 It could scarcely have been expected from one so competent to the task as Dr. M'Crie, that it would have been otherwise than a complete historical refutation of the misstatements of the novel, and a successful vindication of the vilified Covenanters.But it was also something more than this in the eyes of Scott and his admirers; for it attacked him with a strength of wit and power of sarcasm that threatened to turn the laugh against himself, and foil him at his own chosen weapon.So at least he felt, and his complaints upon the subject, as well as his attempted defence in the "Quarterly Review", bespoke a mind ill at ease about the issue of such a controversy.