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PREFACE.

cularly regrets this circumstance on account of the disappointment that he well knows it will occasion. The liberality, indeed, with which materials have been supplied, has left him no difficulty but in the selection, and rendered that task not a little embarrassing: and though the manner in which he has performed it may, in certain cases, have excited feelings of personal pique, and even anger, still he cannot suffer that consideration to deter him from the conscientious discharge of the duty which he has undertaken.

It is but justice to remark, that the Editor is indebted for the short poems to which the distinguished names of Campbell and Moore are affixed, and also for the Fragments by Tannahill, to the kindness of literary friends, by whom they have been communicated in the persuasion that they are genuine, and that they have never yet appeared in print. With these exceptions, the present volume contains no compositions but what have been contributed by the writers themselves.

The estimation in which this Miscellany is held, both at home and abroad, might be in-

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