fresh tale from his bard. The _Book of Leinster_,
an Irish vellum of the twelfth century, contains a list of 189 of these
hero-tales, many of which are extant to this day; E. O'Curry gives the
list in the Appendix to his MS. _Materials of Irish History_. Another
list of about 70 is given in the preface to the third volume of the
Ossianic Society's publications. Dr. Joyce published a few of the more
celebrated of these in _Old Celtic Romances_; others appeared in
_Atlantis_ (see notes on "Deirdre"), others in Kennedy's _Bardic
Stories_, mentioned above.

Turning to SCOTLAND, we must put aside Chambers' _Popular Rhymes of
Scotland_, 1842, which contains for the most part folk-tales common
with those of England rather than those peculiar to the Gaelic-speaking
Scots. The first name here in time as in importance is that of J. F.
Campbell, of Islay. His four volumes, _Popular Tales of the West
Highlands_ (Edinburgh, 1860-2, recently republished by the Islay
Association), contain some 120 folk- and hero-tales, told with strict
adherence to the language of the narrators, which is given with a
literal, a rather too literal, English version. This careful accuracy
has given an un-English air to his versions, and has prevented them
attaining their due popularity. What Campbell has published represents
only a tithe of what he collected. At the end of the fourth volume he
gives a list of 791 tales, &c., collected by him or his assistants in
the two years 1859-61; and in his MS. collections at Edinburgh are two
other lists containing 400 more tales. Only a portion of these are in
the Advocates' Library; the rest, if extant, must be in private hands,
though they are distinctly of national importance and interest.

Campbell's influence has been effective of recent years in Scotland.
The _Celtic Magazine_ (vols. xii. and xiii.), while under the
editorship of Mr. MacBain, contained several folk- and hero-tales in
Gaelic, and so did the _Scotch Celtic Review_. These were from the
collections of Messrs. Campbell of Tiree, Carmichael, and K. Mackenzie.
Recently Lord Archibald Campbell has shown laudable interest in the
preservation of Gaelic folk- and hero-tales. Under his auspices a whole
series of handsome volumes, under the general title of _Waifs and
Strays of Celtic Tradition_, has been recently published, four volumes
having already appeared, each accompanied by notes by Mr. Alfred Nutt,
which form the most important aid to the stud