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After the success of “Marmion," I felt inclined to exclaim with Ulysses in the
Odyssey

Ούτος μεν δή άεθλος άβατος εκτετέλεσται. .
Νυν αυτε σκοπόν άλλον. .

Odys. %. 1. 5.
“ One venturous game my hand has won to-day-

Anotber, gallants, yet remains to play."

The ancient manners, the habits and customs of the aboriginal race by whom the Highlands of Scotland were inhabited, had always appeared to me peculiarly adapted to poetry. The change in their manners, too, had taken place almost within my own time, or at least I bad learned many particulars concerning the ancient state of the Highlands from the old men of the last generation. I had always thought the old Scottish Gael bigbly adapted for poetical composition. The feuds, and political dissensions, which, half a century earlier, would have rendered the richer and wealthier part of the kingdom indisposed to countenance a poem, the scene of which was laid in the Highlands, were now sunk in the generous compassion which the English, more than any other nation, feel for the misfortunes of an honourable foe. The Poems of Ossian bad, by their popularity, sufficiently shown, that if writings on Highland subjects were qualified to interest the reader, mere national prejudices were, in the present day, very unlikely to interfere with their

success.

I had also read a great deal, seen much, and heard more, of that romantic country, where I was in the habit of spending some time every autumn; and the scenery of Loch Katrine was connected with the recollection of many a dear friend and merry expedition of former days. This poem, the action of wbich lay among