The Gaels of Scotland cannot be accused of indifference to the rich stores of legend current among the people. From the days of the Dean of Lismore, in the late 15th century, onwards, there have not been wanting lovers and recorders of the old songs and stories. Unfortunately, in the 18th century, a new direction was given to the national interest in the race traditions by the Macpherson controversy. I say unfortunately, because attention was thereby concentrated upon one section of tradition to the neglect of others equally interesting and beautiful, and false standards were introduced into the appreciation and criticism of popular oral literature. Valuable as are the materials accumulated in the Report of the Highland Society, and generally in the voluminous literature which grew up round Macpherson’s pretentions, they are far less valuable than they might be to the folk-lorist and student of the past, owing to the misapprehension of the real points both of interest and at issue. Two generations had to pass away before Scotch Gaelic folk-lore was to be studied and appreciated for itself. To Campbell of Islay and the faithful fellow-workers whom he knew how to inspire and organise, falls the chief share in this work, belongs the chief honour of its successful achievement. The publication of the _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_ was epoch-making, not only in the general study of folk-lore, but specially for the appreciation and intelligence of Gaelic myth and romance. No higher praise can be given to John Gregorson Campbell than that his folk-lore work is full of the same uncompromising fidelity to popular utterance, the same quick intuition into, and sympathetic grasp of popular imagination as Islay’s. His published work has indeed a somewhat wider range than that of _Leabhar na Feinne_ and the _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_, as it deals also with those semi-historic traditions, the nearest equivalent the literature of these islands can show to the Icelandic family sagas, which Islay excluded from the two collections he issued. The following is a complete list, so far as can be ascertained, of the published writings of John Gregorson Campbell, in so far as they relate to the legendary romance, history and folk-lore of Gaelic Scotland. IN THE “CELTIC REVIEW,” (1881–85). No. I. p. 61, West Highland Tale: How Tuairisgeal Mòr was put to death. ” II. p. 115, The Muileartach: a West Highland Tale.[1] ” III. p. 184, West Highland Tale: How Fionn went to the Kingdom of Big Men.[2] ” IV. p. 262, West Highland Tale: MacPhie’s Black Dog. IN THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE INVERNESS GAELIC SOCIETY. Vol. XIII. (1888) p. 69, Tale of Sir Hallabh O’Corn. ” XIV. (1889) p. 78, Healing of Keyn’s Foot. ” XV. (1890) p. 46, Fionn’s Ransom. ” XVI. (1891) p. 111, The Pigmies or Dwarfs (_Na h-Amhuisgean_).