[14] _Notes and Queries_, Series VIII, IX, 366. In Smollett's _Ferdinand Count Fathom_, Chap. XXXIX, Captain Miniken recommends as "modern authors that are worth reading" the _Adventures of Loveill, Lady Frail, Bampfylde Moore Carew, Young Scarron_, and _Miss Betsy Thoughtless_. See also A.L. Barbauld, _Correspondence of Samuel Richardson_ (1804), IV, 55-6, and the _Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delaney_ (1861), First series, III, 79, 214. [15] J.G. Lockhart, _Life of Scott_, Everyman edition, 34. Coleridge's _Letters_, I, 368. [16] W. Scott, _Old Mortality_, Conclusion. Goethe's _Werke_ (E. Schmidt, Leipsig, 1910), III, 17. [17] That the _Monthly's_ review of _Betsy Thoughtless_, complaining of that novel's lack of "those entertaining introductory chapters, and digressive essays, which distinguish the works of a _Fielding_, a _Smollett_, or the author of _Pompey_ the little," rankled in the fair novelist's memory is illustrated by a retort in her next work, _Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy_, III, Chap. XVIII, which "contains none of those beautiful digressions, those remarks or reflections, which a certain would-be critick pretends are so much distinguished in the writings of his two favorite authors; yet it is to be hoped, will afford sufficient to please all those who are willing to be pleased." For the review of _Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy_, see _Monthly Review_, VIII, 77. [18] A possible return to scandal-mongering should be noted. _Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_, Everyman edition, 461. "You should have given me a key to the Invisible Spy, particularly to the catalogue of books in it. I know not whether the conjugal happiness of the D. of B. [Duke of Bedford] is intended as a compliment or an irony." [19] _Gentleman's Magazine_, XXIV, 560, December 1754. [20] _Critical Review_, LXV; 236, March 1788. CHAPTER VIII CONCLUSION