At least five reviews of "The Antiquary", in the "Quarterly Review", the "Edinburgh Review", the "Monthly Review", the "Critical Review", and the "British Lady's Magazine", agreed in considering Ochiltree a male version of Scott's eldritch gypsy Meg Merrilies in his previous novel "Guy Mannering". The "Quarterly "'s reviewer, John Wilson Croker, thought the imitation improved on the original, while the "Monthly" thought him unforgettable and sometimes sublime, but Francis Jeffrey in the "Edinburgh" could give him only qualified approval. The "Augustan Review" could not accept the idea of a mere beggar expressing moral eloquence and poetic feeling, and it detected in this the influence of Wordsworth. William H. Prescott in the "North American Review" believed that such characters as Edie Ochiltree showed Scott to have a "worldly, good-natured shrewdness" surpassing that of Shakespeare himself. Later in the century a critic in the "London Quarterly" thought he ranked among "the most complete and remarkable characters created by Scott or any other