While English printing concerned itself first with such works as _The Game and Playe of the Chesse_, _The Dictes and Sayings of Philosophers_, _The Æneid of Virgil_, _The Poems of Chaucer_, _Lydgate and Gower_, _The Golden Legend_, and the _Morte d’Arthur_, Gaelic printing took to do with religion. Knox’s Liturgy, Catechisms, Psalters, and Vocabularies were its main concern; and only after the lapse of nearly two hundred years did it give any attention to poetry or native literature of any kind. The original bards, like all other English and foreign writers, had to wait in the outer court of the Gentiles. But after Baxter’s _Call to the Unconverted_ was issued in 1750 they began to come straggling in, Mackellar with his hymns and Macdonald with his songs. And in addition to Dugald Buchanan’s and Macintyre’s we have, during the following half century, these books:— A volume of Hymns published in 1770 by Macfadyen, a Glasgow University student; and about the same time an Elegy and one or two other Gaelic poems by another Glasgow student. Ronald Macdonald, son of Alexander, published the first issue of old Gaelic poems, including some of his own and his father’s, in 1776. Then followed in 1777 an anonymous collection of Mirthful Songs, and in 1780 another of Curious ones; and a volume entitled _Loudin’s Songs_. John Brown’s, Margaret Cameron’s, and A. Campbell’s appeared in 1785; and next year the better known collections of John Gillies, bookseller, Perth, and Duncan Kennedy, schoolmaster, Kilmelford. In 1787 Dr. Smith published his alleged poems of Ossian, Orran, Ullin, etc., and those entitled _Dargo and Gaul_. And before the century closed Kenneth Mackenzie’s, Alexander Macpherson’s, Duncan Campbell’s, and Allan Macdougall’s compositions were all in type, issued separately. The subsequent years, from 1800 to 1831, were most prolific in the output of poetical publications. It seemed as if the Highland bards had made a rival rush for the printing presses, and kept the busy machines clicking. Among the names of those whose poems were then issued occur the following: Dr. Dewar, Rob. Donn, William Gordon, George Ross Gordon, Peter Grant, Angus Kennedy, A. and J. Maccallum, J. Macdonald, John Macgregor, Dr. James Macgregor, P. Macfarlane, D. Macintosh, A. Mackay, J. Maclachlan, J. Maclean, D. Macleod, D. Matheson, J. Morrison, James Munro, A. and D. Stewart, R. Stewart, P. Stuart, P. Turner. And in addition to theirs, and some other ten volumes of anonymous poetry, partly original and partly collected, there were published within that period the Highland Society’s edition of Ossian’s poems, and its reprint, the one in London, 3 volumes, 1807, the other in Edinburgh, 1818. If the Gaelic muse was at first slow in committing its productions to modern printing, it appears to have cast off all reserve after 1800, and every type of bardic effusion went to the press.