Among novelists we have Jane Austen, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Porter, and Susan Ferrier,all women, be it noted; among the poets, Campbell, Moore, Hogg ("the Ettrick Shepherd"), Mrs. Hemans, Heber, Keble, Hood, and "Ingoldsby" (Richard Barham); and among miscellaneous writers, Sidney Smith, "Christopher North" (John Wilson), Chalmers, Lockhart, Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, Hallam, and Landor.

Life: by Lockhart, 5 vols.

The bulky volumes of Lockhart's Biography constitute a mine of information about Scott, but are now heavy reading, without much vivacity,affording a strong contrast to Boswell's Life of Johnson, which concealed nothing that we would like to know.

Lockhart's knowledge of his subject and his literary skill have given us much; and, with Scott's own letters and the critical notice of his contemporaries, both the man and his works may be fairly estimated.

Lockhart quotes a passage of Scott's own self-criticism: "I am sensible that if there be anything good about my poetry, or prose either, it is a hurried frankness of composition, which pleases soldiers, sailors, and young people of bold and active dispositions."

Lockhart thought that it was on the whole the greatest of Scott's poems, in strength and boldness.

Lockhart regarded "Old Mortality" as the "Marmion" of Scott's novels; but the painting of the Covenanters gave offence to the more rigid of the Presbyterians.

"He disliked," says Lockhart, "mere disquisitions in Edinburgh and prepared impromptus in London."

Lockhart writes: "It would hardly, I believe, be too much to affirm that Sir Walter Scott entertained under his roof, in the course of the seven or eight brilliant seasons when his prosperity was at its height, as many persons of distinction in rank, in politics, in art, in literature, and in science, as the most princely nobleman of his age ever did in the like space of time.

Perhaps his most confidential letters were, like Byron's, written to his publishers and printers, though many such were addressed to his son-in-law Lockhart, and to his dearest friend William Erskine.

Lockhart says: "He paid the penalty of health and life, but he saved his honor and his self-respect.

Carlyle took it to Lockhart of the Quarterly, but Lockhart was afraid to publish it.

Carlyle took it to Lockhart of the Quarterly, but Lockhart was afraid to publish it.

Lockhart said of it that he could accept none of his friend's inferences except one,"that we were all wrong, and were all like to be damned.

For this purpose Lockhart, one of the Scottish judges, who [Footnote 1: Vaughan, ii. 176.

We have despatches from Lockhart dated on the day of the pretended signature, and other despatches for a year afterward; yet none of them make the remotest allusion to this treaty; several contain particulars inconsistent with it.]

Feb. 15.] in disguise through France to Geneva, that he might escape the notice of Lockhart and Mazarin, returned along the Rhine to join his master in Flanders.

They were led by Major-General Morgan; for Lockhart, who acted both as ambassador and commander-in-chief, was confined by indisposition to his carriage.

The advantage, however, was dearly purchased: in Lockhart's regiment scarcely an officer remained to take the command.

The "Maryland Republican" of January 30, 1838, has the following: "A street rencounter lately took place in Jackson, Miss., between Mr. Robert McDonald and Mr. W.H. Lockhart, in which McDonald was shot with a pistol and immediately expired.

Lockhart was committed to prison.

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He once remonstrated with Lockhart for being too apt to measure things by some reference to literature.