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Project Gutenberg's The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI., by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Author: Various Release Date: September 5, 2007 [EBook #22515] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL *** Produced by Susan Skinner, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: THE MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL; BY CHARLES ROGERS, LL.D. F.S.A. SCOT. VOL. I. THE AULD HOUSE O' GASK. _THE BIRTH PLACE OF LADY NAIRN._ _(Copied by permission of Patterson & Sons)_ EDINBURGH: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS TO THE QUEEN.] * * * * * [Illustration: SIR WALTER SCOTT BART. Lithographed for the Modern Scottish Minstrel, by Schenck & McFarlane.] * * * * * THE MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL; OR, THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND OF THE PAST HALF CENTURY. WITH Memoirs of the Poets, AND SKETCHES AND SPECIMENS IN ENGLISH VERSE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MODERN GAELIC BARDS. BY CHARLES ROGERS, LL.D. F.S.A. SCOT. IN SIX VOLUMES; VOL. I. EDINBURGH: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY. M.DCCC.LV. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PAUL'S WORK. TO WILLIAM STIRLING, ESQ. OF KEIR, M.P., AN ENLIGHTENED SENATOR, AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR, AND AN INGENIOUS POET, THIS FIRST VOLUME OF The Modern Scottish Minstrel IS, WITH HIS KIND PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS VERY OBEDIENT, FAITHFUL SERVANT, CHARLES ROGERS. PREFACE. Scotland has probably produced a more patriotic and more extended minstrelsy than any other country in the world. Those Caledonian harp-strains, styled by Sir Walter Scott "gems of our own mountains," have frequently been gathered into caskets of national song, but have never been stored in any complete cabinet; while no attempt has been made, at least on an ample scale, to a
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