There was but one course open to Scott; accordingly to Lockhart, "he assured Mr. Jeffrey that the article had not disturbed his digestion, though he hoped neither his booksellers nor the public would agree with the opinions it expressed, and begged he would come to dinner at the hour previously appointed. Mr. Jeffrey appeared accordingly, and was received by his host with the frankest cordiality, but had the mortification to observe that the mistress of the house, though perfectly polite, was not quite so easy with him as usual. She, too, behaved herself with exemplary civility during the dinner, but could not help saying, in her broken English, when her guest was departing, 'Well, good night, Mr. Jeffrey. Dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr. Constable has paid _you_ very well for writing it.'" Jeffrey's article apparently had little influence on the sale of _Marmion_, which reached eight editions (25,000 copies) in three years. In October, 1808, the _Edinburgh Review_ published an appreciative review of Scott's edition of Dryden, and afterwards received with favor the later poems and the principal Waverley Novels. 78. _Mr. Thomas Inkle_. The story of Inkle and Yarico was related by Steele in no. 11 of the _Spectator_. It was afterwards dramatized (1787) by George Colman. LORD BYRON The twentieth number of the _Edinburgh Review_ contained Jeffrey's long article on Wordsworth's _Poems_ (1807); the twenty-second contained his review of Scott's _Marmion_; and the twenty-first (January, 1808) contained a still more famous critique, long attributed to Jeffrey--the review of Byron's _Hours of Idleness_ (1807). It is reprinted from _Edinburgh Rev._, XI (285-289) in Stevenson's _Early Reviews_ and forms Appendix II of R.E. Prothero's edition of Byron's _Letters and Journals_. We know definitely that the article was written by Henry Brougham. (See Prothero, op. cit., II, p. 397, and Sir M.E. Grant Duff's _Notes from a Diary_, II, p. 189.)