introduction-dialogue

Updated: May 12, 2025

Of the very few persons whom it would not be ridiculous to name with these, Scott whose competence in criticising his own art is one of the most wonderful though the least generally recognised things about him inclines, in the interesting Introduction-Dialogue to The Fortunes of Nigel, to put it on a level with Tom Jones itself as a perfectly constructed novel.

George Saintsbury - The English Novel