300/377 260.] [Footnote 318: _Journal_, Vol. I, p.22.Scott wrote as follows to Lockhart after the appearance of _Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries_: "Hunt has behaved like a hyena to Byron, whom he has dug up to girn and howl over him in the same breath." Mr.Lang makes this comment: "Leigh Hunt ... had gone out of his way to insult Sir Walter and to make the most baseless insinuations against him. Scott probably never mentioned Leigh Hunt's name publicly in his life, and he refers to the insults neither in his correspondence nor in his _Journal_." (Lang's _Life of Lockhart_, Vol. |