I would recommend, as a copious and judicious selection of Scottish _tunes_, "The Scottish Minstrel," by R.A.Smith (Purdie, Edinburgh).

There are the _words_, also, of a vast number of Scottish songs, but the account of their _authorship_ is very defective.

Then, again, for the fine Scottish ballads of an older period, we have two admirable collections--one by Mr.R.Chambers, and one by the late Professor Aytoun.

For Scottish dialect songs of the more modern type, a copious collection will be found (exclusive of Burns and Allan Earn say) in small volumes published by David Robertson, Glasgow, at intervals from 1832 to 1853, under the title of _Whistlebinkie_.
But there are more than lines of Scottish poetry which may become matter of reminiscence, and more than Scottish song melodies which may be forgotten.

There are strains of Scottish PSALMODY of which it would be more sad to think that _they_ possibly may have lost their charm and their hold with Scottish people.