the "Ebony and Shandrydan School"--as the writer pleases to call the _Blackwood's_ group. Another interesting pamphlet of like nature is _The Scorpion Critic Unmasked; or Animadversions on a Pretended Review of "Fleurs, a Poem, in Four Books," which appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for June, 1821, in a Letter to a Friend_.[457] _Blackwood's_ had called Nathaniel John Hollingsworth, the author of the poem, and others of his type, the "Leg of Mutton School."[458] Nothing in fact seems to have given this magazine so much malicious delight as to create schools, perhaps in a spirit of rivalry with the "Lake School" of the _Edinburgh Review_. In the preceding April the "Manchester School" had been presented by _Blackwood's_ to the public. Hollingsworth in turn created the "Scorpion School" in order to deride _Blackwood's_. Other pamphlets of the same kind were _Rebellion again Gulliver; or R-D-C-L-SM in Lilliput_. _A Poetical Fragment from a Lilliputian Manuscript_, an anonymous publication which appeared in Edinburgh in 1820; _Aspersions answered: an explanatory Statement, advanced to the Public at Large, and to Every Reader of The Quarterly Review in Particular_;[459] and _Another Article for the Quarterly Review_;[460] both by William Hone in reply to the charge of irreligion made by the _Quarterly_ against him. William Blackwood, John Wilson or "Christopher North," Lockhart, and perhaps Maginn, share the blame severally of _Blackwood's_; while in the case of the _Quarterly_, to Gifford and Southey, already mentioned, must be added Sir Walter Scott and Croker. The two last certainly countenanced the actions of the others, even if they took no more active part. There seems to be no way of determining the individual authorship of the various articles. It was a secret jealously guarded at the time and it is unlikely that any further disclosures will come to light. The victims themselves hazarded as many guesses as more recent critics with no greater degree of certainty. Leigh Hunt thought that the articles were written by Sir Walter Scott;[461] Hazlitt said, "To pay those fellows _in their own coin_, the way would be to begin with Walter Scott _and have at his clump foot_;"[462] Charles Dilke thought that the articles were written by Lockhart with the encouragement of Scott;[463] Haydon thought that "Z" was Terry the actor, an intimate of the Blackwood party, who had been exasperated because Hunt had failed to notice him in _The Examiner_;[464] Shelley fancied that the articles in the _Quarterly_ were by Southey, and, on his denial, attributed them to Henry Hart Milman.[465] Mrs. Oliphant in her two ponderous volumes, _William Blackwood and His Sons_, practically asserts that "Z" was Lockhart.[466] If the extent of her research is to be the gauge of its value, her opinion is a very valuable one. Mr. Colvin advances the theory that "Z" was Wilson or Lockhart, possibly revised by William Blackwood.[467] Mr.