251/377 January, 1895; and also Aitken's edition of Defoe's _Romances and Narratives_, Vol. XV, Introduction.) A passage from Defoe's _History of the Church of Scotland_ is quoted in the review of _Tales of My Landlord_, by Scott, who says that it probably suggested one of the scenes in _Old Mortality_. Scott there speaks of Defoe's "liveliness of imagination," and says he "excelled all others in dramatizing a story, and presenting it as if in actual speech and action before the reader." (_Quarterly Review_, January, 1817.)] [Footnote 215: See also _The Fortunes of Nigel_, Vol. 88-9.] [Footnote 216: _Life of Clara Reeve_.] [Footnote 217: Blackwood, March, 1818.] [Footnote 218: _Quarterly_, May, 1818.] [Footnote 219: See a reference to Voltaire and other French authors; _Napoleon_, Vol. |