[12] Appendix to the Preface to the Second Edition of "Lyrical Ballads." Taine says that Ossian "with Oscar, Malvina, and his whole troop, made the tour of Europe; and, about 1830, ended by furnishing baptismal names for French _grisettes_ and _perruquiers_."--_English Literature_, Vol. II. p. 220 (American Edition). [13] The Committee found that Gaelic poems, and fragments of poems, which they had been able to obtain, contained often the substance, and sometimes the "literal expression (the _ipsissima verba_)" of passages given by MacPherson. "But," continues the "Report," "the Committee has not been able to obtain any one poem the same in title and tenor with the poems published by him. It is inclined to believe that he was in use to supply chasms and to give connection, by inserting passages which he did not find; and to add what he conceived to be dignity and delicacy to the original composition, by striking out passages, by softening incidents, by refining the language: in short, by changing what he considered as too simple or too rude for a modern ear." [14] "Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems." See _ante_, p. 313. [15] Clerk. [16] "The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic, with a Literal Translation into Latin by the late Robert Macfarland, etc., Published under the Sanction of the Highland Society of London," 3 vols., London, 1807. The work included dissertations on the authenticity of the poems by Sir Jno. Sinclair, and the Abbe Cesarotti (translated). Four hundred and twenty-three lines of Gaelic, being the alleged original of the seventh book of "Temora," had been published with that epic in 1763. [17] "Popular Tales of the West Highlands," J. F. Campbell, Edinburgh, 1862. Vol. IV. P. 156. [18] He suggests Lachlan MacPherson of Strathmashie, one of MacPherson's helpers. "Popular Tales of the West Highlands." [19] "Fragments," etc. [20] Seventh book of "Temora." See _ante_, p. 321. [21] "Leabhar Na Feinne," p. xii. [22] See _ante_, p. 313, note. [23] "Encyclopaedia Britannica": "Celtic Literature." [24] For a further account of the state of the "authenticity" question, see Archibald McNeil's "Notes on the Authenticity of Ossian's Poems," 1868; and an article on "Ossian" in _Macmillan's Magazine_, XXIV. 113-25. [25] "The sweet voice of Cona never sounds so sweetly as when it speaks of itself." [26] "The Complaint of Ninathoma." [27] For some MS. Notes of Byron in a copy of "Ossian," see Phelps' "English Romantic Movement," pp. 153-54. [28] "Sorrows of Werther," Letter lxviii. [29] "Caledonia, or Ancient Scotland," book ii. chapter vii. part iv. [30] "Childe Harold," canto iii. [31] The same is true of Burns, though references to Cuthullin's dog Luath, in "The Twa Dogs"; to "Caric-thura" in "The Whistle"; and to "Cath-Loda" in the notes on "The Vision," show that Burns knew his Ossian. [32] From Goethe's "Goetz von Berlichingen."