possible that different poems existed bearing the same name; and Dr Smith’s poems are compositions of decided excellence. They add much to the stores of the Gaelic scholar, and the English translation is done with a skill little inferior to that of Macpherson himself. OTHER COLLECTIONS OF OSSIANIC POEMS. The earliest collector and publisher of the poems of Ossian was Mr Jerome Stone at Dunkeld, who furnished the _Scots Magazine_ in 1756 with a translation in rhyme of “Bàs Fhraoich,” or the Death of Fraoch. Stone did not give the Gaelic original of this or of any other of his collections, but they were found after his death, and a selection of them is printed in the Report of the Highland Society on Ossian. A Mr Hill, an English gentleman, made some collections in Argyleshire in 1780; and several pieces were published by a bookseller of the name of Gillies at Perth, who published an excellent volume of Gaelic poetry in 1786. Gillies’s pieces have the true ring of the ancient poetry of the Highlands, and are in many cases to be found floating still among the traditional poetry of the people. The Ossianic pieces are numerous. They are--“Suiridh Oisein air Eamhair àluinn,” _the Courtship of Ossian and Eviralin_; “Comhrag Fhinn agus Mhanuis,” _the Conflict of Fingal and Manus_; “Marbhadh Chonlaoich le Cuchulain,” _the Slaughter of Conlach by Cuchullin_; “Aisling Mhailmhìne,” _Malvina’s Dream_; “Briathran Fhinn ri Oscar,” _Fingal’s Address to Oscar_; “Rosg Ghuill,” _the War-song of Gaul_; “Dàn na h-Inghin,” _the Song of the Maiden_, usually called “Fainesoluis;” “Conn mac an Deirg,” _Conn, son of Dargo_; “Duan Fhraoich,” _the Song of Fraoch_; “Cath righ Sorcha,” _the Battle of the King of Sorcha_; “Marbh-rann Oscair,” _the Death-song of Oscar_; “Ceardach Mhic Luinn,” _the Smithy of the Son of Linn_; “Duan a Mhuireartaich,” _the Song of Muireartach_; “Caoidh Dhéirdir,” _Deirdre’s Lament_, in which the poem given already from the old MS. of 1268 appears as a part of it. It is most interesting in this case to compare the written with the traditional poem; “Bàs Dhiarmaid,” _the Death of Diarmad_; “Dearg mac Deirg,” _the Song of Dargo_; “Teanntachd mòr na Feinn,” _the great trial of the Fingalians_; “Laoidh Laomuinn mhic an Uaimh-fhir,” _the Song of Laomuinn_; “Eairagan,” _Earragon_; “Na Brataichean,” _the Banners_; “Bàs Oscair,” _the Death of Oscar_; in all twenty-one fragments or whole pieces, some of them of considerable length, and almost all, if not all, taken down from oral recitation. This list is given in full, in order to show what pieces of professed Ossianic poetry could be found in the Highlands soon after the publication of Macpherson’s work by other and independent compilers. A comparison of those pieces with Macpherson’s Ossian is interesting to the inquirer in this field. The following specimen of one of Gillies’s alleged compositions of Ossian may be given here:-- BRIATHRAN FHINN RI OSCAR.