e, and
said: "I scarce know anything so easily discovered as the piecing and
patching of an old ballad; the darns in a silk stocking are not more
manifest." (_Correspondence of C.K. Sharpe_, Vol. II, p. 424.)]

[Footnote 58: Scott's manuscript collections of ballads dropped
partially out of sight after his death, and it was only about 1890
that their magnitude and importance became known. Professor Child and
later editors have found them of very great service. (On Child's use
of the Abbotsford materials, see the Advertisement to Part VIII of his
collection, contained in Volume IV.) In 1880 appeared a reprint of the
_Ballad Book_ of C.K. Sharpe, "with notes and ballads from the
unpublished manuscripts of C.K. Sharpe and Sir Walter Scott," but the
contributions from Scott's papers did not amount to much. Scott's
materials were at the service of his friend for use in the original
edition of the _Ballad Book_, published in 1823. See _Sharpe's
Correspondence_, Vol. II, pp. 264, 271 and 325, for letters from Scott
on this subject.]

[Footnote 59: Note on _The Raid of the Reidswire_, in the
_Minstrelsy_.]

[Footnote 60: Henderson's edition of the _Minstrelsy_, Vol. III, p.
232.]

[Footnote 61: Henderson's edition of the _Minstrelsy_, Vol. II, p.
57.]

[Footnote 62: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 360.]

[Footnote 63: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 332.]

[Footnote 64: First edition of the _Minstrelsy_, Vol. II, pp. 156-7.]

[Footnote 65: _Edinburgh Review_, January, 1803.]

[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,