The book of British ballads . the recesses of the Border mountains, fre-quently remember and repeat the warlike songs of their fathers. This is more espe-cially the case in what are called the South Highlands, where, in many instances, thesame families have occupied the same possessions for centuries. It was from the latter source that Sir Walter chiefly drew the materials for hiswork; — they were, he states, collected during his early youth ; and among thenotes to the latest edition of the Minstrelsy is the following:— There is in thelibrary at Abbotsford a collection of ballads, partly print
The book of British ballads . the recesses of the Border mountains, fre-quently remember and repeat the warlike songs of their fathers. This is more espe-cially the case in what are called the South Highlands, where, in many instances, thesame families have occupied the same possessions for centuries. It was from the latter source that Sir Walter chiefly drew the materials for hiswork; — they were, he states, collected during his early youth ; and among thenotes to the latest edition of the Minstrelsy is the following:— There is in thelibrary at Abbotsford a collection of ballads, partly printed broadsides, partly in MS., insix small volumes, which, from the handwriting, must have been formed by Sir WalterScott while he was attending the earlier classes of Edinburgh College. Buchanscollection was gathered directly as they fell from the lips of old people. We rejoice tolearn that his rugged, but primitive and interesting volumes, are about to be reprinted• by subscription — they have been long out of 294
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