SIR WALTER SCOTT, who founded one of his best novels [Quentin Durward] upon the MEMOIRS OF PHILIP DE COMMINES, calls him “one of the most profound statesmen, and certainly the best historian of his age;” and quoting Ronsard, the poet, adds, “that he was the first to show the lustre which valour and noble blood derived from being united with learning.”—_See a Note to Quentin Durward._ “Above all men,” says Dryden, “in this kind of writing, may be accounted the plain, sincere, unaffected, and most instructive PHILIP DE COMMINES. I am sorry I cannot find in our own nation (though it has produced some commendable historians) any worthy to be ranked with him.”…
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