newspaper cuttings and other illustrations, and has added the following
note:--

"Auld Robin Gray; a ballad by the Right Honourable Lady Anne
Barnard, born Lady Anne Lindsay of Balcarras; Edin. printed by
James Ballantyne and Co. 1825, qto. This is the first authentic
edition of this beautiful Scottish ballad, and forms one of the
publications by Sir Walter Scott as a member of the Bannatyne Club.
The publication gives an interesting account of the authoress--of
the origin of the ballad--the ballad--continuation of Auld Robin
Gray, all from the same hand; it is to be regretted it is not
published for wider circulation. It will, it may be expected, find
a vent for the publick at some future period, and some of the
gatherings in this volume swell a note or two, if not a page.--See
'Cens. Lib.' vol. ix. p. 323. for another ballad called,
'Continuation of Auld Robin Gray.' Auld Robin gray's Ghaist begins
'Right sweetly sang the nightingale,' among my Scotch songs. The
sequel to Auld Robin Gray begins, 'Full five long years' in do."

J.F.M.

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OPINIONS ON ENGLISH HISTORIANS.

II. _Lord Clarendon._

"This great historian is always too free with his judgments. But the
piety is more eminent than the superstition in this great man's
foibles."--Bishop Warburton, note, last edition, vol. vii. p. 590.