[Footnote 21: "He fixed his attention on his employments without the slightest consideration for his own feelings of whatever kind, either in regard to state of health or domestic sorrows." (_Memoirs of a Literary Veteran_, by R.P. Gillies, Vol. III, p. 141.)] [Footnote 22: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 365.] [Footnote 23: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 112.] [Footnote 24: _Journal_, Vol. 1, p. 303; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 68.] [Footnote 25: _Letters to Heber_, p. 69.] [Footnote 26: Irving's _Abbotsford_.] [Footnote 27: _Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor_, Vol. I, p. 282. See also Scott's review of the _Life of Home_; and _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 304.] [Footnote 28: _Cockburn's Memorials_, p. 181.] [Footnote 29: _Ticknor_, Vol. I, p. 280.] [Footnote 30: _Letters to Heber_, p. 63; _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 496.] [Footnote 31: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 177.] [Footnote 32: Review of _Poems of William Herbert_, _Edinburgh Review_, October, 1806.] [Footnote 33: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, pp. 275-6.] [Footnote 34: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 333.] [Footnote 35: In 1830.] [Footnote 36: Ritson's principal works were as follows: _Select Collection of English Songs_ (1783); _Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry from Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies_ (1791); _Ancient Songs from the Time of Henry III. to the Revolution_ (1792); _Scottish Songs with the Genuine Music_ (1794); _Poems by Laurence Minot_ (1795); _Robin Hood Poems_ (1795); _Ancient English Metrical Romances_ (1802).] [Footnote 37: Ellis published his _Specimens of the Early English Poets_ in 1790, and it was reissued with the addition of the Introduction in 1801 and 1803. He edited also Way's translations of the Fabliaux (1796), and _Specimens of Early English Romances in Metre_ (1805).] [Footnote 38: Review of Dunlop's _History of Fiction_, July, 1815.] [Footnote 39: The _Magnum Opus_ of Robert Surtees was his _History of Durham_, published 1816-1840.] [Footnote 40: Douce published _Illustrations of Shakespeare_ in 1807. Later he edited _Arnold's Chronicle; Judicium, a Pageant_; and a metrical _Life of St. Robert_. The two latter, which appeared in 1822 and 1824, were done for the Roxburghe Club. In 1824 he also wrote some notes for Warton's _History of English Poetry_.] [Footnote 41: _Age of Wordsworth_, p. 39.] [Footnote 42: A number of volumes containing old ballads together with modern imitations had been published both before and after the appearance of Percy's _Reliques_, but Ritson's collections were the first, except Percy's, to treat the material in a scholarly way.]