ADVERTISEMENT. JULY 1833. [IT is to be regretted that Sir Walter Scott has left no answer to an elaborate dissertation on his preface to Sir Tristrem, which was appended to the first volume of the 8vo edition of Warton's History of English Poetry, published in 1824. It is probable that this very valuable book, being put forth without the name of the Editor, or any distinct announcement of what his researches had added to the original narrative of Warton, had never attracted Sir Walter's notice. There is no copy of it in the Library at Abbotsford. The writer in question (Mr. Price), expresses his opinion, 1st, That the peculiarities of style and language in the Sir Tristrem of the Auchinleck MS., are of such a character as to render it |