PERIODICAL CRITICISM. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. VOL. III. MISCELLANEOUS. ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH; WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON. 1835. CRITICISM ON NOVELS AND ROMANCES. (CONTINUED.) ARTICLE XIII. TALES OF MY LANDLORD.' [Tales of my Landlord. 4 Vols. 12mo. Third Edition. Edinburgh: 1817.-From the Quarterly Review for Jan. 1817.1 THESE Tales belong obviously to a class of novels which we have already had occasion repeatedly to 1 [It is to be inferred, from some expressions in Sir Walter Scott's correspondence and elsewhere, that the materials of this article were in part collected and arranged by his friend William Erskine, Lord Kinnedder; but the MS. of the Essay, now in the possession of Mr Murray, is entirely in the handwriting of Sir Walter himself. The article was prompted by the appearance of a series of essays in a religious magazine (The Christian Instructor), from the pen of the learned and venerable Dr Thomas M'Crie, author of the Life of Knox, &c., in which the Doctor bitterly impugned the views given of the Scotch Covenanters in the Waverley Novels.] 2 [Dr M Crie died at Edinburgh on the 5th of August, 1835, in his 64th year.] |