I, p.

194.] [Footnote 6: See particularly _Paul's Letters; Provincial Antiquities_; and the Histories of the years 1814 and 1815, each a respectable volume, written for the _Edinburgh Annual Register_.] [Footnote 7: Ruskin's remark that "The excellence of Scott's work is precisely in proportion to the degree in which it is sketched from present nature," should not necessarily lead on to the condemnation which follows: "He does not see how anything is to be got out of the past but confusion, old iron on drawing-room chairs, and serious inconvenience to Dr.Heavysterne." (_Modern Painters_, Part IV, ch.
16, Sec.

32.)] [Footnote 8: _Letters to Richard Heber_, etc.

(by J.L.

Adolphus), pp.
136-137.] [Footnote 9: Mr.Herford distinguishes two lines of romantic sentiment--"the one pursuing the image of the past as a refuge from reality, the other as a portion of it: the mediaevalism of Tieck and the mediaevalism of Scott." _The Age of Wordsworth_, Introduction, p.
xxiv, note.] [Footnote 10: _Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart_, p.