ROBERT JAMIESON, 297
My wife 's a winsome wee thing, 299
Go to him, then, if thou can'st go, 300

WALTER WATSON, 302
My Jockie 's far awa, 304
Maggie an' me, 305
Sit down, my cronie, 306
Braes o' Bedlay, 307
Jessie, 308

WILLIAM LAIDLAW, 310
Lucy's flittin', 314
Her bonnie black e'e, 316
Alake for the lassie, 317

METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.

ALEXANDER MACDONALD, 321
The lion of Macdonald, 323
The brown dairy-maiden, 327
The praise of Morag, 329
News of Prince Charles, 335

JOHN ROY STUART, 340
Lament for Lady Macintosh, 341
The day of Culloden, 343

JOHN MORRISON, 346
My beauty dark, 347

ROBERT MACKAY, 349
The Highlander's home sickness, 349

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GLOSSARY, 350

THE

MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL.

JAMES HOGG.

The last echoes of the older Border Minstrelsy were dying from the
memory of the aged, and the spirit which had awakened the strains seemed
to have sighed an eternal farewell to its loved haunts in the past,
when, suddenly arousing from a long slumber, it threw the mantle of
inspiration, at the close of last century, over several sons of song,
worthy to bear the lyre of the