Scott's Work as Student and Editor in the Field of Literary History 1.

The Mediaeval Period (a) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 17 (b) Studies in the Romances 32 (c) Other Studies in Mediaeval Literature 40 2.

The Drama 46 3.

The Seventeenth Century: Dryden 59 4.

The Eighteenth Century (a) Swift 65 (b) The Somers Tracts 70 (c) The Lives of the Novelists, and Comments on other Eighteenth Century Writers 72.