Excerpt from Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama Though Sir walter Scorr's chief fame depends on his immortal Novels, his Essays deservedly hold a high place in our national Literature. Of those here presented to the Reader, Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama, appeared first in the Encyclopedia Britannica that on Amadis de Gaul in an early number of the Edz'nburg/z Review the Foray Quarterly was indebted to him for the others; one of which, that on Masaniello, is reprinted here, we believe, for the first time. 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.