This consideration will also account for his conduct in not renewing his challenge after Scott's offensive words. He had offered the man satisfaction and had been refused. No one is bound to go on challenging a reluctant adversary. At all times Lockhart seems to have been perfectly ready to back his opinion, as may be seen from a long affair which had happened earlier, in connection with the "Baron Lauerwinkel" matter. There he had promptly come forward and in his own name challenged the anonymous author of a pamphlet bearing the title of "Hypocrisy Unveiled." The anonym had, like Scott, shirked, and had maintained his anonymity. (Lord Cockburn says it was an open secret, but I do not know who he was.) Thereupon Lockhart took no further notice, just as he did in the later matter, and I do not believe that a court of honour in any country would find fault with him. At any rate, I think that we are entitled to know, much more definitely than I have ever seen it stated, what the charge against him is. We may indeed blame him in both these matters, and perhaps in others, for neglecting the sound rule that anonymous writing should never be personal. If he did this, however, he is in the same box with almost every writer for the press in his own generation, and with too many in this. I maintain that in each case he promptly gave the guarantee which the honour of his time required, and which is perhaps the only possible guarantee, that of being ready to answer in person for what he had written impersonally. This was all he could do, and he did it. INDEX Allen, Thomas, 113 Arnold, Matthew, 116, 257, 378 Austen, Jane, 29 _Blackwood's Magazine_, 37 _sqq._, 276 _sqq._, 343 _sqq._ Borrow, George, 403-439; his life, 403, 404; his excessive oddity, 404-411; his satiric and character-drawing faculty, 414-417; sketches of his books, 417-433; his general literary character, 433-439 Brougham, Lord, 107, 109 Burke, Edmund, 10 _sqq._ Burns, Robert, 34, 48, 53, 159, 160, 353 Byron, Lord, 3, 131, 132, 393 Canning, George, 75, 97, 200, 385 Carlyle, Thomas, 47, 270-272, 323, 369, 370 Coleridge, S. T., 141 Colvin, Mr. Sidney, 445 Courthope, Mr. W. J., 4 Crabbe, George, 1-32; the decline of his popularity, 1-5; sketch of his life, 6-12; his works and their characteristics, 13-20; their prosaic element, 20-25; was he a poet?, 25-32 Cunningham, Allan, 46, 53 Dante, 26, 218, 230, 231 Douglas, Scott, 41, 353 Dryden, John, 22, 30, 85, 232 Fitzgerald, Edward (translator of Omar Khayyám), 4 Flaubert, Gustave, 19 _Fraser's Magazine_, 359, 360 Gifford, William, 3, 21, 152 Hannay, Mr. David, 350 Hazlitt, William, 135-169; differing estimates of him, 135-140; his life, 140-146; his works, 146-169 ----xxi, xxii, 4, 24, 25, 130, 131, 217