181/377 Reviewed in _Edinburgh Review_, No. 306 (October, 1906).] [Footnote 51: See the examples given in the preceding note. Most of the changes there spoken of were made without annotation.] [Footnote 52: This extraordinary young man was poet and scholar on his own account by 1800, though he was four years younger than Scott. His erudition in many fields was remarkable, and he was as enthusiastic as Scott himself about Scotch poetry, and was the chief assistant in gathering ballads for the _Minstrelsy_. |