Both were natives of Scotland and both illustrate different ways of the novel.

Henry Mackenzie, an Edinburgh advocate, in three books--the names of which at least are famous, while his friend Sir Walter has preserved the books themselves in the collection so often mentioned--produced, in his own youth and in rapid succession, _The Man of Feeling_ (1771), _The Man of the World_ (1773), and _Julia de Roubigne_ (1777).

John Moore, a Glasgow physician, wrote, when he was nearly sixty, the novel of _Zeluco_ (1786) and followed it up with _Edward_ ten years afterwards and _Mordaunt_ (1800).

Mackenzie did good work later in the periodical essay: but his fiction is chiefly the "sensibility"-novel of the French and of Sterne, reduced to the absolutely absurd.

From his essay-work, and from Scott's and other accounts of him, he must have possessed humour of a kind: but the extremely limited character of its nature and operation may be exemplified by his representation of a whole press-gang as bursting into tears at the pathetic action and words of an old man who offers himself as substitute for his son.