In his "Reply to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," Byron wrote: "What have we got instead [of following Pope]?
A deluge of flimsy and unintelligible romances, imitated from Scott and myself, who have both made the best of our bad materials and erroneous system."] [Footnote 291: Review of _Childe Harold_, _Canto III_, _Quarterly_, October, 1816.] [Footnote 292: _Lockhart_, Vol.

III, p.

182.] [Footnote 293: It should be remembered also that Scott's first review of _Childe Harold_ appeared at a time when all England was condemning Byron for his treatment of Lady Byron, and that the article was thought by many to be altogether too lenient.

Byron wrote to Murray expressing his pleasure in the review before he knew who was responsible for it, and some years later he wrote to Scott as follows: "To have been recorded by you in such a manner would have been a proud memorial at any time, but at such a time ...

was something still higher to my self-esteem....