CHRONICLE OF THE CID VERSION BY SOUTHEY, ROBERT. (1809) Pr. xviii. 44

See Southey.

CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. (1827-28) Nov. xli., 121, 238, 301; xlii., xliii., and xlviii., 147-430.

The first series included Mr. Chrystal Croftangry's biographical account of himself, the reputed but imaginary author of these Chronicles, which comprised "The Highland Widow," "The Two Drovers," and "The Surgeon's "Daughter." The second series consisted of "The Fair Maid of Perth."

The introduction to these Chronicles is exceedingly interesting as giving Sir W. Scott's own account of the occasion on which he discarded the incognito he had maintained as to his being the author of "Waverley." This account was written soon after his financial ruin. He was a secret partner with Messrs. Ballantyne & Co., the publishers, and on their failure stood in debt to the enormous sum of from £120,000 to £140,000—say $650,000. To pay his debts and retrieve his position he threw off the then almost open secret, and at fifty-five years of age proposed to himself the task of discharging every penny of his debts by writing and publishing even more vigorously than before, were that possible.

He sold "Woodstock" for £8228, "The Life of Napoleon" for £18,000, and before he died had reduced his debts to £54,000. These were discharged by insurances, £22,000; cash in hand, £2000; and £30,000 advanced on the security of his copyrights, and reimbursed to the lender within a few years of the author's death. No similar story (except perhaps that of General Grant's Memoirs") can be narrated.

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In Howitt's "Homes and Haunts” (vol. ii.) it is calculated that Scott's writings produced to the author or to his trustees $2,222,000. If this is the payment to them, what must have been the amount of money expended for copies of his books by the public?

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. L. x. 269-276

CHRYSTAL CROFTANGRY: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE IMAGINARY CHRONICLER OF THE THREE TALES ENTITLED "THE HIGH"LAND WIDOW," "THE TWO DROVERS," AND "THE SUR"GEON'S DAUGHTER." . Nov. xli., 1-120; and 238-242 For the tales, see each under its proper heading.

The sketch of Chrystal Croftangry's own history forms the introductory story of the first series of the "Chronicles of the Canongate." Mr. Croftangry is the imaginary editor, and the lady, termed in the narrative Mrs. Bethune Baliol, was " Mrs. Murray Keith, a dear friend of the author's."

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, HISTORY OF. BY KIRKTON, REV. JAMES. Pr. xix. 213

(1818)

.

See Kirkton.

COOKERY, RECEIPTS IN MODERN. BY IGNOTUS, AND REVISED BY DR. A. HUNTER. (1805).

Pr. xix.

107

This article appeared in the Edinburgh for July, 1805. Sir W. Scott deems that Ignotus and his Doctor friend may have done well to point out the dangers of various temptingly-described and richlyseasoned dishes; but to describe them and then stigmatize them as " unwhole"some is only calling for the water-engine after you have set the house on "fire."

COOKERY, THE NEW PRACTICE OF. BY HUDSON, MRS., AND DONAT,
MRS. (1805)
Pr. xix.

100

This article appeared in the Edinburgh for July, 1805. The writers were "the present and late housekeepers and cooks" to a Mrs. Hepburn. As the owner or proprietor of these two housekeepers and cooks, she was so amused by the review, that her husband, Sir George Hepburn, a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland, gave a great dinner to Mr. Jeffrey and the literati of Edinburgh; but, unfortunately, Scott, who had thus "founded" the feast, could not be present to test the culinary powers of these ladies. The errata in the cookery-book quoted by Scott (see p. 106) include some amusing items,— e.g.,“ for linen read lemon;" "for chicken read onion;” “for half a read three-thirds!"

COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. 2 vols. (1831) Nov. xlvi. and xlvii.

I-241.

This novel and its follower, "Castle Dangerous," form the fourth series of "Tales of My Landlord." Soon after the third series, consisting of the "Bride of Lammermoor" and "The Legend of Montrose," had been published, in 1819, some bookseller advertised a fourth series containing "Ponte"fract Castle, etc.," and when John Ballantyne advertised in an Edinburgh paper that "Pontefract" was not written by the author of the tales in the first three series, the bookseller impeached Constable's authority, “asserting "that nothing but the personal appearance in the field of the gentleman for "whom Ballantyne pretended to act could shake his belief that he was in the "confidence of the true Simon Pure." The publishers wanted Scott to disclose himself, but he refused, saying, “Let them publish: that will serve our "purpose better than anything we ourselves can do ;" and so it proved, for "Pontefract Castle, etc.," fell stillborn from the press.

The story of "Count Robert of Paris" relates to the period when the Crusaders, under Godfrey of Bouillon, were before Constantinople, during the

reign of Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of Greece, about 1090, in the time of William Rufus. It introduces Alexius Comnenus, Anna Comnena, his daughter and the celebrated writer of the " Alexiad," Godfrey of Bouillon, Hereward, the Empress Irene, Nicanor, Achilles Tatius, and Count Robert of Paris, the French crusader of the blood of Charlemagne.

The novel was almost entirely dictated to an amanuensis, as Scott was suffering from a stroke of paralysis.

CRIMINAL TRIALS IN SCOTLAND FROM 1484 TO 1684. BY PITCAIRN,
ROBERT. (1831)
Pr. xxi. 199

See Pitcairn.

CRITICISM, MISCELLANEOUS. Pr. xix., 87-367; Pr. xx. ; and Pr.

xxi., 1-265.

CRITICISM ON NOVELS AND ROMANCES Pr. xviii.; and Pr. xix.,

1-86.

CRITICISM, PERIODICAL

CRITICISM, POETICAL

Pr. xvii., xviii., xix., xx., and xxi.

