[Footnote 475: _Essay on Judicial Reform_, _Edinburgh Annual Register_, Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 352. Everyone knows that Scott was a decided Tory, and it is commonly supposed that he was an extremely prejudiced partisan. But he closes a political passage in _Woodstock_ with these words: "We hasten to quit political reflections, the rather that ours, we believe, will please neither Whig nor Tory." (End of Chapter 11.) From the definitions of Whig and Tory given in the _Tales of a Grandfather_, no one could guess his politics. (Chapter 53.)] [Footnote 476: Leigh Hunt's _Autobiography_, Vol. I, p. 263. See also pp. 258-260, and the notes on his _Feast of the Poets_.] [Footnote 477: Courthope's _Liberal Movement_, p. 122.] [Footnote 478: _Life of Murray_, Vol. II, p. 159.] [Footnote 479: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 232] [Footnote 480: _Macmillan's Magazine_, lxx: 326.] [Footnote 481: Newman's _Apologia_, pp. 96-97. Mark Twain thinks the influence of the novels was pernicious. He says: "A curious exemplification of the power of a single book for good or harm is shown in the effects wrought by Don Quixote and those wrought by Ivanhoe. The first swept the world's admiration for the mediaeval chivalry-silliness out of existence; and the other restored it.... Sir Walter had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible for the war." (_Life on the Mississippi_, ch. xlvi.)] [Footnote 482: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, pp. 216-17. See also his remarks upon booksellers in his review of Pitcairn's _Ancient Criminal Trials_, _Quarterly_, February, 1831.] [Footnote 483: _Fraser's_, xiii: 693.] [Footnote 484: Essay on Dunbar in _Ephemera Critica_.] [Footnote 485: _English Historical Review_, vi: 97.] [Footnote 486: _Life, Letters and Journals of George Ticknor_, Vol. I, p. 283.] [Footnote 487: Carlyle's _Essay on Scott_.] [Footnote 488: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 9.] [Footnote 489: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 259; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 248.] [Footnote 490: _Dryden_, Vol. I, conclusion.] [Footnote 491: _British Novelists and their Styles_, p. 204.] [Footnote 492: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 173; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 99.] [Footnote 493: _History of Criticism_, Vol. I, p. 156.] [Footnote 494: _Recollections of Scott_ by R.P. Gillies, _Fraser's_, xii: 688.]