401.] [Footnote 233: Allan Cunningham's _Life of Scott_, p.

96.] [Footnote 234: _Lockhart_, Vol.

I, p.

483.] [Footnote 235: See the satirical paragraph in his review of _Gertrude of Wyoming_, on the habits of reviewers in general.

"We are perfectly aware," he says, "that, according to the modern canons of criticism, the Reviewer is expected to show his immense superiority to the author reviewed, and at the same time to relieve the tediousness of narration, by turning the epic, dramatic, moral story before him into quaint and lively burlesque." (_Quarterly_, May, 1809.) In his review of the _Life and Works of John Home_ he speaks of "the hackneyed rules of criticism, which, having crushed a hundred poets, will never, it may be prophesied, create, or assist in creating, a single one." (_Quarterly_, June, 1827.)] [Footnote 236: _Lockhart_, Vol.