Pr. xvii.

Pr. xvii.

CROKER, RIGHT HON. JOHN WILSON (1780-1857): BATTLES OF TALAVERA, THE. (1809) . 291 This is a review of a poem by the well-known editor of "Boswell's "Johnson." It appeared in the Quarterly Review for November, 1809, and enforces Scott's dangerous theory that, to a large extent, the minor arts of composition and versification, such as hasty expressions and deficient "rhymes, may be disregarded, as Falstaff did the thews and sinews and out"ward composition of his recruits, provided the heart," which makes the poet as well as the soldier, is right. This is generally regarded as “flat "heresy" and an excuse for carelessness.

CROKER, RIGHT HON. JOHN WILSON: SUFFOLK, HENRIETTA, COUNTESS OF (1681-1767), CORRESPONDENCE OF. (1824) Pr. xix. 185.

This review appeared in the Quarterly for January, 1824. The correspondence covered the period 1712-1767. It included a wide list of celebrated persons. The Countess of Suffolk, better known as Mrs. Howard, was the wife of Mr. Howard (the third son of the fifth Earl of Suffolk), was also the supposed mistress of George II., and afterwards became the wife of the Hon. George Berkeley, youngest son of the second Earl of Berkeley. The letters deal mainly with private affairs, and contradict many of Walpole's ungenerous insinuations and allegations against Mrs. Howard.

CROMEK, ROBERT HARTLEY (1770-1812): RELIQUES OF BURNS, ROBERT. (1809)

Pr. xvii.

242

This review appeared in the Quarterly for January, 1816. The rising of 1745, it must be remembered, had not become, in 1816, a matter of long bygone history, and the inner story was still a novel matter. The account of clanship and its power furnished a subject on which Scott could write with good will and interestingly. The review contains many bright anecdotes of the Scotch, as (p. 11) where a pigmy Highland chief, warned by a clergyman that it was necessary to forgive an inveterate enemy, and who further supported his argument by the scriptural expression, “ Vengeance is Mine, saith "the Lord," received for an answer, accompanied by a deep sigh, "To be "sure, it is too sweet a morsel for a mortal;" and, added the acquiescing penitent, "Well, I forgive him; but the deil take you, Donald” (turning to his son), "if you forgive him."

CUMBERLAND, RICHARD (1732-1811): JOHN DE LANCASTER:

NOVEL. (1809)

This appeared in the Quarterly Review for 1809. when Cumberland was seventy-six years of age.

CUMBERLAND, RICHARD, MEMOIR OF.

(1821-5).

A

Pr. xxviii. 138

The novel was written

Pr. iii.

191 This is one of the "Prefaces" in Ballantyne's "Novelist's Library." This dramatic author and essayist was the grandson of "Bentley, the renowned "critic," who was styled by Goldsmith "The Terence of England, the "Mender of Hearts." He was a very voluminous writer, the following works amongst others being attributed to his pen: two epics, thirty-eight dramatic pieces, three controversial publications, three novels, nine miscellaneous and prose works, besides twenty-three fugitive pieces. His first novel, "Arundel," was written at Brighton in a few weeks, and sent to the press in parcels as he wrote it. Goldsmith, in his epitaph on Cumberland, describes him as,

"A flattering painter, who made it his care

"To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
"His gallants are all faultless, his women divine,
"And Comedy wonders at being so fine;

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*

*

*

"Say, where has one poet this malady caught,
"Or, wherefore his characters thus without fault?"

CURRENCY, THE LETTERS FROM MALAGROWTHER, MALACHI. (1826)

See Malagrowther.

Pr. xxi. 267-402

CURSE OF KEHAMA. BY SOUTHEY, ROBERT. (1811)

Pr. xvii. 301

See Southey.

DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY (1778-1829): SALMONIA; OR, DAYS OF FLYFISHING. (1828)

See Salmonia.

Pr. xx. 245

This was the last of three sketches published in "The Keepsake" for 1828. The period of the story is laid in the year 1600, in the reign of Elizabeth. It is in the form of a letter to the editor of "The Keepsake" by "The "Author of Waverley."

De Foe, Daniel (1661-1731), MEMOIR OF. (1821-5) Pr. iv. 228 This sketch was written by John Ballantyne, the Edinburgh bookseller, to which Sir W. Scott added some critical notices comprising an excellent account (pp. 266-274) of Defoe's scheme to effect a sale of Drelincourt's book on "The Fear of Death," by the invention and addition of "Mrs. "Veal's Apparition.”

Two appendixes are added,-viz., "Some Account of Alexander Selkirk" (pp. 282-287), and the "Apparition of Mrs. Veal" (pp. 288-296).

De Foe's political works occasioned him "much suffering and pecuniary "loss," which he summed up in this couplet:

"No man has tasted differing fortunes more,

"And thirteen times I have been rich and poor."

DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT, LETTERS ON. (1830.)

These originally formed part of Murray's "Family Library," where copies can be found. They are included in some editions (the one hundred volumes edition, for instance) of Scott's writings to complete the collection of his prose works, but are omitted in this ninety-eight volumes edition.

DIARY OF A VOYAGE IN THE LIGHTHOUSE YACHT TO NOVA ZEMBLA AND THE LORD KNOWS WHERE. (1814) L. iv. 182-370

This is a diary" contained in five little paper books," written in the summer of 1814, describing a six weeks' pleasure voyage, wherein, "according to the "scene and occasion," we have before us" the poet, the antiquary, the magis"trate, the planter, and the agriculturist, but everywhere the warm yet saga"cious philanthropist." It is a delightful piece of autobiography.