[Footnote 357: _Rokeby_, Canto VI, stanza 26; _Waverley_, Vol. II, pp. 399-400; _Journal_, Vol. 1, p. 117; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, pp. 447-8.] [Footnote 358: Review of the _Life and Works of John Home_, _Quarterly_, June, 1827.] [Footnote 359: Review of Southery's _Life of Bunyan_, _Quarterly_, October, 1830.] [Footnote 360: _Quarterly_, January, 1817.] [Footnote 361: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, pp. 7-8.] [Footnote 362: _Quarterly_, November, 1809.] [Footnote 363: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 128.] [Footnote 364: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 129.] [Footnote 365: Epistle prefixed to Canto V.] [Footnote 366: Epistle prefixed to Canto III.] [Footnote 367: Hazlitt's _Spirit of the Age_, art. _Sir Walter Scott_; see _Letters to Heber_, p. 75 ff.] [Footnote 368: It is hard to say just how much he accomplished by the proof-reading, which, to judge by his Journal, he habitually performed. He wrote to Kirkpatrick Sharpe in 1809, after seeing a new number of the _Quarterly_: "I am a little disconcerted with the appearance of one or two of my own articles, which I have had no opportunity to revise in proof." (_Sharpe's Correspondence_, Vol. I, p. 370.) Lockhart gives an interesting sample of a sheet of Scott's poetry tentatively revised by Ballantyne and reworked by the author. (_Lockhart_, Vol. III, pp. 32-5.) It is certain that Ballantyne made many suggestions, some of which Scott accepted and some of which he summarily rejected. In Hogg's _Domestic Manners of Scott_ we find the following account of what the printer said when Hogg reported that Sir Walter was to correct some proofs for him: "He correct them for you! Lord help you and him both! I assure you if he had nobody to correct after him, there would be a bonny song through the country. He is the most careless and incorrect writer that ever was born, for a voluminous and popular writer, and as for sending a proof sheet to him, we may as well keep it in the office. He never heeds it.... He will never look at either your proofs or his own, unless it be for a few minutes amusement" (pp. 242-3). When he wrote to Miss Baillie that he had read the proofs of a play of hers which was being published in Edinburgh, he added, "but this will not ensure their being altogether correct, for in despite of great practice, Ballantyne insists I have a bad eye." (_Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 173.)] [Footnote 369: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 79; also 234 and 239; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, pp. 116 and 240.] [Footnote 370: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 117; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 448.] [Footnote 371: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, pp. 2 and 391.] [Footnote 372: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 72.] [Footnote 373: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 101.] [Footnote 374: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 113.] [Footnote 375: Essay on _Imitations of the Ancient Ballad_.]