[Footnote 7: Ruskin's remark that "The excellence of Scott's work is precisely in proportion to the degree in which it is sketched from present nature," should not necessarily lead on to the condemnation which follows: "He does not see how anything is to be got out of the past but confusion, old iron on drawing-room chairs, and serious inconvenience to Dr. Heavysterne." (_Modern Painters_, Part IV, ch. 16, Sec. 32.)] [Footnote 8: _Letters to Richard Heber_, etc. (by J.L. Adolphus), pp. 136-137.] [Footnote 9: Mr. Herford distinguishes two lines of romantic sentiment--"the one pursuing the image of the past as a refuge from reality, the other as a portion of it: the mediaevalism of Tieck and the mediaevalism of Scott." _The Age of Wordsworth_, Introduction, p. xxiv, note.] [Footnote 10: _Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart_, p. 249.] [Footnote 11: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 333; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 81. The edition of Lockhart's _Life of Scott_ to which reference is made throughout this study is that in five volumes, published by Macmillan & Co. in the "Library of English Classics."] [Footnote 12: Chesterton, _Varied Types_, pp. 161-2.] [Footnote 13: The fact that Scott was a Clerk of the Court of Sessions is remembered less frequently than the fact that he had business complications. But this employment of his, which could be undertaken only by a lawyer, occupied a large proportion of his time during twenty-four years. He once wrote, "I cannot work well after I have had four or five hours of the court, for though the business is trifling, yet it requires constant attention, which is at length exhausting." (_Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, p. 195.) Again he wrote, "I saw it reported that Joseph Hume said I composed novels at the clerk's table; but Joseph Hume said what neither was nor could be correct, as any one who either knew what belonged to composing novels, or acting as clerk to a court of justice, would easily have discovered." (_Memoirs of Sir William Knighton_, p. 252.)] [Footnote 14: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 60; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 390.] [Footnote 15: See the Memoir prefixed to the Globe Edition of Scott's poems.] [Footnote 16: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 217.] [Footnote 17: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 447.] [Footnote 18: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 122.] [Footnote 19: Cooper measured his own success by the same test. At the conclusion of the Letter to the Publisher with which _The Pioneers_ originally opened he said he should look to his publisher for "the only true account of the reception of his book." (Lounsbury's _Life of Cooper_, pp. 43-4.)] [Footnote 20: _Napoleon_, Vol. I, ch. 2.]