
D. White says in his _Autobiography_ that _Quentin Durward_ and _Anne
of Geierstein_ led him to see the first that he had ever clearly
discerned of the great principles that "lie hidden beneath the surface
of events"--"the secret of the centralization of power in Europe, and
of the triumph of monarchy over feudalism." (Vol. I, pp. 15-16.)]

[Footnote 430: Scott had theories as to what children's books ought to
be. They should stir the imagination, he said, instead of simply
imparting knowledge as certain scientific books attempted to do.
(_Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 27.) But he seriously objected to any attempt
to write down to the understanding of children. Of the _Tales of a
Grandfather_ he said: "I will make, if possible, a book that a child
shall understand, yet a man will feel some temptation to peruse,
should he chance to take it up." (_Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 112. See also
_ib._, Vol. I, p. 19.) Anatole France has expressed ideas about
children's books which are practically the same as those of Scott.
(See _Le Livre de Mon Ami_, 3me partie: "A Madame D * * *.")]

[Footnote 431: Introduction to _The Fortunes of Nigel_.]

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