[Footnote 66: The _Minstrelsy_ is arranged in three parts: I.,
Historical Ballads; II., Romantic Ballads; III., Imitations of the
Ballad. The first part is preceded by the Introductory Remarks on
Popular Poetry, and by the historical introduction. The second part is
preceded by the essay on The Fairies of Popular Superstition; and the
third by the essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad. The poems by
Scott given in this third part are as follows: _Thomas the Rhymer_
(parts 2 and 3), _Glenfinlas_, _The Eve of St. John_, _Cadyow Castle_,
_The Gray Brother_, _War Song of the Royal Edinburgh Light Dragoons_.
Besides these there are three poems by John Leyden (and he has also an
_Ode on Scottish Music_ preceding the Romantic ballads), two by C.K.
Sharpe, three by John Marriott, who was tutor to the children of the
Duke of Buccleuch, and one each by Matthew Lewis, Anna Seward, Dr.
Jamieson, Colin Mackenzie, J.B.S. Morritt, and an unnamed author. In
the other parts of the book there are a few imitations, notably the
three by Surtees--_Lord Ewine_, the _Death of Featherstonhaugh_, and
_Barthram's Dirge_, which Scott supposed were old; and one or two like
the _Flowers of the Forest_, which he noted as largely modern, or
which he had found, after arranging his material, to be wholly modern.
Nearly forty old ballads were published in the _Minstrelsy_ for the
first time.]
[Footnote 67: _Remarks on Popular Poetry_, conclusion.]
[Footnote 68: Review of the Poems of William Herbert. _Edinburgh
Review_, October, 1806.]
[Footnote 69: Stanzas 10-12, and 31, are noted by Child as
particularly suspicious. "Basnet," which occurs in stanza 10, is not a
very common word in ballads. It is used in _The Lay_, Canto I., stanza
25, and in _Marmion_, Canto VI, st. 21.]
[Footnote 70: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 221.]
[Footnote 71: _Memoir of William Taylor_, Vol. I, pp. 98-99, and see
_Sharpe's Correspondence_, Vol. I, pp. 146-7, for a letter to Sharpe
on a similar point.]
[Footnote 72: _Minstrelsy_, Introduction to _Lord Thomas and Fair
Annie_.]
[Footnote 73: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 101.]
[Footnote 74: _Ibid._, Vol. I, pp. 35-6.]
[Footnote 75: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 244. See also _Lockhart_,
Vol. V, p. 408.]
[Footnote 76: Sometime before 1821 (probably a good while before, but
the date cannot be fixed), Scott began a translation of _Don Quixote_,
and afterwards gave the work over to Lockhart, who completed it. See
_Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, p. 161.]
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