I, pp.

402-3.] [Footnote 171: _Dryden_, Vol.

I, p.

403.] [Footnote 172: _Ibid._, p.404.

Mr.Saintsbury thinks that Scott's prefatory introductions to the plays are often "both meagre and depreciatory"; also that Scott's judgment on Dryden's letters is rather harsh, for him, and that after he had begun to write novels he would not have been so impatient of remarks on "turkeys, marrow-puddings, and bacon."] [Footnote 173: _Ibid._, Vol.