line 17. This hearty wish is uttered, no doubt, with certain reminiscences of the author's own school days. His youthful spirit, and his genial sympathy with the young, are prominent features in the character of Sir Walter Scott. Footnotes: {1} Lockhart quotes:--'He resumed the bishopric of Lindisfarne, which, owing to bad health, he again relinquished within less than three months before his death.'--RAINE'S St. Cuthbert. {2} See, on this curious subject, the Essay on Fairies, in the "Border Minstrelsy," vol. ii, under the fourth head; also Jackson on Unbelief, p. 175. Chaucer calls Pluto the "King of Faerie"; and Dunbar names him, "Pluto, that elrich incubus." If he was not actually the devil, he must be considered as the "prince of the power of the air." The most curious instance of these surviving classical superstitions is that of the Germans, concerning the Hill of Venus, into which she attempts to entice all gallant knights, and detains them there in a sort of Fools' Paradise. {3} See Pennant's Tour in Wales. {4} 'First Edition--Mr. Brydone has been many years dead. 1825.' {5} '"Lesquels Escossois descendirent la montaigne in bonne ordre, en la maniere que marchent Its Allemans, sans parler, ne faire aucun bruit"--Gazette of the Battle, PINKERTON'S History, Appendix, vol. ii. p. 456.'