FOOTNOTES: 

[431] The British Herald, by Thomas Robson, 3 vols. 4to, 1830.  Mr. Lockhart says this review never was published.

[432] Mr. Andrew Lang, Sheriff and Commissary Clerk, and Clerk of Peace, for Selkirkshire, grandfather of Mr. Andrew Lang, the accomplished poet and man of letters of the present time.  The tact and ability of the grandfather are noticed by Sir Walter in his letter to Lord Montagu of Oct. 3, 1819, describing Prince Leopold at Selkirk.—­Life, vol. vi. p. 131.

[433] This proposal, resisted successfully in 1832, has since been put in force so far as Parliament is concerned.

[434] I Henry IV., Act II.  Sc. 3.

[435] Taming of the Shrew, Introd.

[436] As this is the last reference to the Ettrick Shepherd in the Journal, it may be noted that Sir Walter, as late as March 23d, 1832, was still desirous to promote Hogg’s welfare.  In writing from Naples he says, in reference to the Shepherd’s social success in London, “I am glad Hogg has succeeded so well.  I hope he will make hay while the sun shines; but he must be aware that the Lion of this season always becomes the Boar of the next....  I will subscribe the proper sum, i.e. what you think right, for Hogg, by all means; and I pray God, keep farms and other absurd temptations likely to beset him out of his way.  He has another chance for comfort if he will use common sense with his very considerable genius.”

[437] This expression of irritation can easily be understood after reading the passages referred to in the twenty-ninth volume of Blackwood’s Magazine, pp. 30-35, and 535-544.  Readers of this Journal have seen what uphill work these “Letters on Demonology” were to the author, but the unsparing criticism of Christopher North must have appeared to the author as a very unfriendly act, more especially, he thought, if the critic really knew the conditions under which the book had been written.

[438] Mr. Lockhart says:—­“He proposed one of the Tory resolutions in a speech of some length, but delivered in a tone so low, and with such hesitation in utterance, that only a few detached passages were intelligible to the bulk of the audience.”—­See Life, vol. x. pp. 46-8.

[439] The passing of the great Reform Bill in the House of Commons on the 22d March.

[440] His friend Richardson, who was a Whig, writes him from London on February 14:—­“What a singular feeling it was to me to find Brougham Lord Chancellor, and Jeffrey and Cockburn in their present stations!  I am afraid that the spirit of reform goes at present beyond the limits to which even the Government will go—­and but for the large stock of good sense and feeling which I think yet pervades the country, I should tremble for the future.”

[441] Merry Wives, Act I. Sc. 1.

[442] Stulko or Stulk (? Stocaire, in Irish), a word formerly in common use among the Irish, signifying an idle, lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.