For me _c'est egal_: I have nothing to do with the emoluments, and I can with very little difficulty discharge my part of the matter, which is the Prolegomena, and Life and Times." (Lang's _Lockhart_, I, 409.) In 1827 the question of carrying on the work was still undecided, and it was also mentioned in a letter in 1830.

(Lang's _Lockhart_ II, 13 and 59).

The project was ultimately abandoned, and the fate of that part of the work which was actually in print is unknown.

In the Barton Collection in the Boston Public Library is preserved what is perhaps a unique copy of three volumes of the set of ten that Scott and Lockhart undertook to prepare.

But as the books are bound up without title-pages, and as the commentary contains nothing that would determine its authorship, the attribution is probable rather than certain.