257
The emigrant's love-letter, 259

THOMAS LYLE, 261
Kelvin Grove, 264
The trysting hour, 265
Harvest song, 266

JAMES HOME, 267
Mary Steel, 268
Oh, hast thou forgotten? 269
The maid of my heart, 270
Song of the emigrant, 271
This lassie o' mine, 272

JAMES TELFER, 273
Oh, will ye walk the wood wi' me? 273
I maun gae over the sea, 275

METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.

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EVAN MACLACHLAN, 279
A melody of love, 281
The mavis of the clan, 282

JOHN BROWN, 286
The sisters of Dunolly, 287

CHARLES STEWART, D.D., 289
Luineag--a love carol, 290

ANGUS FLETCHER, 292
The Clachan of Glendaruel, 292
The lassie of the glen, 294

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GLOSSARY, 295

THE

MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL.

HENRY SCOTT RIDDELL.

Henry Scott Riddell, one of the most powerful and pleasing of the living
national song-writers, was born on the 23d September 1798, at Sorbie, in
the Vale of Ewes--a valley remarkable for its pastoral beauty, lying in
the south-east of Dumfriesshire. His father was a shepherd, well
acquainted with the duties of his profession, and a man of strong though
uned