The first part is preceded by the Introductory Remarks on Popular Poetry, and by the historical introduction.

The second part is preceded by the essay on The Fairies of Popular Superstition; and the third by the essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad.

The poems by Scott given in this third part are as follows: _Thomas the Rhymer_ (parts 2 and 3), _Glenfinlas_, _The Eve of St.John_, _Cadyow Castle_, _The Gray Brother_, _War Song of the Royal Edinburgh Light Dragoons_.
Besides these there are three poems by John Leyden (and he has also an _Ode on Scottish Music_ preceding the Romantic ballads), two by C.K.
Sharpe, three by John Marriott, who was tutor to the children of the Duke of Buccleuch, and one each by Matthew Lewis, Anna Seward, Dr.
Jamieson, Colin Mackenzie, J.B.S.Morritt, and an unnamed author.

In the other parts of the book there are a few imitations, notably the three by Surtees--_Lord Ewine_, the _Death of Featherstonhaugh_, and _Barthram's Dirge_, which Scott supposed were old; and one or two like the _Flowers of the Forest_, which he noted as largely modern, or which he had found, after arranging his material, to be wholly modern.
Nearly forty old ballads were published in the _Minstrelsy_ for the first time.] [Footnote 67: _Remarks on Popular Poetry_, conclusion.] [Footnote 68: Review of the Poems of William Herbert.

_Edinburgh Review_, October, 1806.] [Footnote 69: Stanzas 10-12, and 31, are noted by Child as particularly suspicious.