The anonymous Author of this volume, John Boyd Greenshields, Esq., was the son
of Mr. John Greenshields, merchant, Glasgow. He passed as Advocate in 1793,
and distinguished himself at the Scottish Bar. He died in 1845.
"This translation (it is said in the Notes) was made originally from the German of
Goethe; but I have since met with another translation by the Abate Fortis, in
his Travels in Dalmatia. Goethe's performance, as we might expect, is in general
superior to the Abate's; but, in some instances, the latter seems to me preferable,
and I have therefore followed those passages in which he appears to have
excelled his fellow-translator."

In the Viaggio in Dalmazia, dell' Abate Alberto Fortis (Venezia, 1774, vol. i. pp. 98-
105), the original ballad is given, along with an Italian translation, in connexion
with the division "De' Costumi de' Morlacchi," addressed to "My Lord Gio-
vanni Stuart, Conte di Bute," etc. The ballad in the original has the title,
"Xalostna Pjesanza plemenite Asan Aghinize;" and in the Italian version,
"Canzone Dolente della nobile Sposa d'Asan Aga." In the English translation
of the Travels, 1778, no mention is made of the Ballad.

From Scott's Life by Lockhart (second edition, vol. i. pp. 339, 340) we learn that besides his translation of The Chase, Scott intended to have published a volume by Manners & Miller, in 1796, of Dramas from the German, all in prose like the originals; but he also versified, at the same time, some lyrical fragments of Goethe, as, for example, the Morlachian Ballad,

"What yonder glimmers so white on the mountain?"

and the Song from Claudina von Villa Bella.

1808.

284. SCOTT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, known as THE ASHESTIEL MANUSCRIPT. The Original Manuscript.

Lent by

JAMES R. HOPE SCOTT, ESQ., Q.C.

A Facsimile of the first two pages of this very interesting MS. is given on the opposite leaf.

*** The Ashestiel Manuscript forms the commencement of Mr. Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott. In a Volume, "collected and bound by me, in December 1848, J. G. L.” (John G. Lockhart).

THE ORIGINAL MS. OF SIR WALTER SCOTT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 50 leaves. There is added in this Volume :-1. The Petition of Walter Scott for admission as an Advocate, 1791. (Exhibited as No. 362.) 2. Certificate of Sir Walter's Marriage in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Carlisle, 23d December 1797. 3. Commission, Walter Scott, Esq., to Mr. Charles Erskine, Sheriff-substitute of Selkirkshire, 14th March 1800. 4. Commission by Lord Napier, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Selkirk, in favour of Walter Scott, Esq., appointing him a Deputy-Lieutenant of said County, 1800. 5. Burgess Ticket for the Burgh of Kirkwall, 1814. 6. Burgess Ticket for the Burgh of Dunfermline.

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II. THE WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

(I.)—THE EARLIEST EDITIONS OF THE POEMS, ETC.

285. THE CHASE, AND WILLIAM AND HELEN: Two Ballads from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürger.

Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, R. Bank Close, for Manners and Miller,
Parliament Square; and sold by T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies (successors to
Mr. Cadell), in the Strand, London. 1796. 4to, title, pp. v. 41.

286. GOETZ OF BERLICHINGEN, WITH THE IRON HAND: A TRAGEDY translated from the German of Goethé, Author of the Sorrows of Werter, etc. By Walter Scott, Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh.

London: Printed for J. Bell, No. 148 Oxford Street, opposite New Bond Street. 1799. 8vo, pp. xvi. 202.

286*. THE EVE OF SAINT JOHN. A Border Ballad. By Walter Scott, Esq., Advocate.

Kelso Printed by James Ballantyne, at the Kelso Mail Printing Office. 1800. 4to. Titles 2 leaves, and pp. 11. A copy in the British Museum is marked 11,642 g. *** On comparing this with the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II., and with the republication of "Ballads, etc.," in 1806, there are several verbal corrections or alterations subsequently made by the Author.

287. MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER: Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a few of modern date, founded upon Local Tradition.

Kelso: Printed by James Ballantyne, for T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, Strand, London; and sold by Manners and Miller, and A. Constable, Edinburgh. 1802. 2 vols. 8vo.

The copy exhibited by Mr. Gibson Craig, along with Vol. III., added in 1803 when the Work was republished as a Second Edition, had the view of Hermitage Castle, Williams, del., Walker, sculpt., only inserted in the fine-paper copies. In all the copies Vol. III. is called "the Second Edition." Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne for Longman and Rees, Paternoster Row, London; and sold by Manners and Miller, and A. Constable, Edinburgh. 1803. 8vo.

288. THE MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER. In Three Volumes. Second Edition.

Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne for Longman and Rees, Paternoster Row, London; and sold by Manners and Miller, and A. Constable, Edinburgh. 1803. 3 vols. 8vo. Thick paper copy.

289. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: A Poem. By Walter Scott, Esq.

London Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row; and A.
Constable and Co., Edinburgh, by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh. 1805. 4to.

*** On the fly-leaf of the copy exhibited, lent from the Abbotsford Library, is
written, "Mrs. Scott, from her affectionate Son, the Author."

290. ANOTHER COPY of the same Edition, with Manuscript Corrections and Additions by the Author. (See No. 231.)

"This copy was prepared for the Second Edition, upon the principle of abbreviating the Notes recommended by the Edinburgh Review in their notice of the Poem. But my friend Mr. Constable would not hear of the proposed Abridgment, and so the antiquarian matter was retained.-W. S.-15th June 1821."

291. THE SAME, Third Edition. Edinburgh. 1806. 8vo.

*** A Presentation Copy, lent by D. MILNE HOME of Wedderburn, Esq., with a Letter prefixed from the Author to George Home, Esq.

292. BALLADS AND LYRICAL PIECES. By Walter Scott, Esq.

Edinburgh Printed by James Ballantyne and Co., for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and
Orme, London; and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh. 1806. 8vo.
“AdvertisemenT.-These Ballads have been already published in different collec-
tions, some in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, others in The Tales of
Wonder, and some in both these Miscellanies. They are now first collected into
one Volume. The Songs have been written at different times for the Musical
Collections of Mr. George Thomson and Mr. White."

The Tales of Wonder, written and collected by M. G. Lewis, Esq., M.P., appeared at
London, 1801, in 2 vols. royal 8vo.

293. MARMION: A TALE OF FLODDEN FIELD. By Walter Scott, Esq.

"Alas! that Scottish Maid should sing

The combat where her lover fell!
That Scottish Bard should wake the string,

The triumph of our foes to tell."-LEYDEN.

Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company,
Edinburgh; and William Miller and John Murray, London.

1808. 4to.