Crossword-Solution: EMENDED 7 letters, 35 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The references, the explanations of the sources used, and the interpretations given, and, especially, numerous emendations of the text of the Midrashim and the pseudepigrapha, which determined my conception of the passages so emended, will be found in the last volume, the fourth, which will contain also an Introduction to the History of Jewish Legends, a number of Excursuses, and the Index.

Conceivably the words, 'as now it is' refer to the edition of 1619, which might have been emended by Walton's advice.

Does any one think Hogg crafty enough to have invented Babby Maitland as the source of a song about the Maitlands, and to have introduced her into his narrative in 1834? I conjecture that this Maitland woman knew a Maitland song, modernised in time, and perhaps copied out and emended by one of the Maitland family, possibly one of the descendants of Lethington.

But I quite agree with Colonel Elliot, that the ballad, _as it stands_ (with the exception, to my mind, of some thirty stanzas, themselves emended), “belongs to the early nineteenth century, not to the early seventeenth.” The time for supposing the poem, _as it stands_, to be “saturated with the folk-spirit” all through is past; the poem is far too much contaminated by the genius of Scott itself; like Burns’ transfiguration of “the folk-spirit” at its best.

Kittredge speaks of Sir Walter’s unique success with _Kinmont Willie_; but is Sir Walter successful? Some of his stanzas I, for one, can hardly accept, even as emended traditional verses.