Mr.Shelley had sent it with a brief note, it, which he said that it was the work of a friend, and that he had only seen it through the press.

Sir Walter passed the hook on to Mr.Murritt, who, in reply, gave Scott a brief and not very accurate history of Shelley.

Sir Walter then wrote a most favourable review of "Frankenstein" in "Blackwood's Magazine," observing that it was attributed to Mr.Percy Bysshe Shelley, a son-in-law of Mr.Godwin.

Mrs.
Shelley presently wrote thanking him for the review, and assuring him that it was her own work.

Scott had apparently taken Sheller's disclaimer as an innocent evasion; it was an age of literary superscheries.
-- Abbotsford Manuscripts.] As a critic, of course, he was mistaken; but his was the generous error of the heart, and it is the heart in Walter Scott, even more than the brain, that lends its own vitality to his creations.