[5] "Works of Richard Owen Cambridge," pp. 198-99. Cambridge was one of the Spenserian imitators. See _ante_, p. 89, _note_. In Lady Luxborough's correspondence with Shenstone there is much mention of a Mr. Miller, a neighboring proprietor, who was devoted to Gothic. On the appearance of "The Scribleriad," she writes (January 28, 1751), "I imagine this poem is not calculated to please Mr. Miller and the rest of the Gothic gentlemen; for this Mr. Cambridge expresses a dislike to the introducing or reviving tastes and fashions that are inferior to the modern taste of our country." [6] "History of the Gothic Revival," p. 43. [7] "Works of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford," in five volumes, 1798. "A Description of Strawberry Hill," Vol. II. pp. 395-516. [8] Pugin's "True Principles of Gothic Architecture" was published in 1841. [9] "Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers," A. Hayward (1880). In a note to "Marmion" (1808) Scott said that the ruins of Crichton Castle, remarkable for the richness and elegance of its stone carvings, were then used as a cattle-pen and a sheep-fold. [10] "Hours in a Library," Second Series: article, "Horace Walpole." [11] Letter to Bentley, February 23, 1755. [12] Five hundred copies, says Walpole, were struck off December 24, 1764. [13] "The Mysterious Mother," begun 1766, finished 1768. [14] "The Castle of Otranto" was dramatized by Robert Jephson, under the title "The Count of Narbonne," put on at Covent Garden Theater in 1781, and afterward printed, with a dedication to Walpole. [15] James Beattie, "Dissertation on Fable and Romance." "Argenius," was printed in 1621. [16] "The Dictionary of National Biography" miscalls it "Earl of Canterbury," and attributes it, though with a query, to _John_ Leland. [17] See also, for a notice of this writer, Julia Kavanagh's "English Women of Letters." [18] Maturin's "Melmoth the Wanderer" (1820) had some influence on the French romantic school and was utilized, in some particulars, by Balzac. [19] Following is a list of Mrs. Radcliffe's romances: "The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne" (1789); "Sicilian Romance" (1790); "Romance of the Forest" (1791); "Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794); "The Italian" (1797); "Gaston de Blondville" (1826). Collections of her poems were published in 1816, 1834, and 1845. [20] See "Childe Harold," canto iv, xviii. [21] "Roundabout Papers," "A Peal of Bells." "Monk" Lewis wrote at sixteen a burlesque novel, "Effusions of Sensibility," which remained in MS. [22] "O Radcliffe, thou once wert the charmer Of girls who sat reading all night: They heroes were striplings in armor, Thy heroines, damsels in white." --_Songs, Ballads and Other Poems_. By Thos. Haynes Bayly, London, 1857, p. 141.