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or harm is shown in the effects wrought by * Don Quixote' and those
wrought by4 Ivanhoe.* The first swept the world's admiration for the
mediaeval chivalry-silliness out of existence; and the other restored
it. As far as our South is concerned,, the good work done by
Cervantes is pretty nearly a dead letter, so effectually has Scott's per-
nicious work undermined it.