53, note.] [Footnote 212: See also the Introductory epistle to _Ivanhoe_; and the Review of _Walpole's Letters_.

"In attaining his contemporary triumph," says Mr.Brander Matthews, "Scott owed more to Horace Walpole than to Maria Edgeworth." _The Historical Novel_, p.

10.] [Footnote 213: Scott uses the word.] [Footnote 214: Mr.G.A.Aitken has given convincing evidence that the story was not invented by Defoe.

Mr.Aitken also shows the falsity of Scott's statement that Drelincourt's book was in need of advertising, as William Lee, in his _Life of Defoe_, had previously done.

(See _The Nineteenth Century_, xxxvii: 95.