SCOTT founded the vogue of the historical novel, and Harrison Ainsworth took advantage of it. Without the immense assiduity of research that Scott brought to the business.,and equally. without overloading his novels with introductions, prefaces, and historical notes, as Scott was apt to do, he turned out a number of excellent stories that wore best-sellers in their day, and have still a certain popufarity, particularly 'The Tower of London,' of which Miss Ann Spico will talk this afternoon.
