CONTENTS:--The Scottish Vernacular--Minstrelsy and Romance--Historical Poetry--The Scottish Fabliau and the Decay of Romance--The Early Chaucerians--Dunbar and Walter Kennedy--Gavin Douglas and Sir David Lyndsay--Minor and Later Poets of the 16th Century--Anonymous Poetry of the 15th and 16th Centuries--Vernacular Prose--Traditional Ballads and Songs--Before Ramsay--Ramsay to Burns--Burns and afterwards. =_Some Press Notices_= =Outlook.=--"Truly admirable for its conciseness and adequacy of critical treatment." =Literature.=--"A work of great merit and interest, and unique in its field." =Scotsman.=--"Will be of great use to those who wish a general guide to Scottish literature in prose, such as there was, as well as in verse." =North British Daily Mail.=--"A model of what such a handbook should be--thorough, concise, well balanced." =Saturday Review.=--"Excellent in every respect." =Morning Post.=--"It is not easy to recall another volume, conceived on this apparently unambitious scale, which is at once so scholarly, so thorough, so agreeable." =Glasgow Herald.=--"Deserves a hearty welcome and no stinted=praise." =Arbroath Herald.=--"Few readers will fail to appreciate the justice and the suggestive force of his general survey of Scottish literature." Transcribers Note Headings printed at the top of pages in the original have been converted to sub-headings and placed and the head of the most relevant paragraph. Much of the text being letters and transcripts, inconsistant spellings have been retained. Footnote 64 had no anchor in the text. Since it appears to relate to the whole of letter III an anchor has been inserted at to top of the letter. Ligature oe has been represented as [oe]. End of Project Gutenberg's Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587, by Various