He also collected the material for the essay on Fairies in the second volume, which was especially praised by the reviewer in the _Edinburgh Review_ (January, 1803).
Leyden's chief fame was derived from his wonderfully varied activities in India, from 1803 to his early death in 1811.

Any reader of Lockhart's _Life of Scott_ or of Scott's delightful little memoir, published first in the _Edinburgh Annual Register_ for 1811, and included in the _Miscellaneous Prose Works_, must feel that the uncouth young genius is a familiar acquaintance.] [Footnote 53: The Ettrick Shepherd, who, after reading the first two volumes of the _Minstrelsy_, sought an acquaintance with Scott, and offered assistance which was gladly made use of in the preparation of the third volume.

Scott in his turn provided much of the material for Hogg's _Jacobite Relics_, published in 1819.

The following note on one of the songs in that work adds to the reader's doubts concerning the accuracy of Scott's texts: "I have not altered a word from the manuscript, which is in the handwriting of an amanuensis of Mr.
Scott's, the most incorrect transcriber, perhaps, that ever tried the business." (_Jacobite Relics_, Vol.

I, p.282.Note on song lxiii.)] [Footnote 54: Henderson's edition of the _Minstrelsy_, Vol.