Burns’s version, in Johnson’s _Museum_ (1792). Scott’s version is made up of this copy, Riddell’s, Herd’s, and oral recitations, and contains feeble literary interpolations, not, of course, by Sir Walter. _The Complaint of Scotland_ (1549) mentions the “Tale of the Young Tamlene” as then popular. It is needless here to enter into the subject of Fairyland, and captures of mortals by Fairies: the Editor has said his say in his edition of Kirk’s _Secret Commonwealth_. The Nereids, in Modern Greece, practise fairy cantrips, and the same beliefs exist in Samoa and New Caledonia. The metamorphoses are found in the _Odyssey_, Book iv., in the winning of Thetis, the _Nereid_, _or Fairy Bride_, by Peleus, in a modern Cretan fairy tale, and so on. There is a similar incident in _Penda Baloa_, a Senegambian ballad (_Contes Populaires de la Sénégambie_, Berenger Ferand, Paris, 1885). The dipping of Tamlane has precedents in _Old Deccan Days_, in a Hottentot tale by Bleek, and in _Les Deux Frères_, the Egyptian story, translated by Maspero (the Editor has already given these parallels in a note to _Border Ballads_, by Graham R. Thomson). Mr. Child also cites Mannhardt, “Wald und Feldkulte,” ii. 64–70. Carterhaugh, the scene of the ballad, is at the junction of Ettrick and Yarrow, between Bowhill and Philiphaugh. THOMAS RYMER.—p. 16 From _The Border Minstrelsy_; the original was derived from a lady living near Erceldoune (Earlston), and from Mrs. Brown’s MSS. That Thomas of Erceldoune had some popular fame as a rhymer and soothsayer as early as 1320–1350, seems to be established. As late as the Forty Five, nay, even as late as the expected Napoleonic invasion, sayings attributed to Thomas were repeated with some measure of belief. A real Thomas Rymer of Erceldoune witnessed an undated deed of Peter de Haga, early in the thirteenth century. The de Hagas, or Haigs of Bemersyde, were the subjects of the prophecy attributed to Thomas, “Betide, betide, whate’er betide, There will aye be a Haig in Bemersyde,”