Subject of Letter II. continued-The novelist is, like the
poet, a man of good society-His stories never betray for-
getfulness of honourable principles, or ignorance of good
manners-Spirited pictures of gentlemanly character-
Colonel Mannering-Judicious treatment of elevated hi-
storical personages.
The novelist quotes and praises most contemporary poets,
except the author of Marmion-Instances in which the