THE groundwork of the following selection from the
Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland, is a little
volume published by Messrs. Griffin and Co. of
Glasgow, in the year 1829, under the title of
"Jacobite Minstrelsy-with notes illustrative of
the text and containing historical details in rela-
tion to the House of Stuart from 1640 to 1784."
Ten years previously the Ettrick Shepherd had pub-
lished his first series of "Jacobite Relics," and had
followed up the subject in 1821, by a second volume.
Hogg's collection, though interesting, was untrust-
worthy. He made no distinction between the Cava-
liers and the Jacobites, and none between English,
Scottish, and Irish songs, though his volumes pur-
ported to contain only Scottish Relics. In addition
to this, he admitted many modern songs
and ballads
even some written by himself-into a collection which could have but little value, unless it justified its title. To inflate into two volumes a work that