Excerpt from Little Jehan De Saintre and of the Lady of the Fair Cousins: Without Being Any Otherwise Named

If I Spoke, a moment ago, of Saintre' bemg the Waver ley, and even more than the Waverley of a comparatively unlettered age, I must be understood to have been insti tuting a comparison simply between the originality, not the literary pretensions of the two works. That Scott was greatly struck with Saintre' more so, perhaps, than he was altogether aware of at the time, is evident. I think it will be very hard for any observant reader of our work, to resist the conclusion, that it was to it that he was indebted for the first hint of the general outline of the plan of the Waverley novel.

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