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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.]