ly received.

[Footnote 96: Scott's article on Kirkton's _History of
the Church of Scotland_, edited by Mr. C. K. Sharpe,
appeared in the 36th number of the _Quarterly
Review_,--See _Miscellaneous Prose Works_, vol. xix. p.
213.]

[Footnote 97: Scott expressed great satisfaction on
seeing the _Lives of the Covenanters_--Cameron, Peden,
Semple, Wellwood, Cargill, Smith, Renwick,
etc.--reprinted without mutilation in the _Biographia
Presbyteriana_. Edin. 1827. The publisher of this
collection was the late Mr. John Stevenson, long chief
clerk to John Ballantyne, and usually styled by Scott
"True Jock," in opposition to one of his old master's
many _aliases_--namely, "Leein' Johnnie."]

[Footnote 98: See Scott's _Prose Miscellanies_, vol.
xviii. p. 250.]

[Footnote 99: The Letters of Horace Walpole to George
Montagu.]

I could have sworn that Beppo was founded on Whistlecraft,
as both were on Anthony Hall,[100] who, like Beppo, had more
wit than grace.

[Footnote 100: _Anthony Hall_ is only known as Editor of
one of Leland's works. I have no doubt Scott was
thinking of _John Hall Stevenson_, author of _Crazy
Tales_; the friend, and (it is said) the _Eugenius_ of
Sterne.]

{p.230} I am not, however, in spirits at present for
treating either these worthies, or my friend Rose,[101]
though few have warmer wishes to any of the trio. But this
confounded changeable weather has twice within this
fortnight brought back my cramp in the stomach. Adieu. My
next shall be with a packet.--Yours truly,

W. SCOTT.

[Footnote 101: I believe Mr. Rose's _Court and
Parliament of Beasts_ is here alluded to.]

In the next letter we have Scott's lamentation over the death of Mrs.
Murray Keith--the Mrs. Bethune Baliol of his Chronicles of the
Canongate. The person alluded to under the designation of "Prince of
the Black Marble Islands" was Mr. George Bullock, already often
mentioned as, with Terry and Mr. Atkinson, consulted about all the
arrangements of the rising house at Abbotsford. Scott gave him this
t