“Waken, lords and ladies gay,
    On the mountain dawns the day.”

[24] See vol. i., pp. 277 and 390.

[25] The Glen of the Green Women.

[26] “And still I thought that shattered tower
     The mightiest work of human power;
     And marvelled as the aged hind
     With some strange tale bewitched my mind,
     Of foragers who, with headlong force,
     Down from that strength had spurred their horse,
     Their Southern rapine to renew,
     Far in the distant Cheviots blue;
     And, home returning, filled the hall
     With revel, wassail-rout and brawl.”—­“Marmion.”  Introduction
to Canto Third.  See Lockhart for a description of the view from
Smailholme, a propos of the stanza in “The Eve of St. John”: 

  “That lady sat in mournful mood;
    Looked over hill and vale: 
  O’ver Tweed’s fair flood, and Mertoun’s wood,
    And all down Teviot dale.”

[27] See vol. i., pp. 394-395.

[28] Scott’s verse “is touched both with the facile redundance of the mediaeval romances in which he was steeped, and with the meretricious phraseology of the later eighteenth century, which he was too genuine a literary Tory wholly to put aside.”—­“The Age of Wordsworth,” C. H. Herford, London. 1897.

[29] “The Gray Brother” in vol. iii. of the “Minstrelsy.”

[30] “And goblin brats, of Gilpin Horner’s brood,
     Decoy young border-nobles through the wood,
     And skip at every step, Lord knows how high,
     And frighten foolish babes, the Lord knows why.”

[31] “Now leave we Margaret and her knight
     To tell you of the approaching fight.”—­Canto Fifth, xiii.

[32] Landor says oddly of Warton that he “had lost his ear by laying it down on low swampy places, on ballads and sonnets.”

[33] Does not the quarrel of Richard and Philip in “The Talisman” remind one irresistibly of Achilles and Agamemnon in the “Iliad”?

[34] For a review of English historical fiction before Scott, consult Professor Cross’ “Development of the English Novel,” pp. 110-114.

[35] “Familiar Studies of Men and Books,” by R. L. Stevenson.  Article, “Victor Hugo’s Romances.”

[36] “Le Roman Historique a l’Epoque Romantique.”  Essai sur l’influence de Walter Scott.  Par Louis Maigron.  Paris (Hachette). 1898, p. 331, note.  And ibid., p. 330:  “Au lieu que les classiques s’efforcaient toujours, a travers les modifications que les pays, les temps et les circonstances peuvent apporter aux sentiments et aux passions des hommes, d’atteindre a ce que ces passions et ces sentiments conservent de permanent, d’immuable et d’eternel, c’est au contraire a l’expression de l’accidentel et du relatif que les novateurs devaient les efforts de leur art.  Plus simplement, a la place de la verite humaine, ils devaient mettre la verite locale.”  Professor Herford says that what Scott “has in common with the Romantic temper is simply the feeling for the picturesque, for colour, for contrast.”  “Age of Wordsworth,” p. 121.