[Footnote 191: Colonel Parnell, writing in the _English Historical Review_ on "Dean Swift and the Memoirs of Captain Carleton," has spoken of the biography as "this most partial, verbose, and inaccurate account of the dean's life and writings." He says also that in editing _Carleton's Memoirs_ Scott adopted, without investigation and in the face of evidence, Johnson's opinion that the memoirs were genuine; that Scott was mistaken about the date of the first edition and misquoted the title page; and that his "glowing account" of Lord Peterborough, in the introduction, was amplified (without acknowledgment) from a panegyric by Dr. Birch in "Houbraken's Heads." (_English Historical Review_, January, 1891; vi: 97. For a further reference to the article see below, p. 144.)] [Footnote 192: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 20.] [Footnote 193: September, 1816.] [Footnote 194: _Swift_ Vol. XVII, p. 4, note.] [Footnote 195: _Life of Swift_, conclusion.] [Footnote 196: _Swift_, Vol. XI, p. 12.] [Footnote 197: Vol. IX, p. 569. The tract had already been correctly assigned. A similar note on another tract indicates more careful research on the part of the editor. The paper is _A Secret History of One Year_, which had commonly been attributed to Robert Walpole. Scott says: "This tract in not to found in Mr. Coxe's list of Sir Robert Walpole's publications, nor in that given by his son, the Earl of Oxford, in the Royal and Noble Authors.... It does not seem at all probable that Walpole should at this crisis have thought it proper to advocate these principles." (Vol. XIII, p. 873.) The piece is now attributed to Defoe.] [Footnote 198: See above, p. 4.] [Footnote 199: _Horace Walpole_, in _Lives of the Novelists_.] [Footnote 200: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 512.] [Footnote 201: _Quarterly_, September, 1826.] [Footnote 202: See his explanation, in the articles themselves.] [Footnote 203: _The Mid-Eighteenth Century_, by J.H. Millar, p. 143, note.] [Footnote 204: _Ibid._, p. 159. Scott compares Fielding and Smollett at some length in the _Life of Smollett_.] [Footnote 205: _Life of Le Sage_.] [Footnote 206: _Life of Richardson_.] [Footnote 207: _Life of Fielding_.] [Footnote 208: _Life of Goldsmith_. As we might expect, Scott speaks rather too favorably of Goldsmith's hack work in history and science.] [Footnote 209: _Life of Sterne_.] [Footnote 210: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 35.] [Footnote 211: See above, p. 53, note.] [Footnote 212: See also the Introductory epistle to _Ivanhoe_; and the Review of _Walpole's Letters_. "In attaining his contemporary triumph," says Mr. Brander Matthews, "Scott owed more to Horace Walpole than to Maria Edgeworth." _The Historical Novel_, p. 10.] [Footnote 213: Scott uses the word.]