[Footnote 214: Mr. G.A. Aitken has given convincing evidence that the story was not invented by Defoe. Mr. Aitken also shows the falsity of Scott's statement that Drelincourt's book was in need of advertising, as William Lee, in his _Life of Defoe_, had previously done. (See _The Nineteenth Century_, xxxvii: 95. January, 1895; and also Aitken's edition of Defoe's _Romances and Narratives_, Vol. XV, Introduction.) A passage from Defoe's _History of the Church of Scotland_ is quoted in the review of _Tales of My Landlord_, by Scott, who says that it probably suggested one of the scenes in _Old Mortality_. Scott there speaks of Defoe's "liveliness of imagination," and says he "excelled all others in dramatizing a story, and presenting it as if in actual speech and action before the reader." (_Quarterly Review_, January, 1817.)] [Footnote 215: See also _The Fortunes of Nigel_, Vol. II, pp. 88-9.] [Footnote 216: _Life of Clara Reeve_.] [Footnote 217: Blackwood, March, 1818.] [Footnote 218: _Quarterly_, May, 1818.] [Footnote 219: See a reference to Voltaire and other French authors; _Napoleon_, Vol. I, ch. 2.] [Footnote 220: _Life of Richardson_.] [Footnote 221: We gather from Scott's article that he considered the following to be the chief "speculative errors" of Bage: he was an infidel; he misrepresented different classes of society, thinking the high tyrannical and the low virtuous and generous; his system of ethics was founded on philosophy instead of religion; he was inclined to minimize the importance of purity in women; he considered tax-gatherers extortioners, and soldiers, licensed murderers.] [Footnote 222: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 132.] [Footnote 223: Familiar Letters, Vol. I, p. 192. In his _George the Third_, Thackeray said: "Do you remember the verses--the sacred verses--which Johnson wrote on the death of his humble friend Levett?" (Biographical edition of Thackeray, Vol. VII, p. 671.)] [Footnote 224: _Life of Johnson_.] [Footnote 225: Introduction to _Chronicles of the Canongate_.] [Footnote 226: _Dryden_, Vol. XI, p. 81, note; Review of the _Life and Works of John Home_, _Quarterly_, June, 1827.] [Footnote 227: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 44.] [Footnote 228: _Swift_, Vol. XVI, p. 275, note. On one of the last sad days before Sir Walter left Scotland for his Italian journey he quoted in full Prior's poem on Mezeray's History of France. (_Lockhart_, Vol. V, pp. 339-40.)] [Footnote 229: _Swift_, Vol. III, p. 36.] [Footnote 230: _Ibid._, Vol. XIII, p. 24.] [Footnote 231: _Correspondence of C.K. Sharpe_, Vol. II, p. 194.] [Footnote 232: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 67; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 401.] [Footnote 233: Allan Cunningham's _Life of Scott_, p. 96.] [Footnote 234: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 483.]