Excerpt from The Waverly Anecdotes, Vol. 1: Illustrative of the Incidents, Characters, and Scenery, Described in the Novels and Romances, of Sir Walter Scott, Bart It was not then enough, any more than now, for novelists to imagine new Gullivers and Grandi sons, but they must also place them in natural yet varied circumstances, to bring out their characters, and to show that their Claims to eminence did not lay only in the similarity of a name, or in mere imitations of their predecessors; but that they also had looked into life for the materials of which their fictions were comprised. The, success of a few Gothic stories, as they were denominated, brought forward a' whole host of others, written upon the same plan; and the metropolis was inundated with Lionels and De Monta gues, and Red cross knights; and Seneschals, and pil grims and warders, and a thousand other ancient fragments, all huddled together without order or arrangement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.