This edition contains the complete works, with arguments and notes. To Vol. 1 is prefixed Macpherson’s Dissertation on the Aera of Ossian. A specimen of the original of Temora, Bk. vii, is given at the end of Vol. 4, pp. 183–204.—Edited by Merck, cp. Works, 1773.—New edition, 1783.
Review: Allg. deutsche Bibl., Vol. 36, ii, p. 603 (1778).
Balladen und Lieder altenglischer und altschottischer Dichtart. Herausgegeben von August Friedrich Ursinus. Berlin. pp. 136–55: Armyn an Kirmor. Ein altschottisches Gedicht. Von Crome. pp. 290–9: Colma. Ein altschottisches Fragment. Von Crome.
Both are reprinted from the Unterhaltungen, 1767, e. g. The English originals are given on the pages opposite.
Deutsches Museum. Leipzig, i, pp. 214–5: Notice of the MSS. of the poems of Ossian in a letter [by Sturz]: Briefe eines Reisenden vom Jahre 1868. Erster Brief. London den 18ten Aug.
Helfrich Peter Sturz’s (1736–79) views on the authenticity of the works of Ossian. Macpherson showed him the alleged originals and he is convinced of the genuineness of the poems. Cp. Schriften, 1779.
Brittisches Museum für die Deutschen. Leipzig. Vol. I, i, pp. 136–7: Review of The Fingal of Ossian, ... rendered into Heroic Verse, by Ewen Cameron, Warrington, 1776.
Der Teutsche Merkur vom Jahr 1777. Weimar, ii, pp. 196–8: Comala, eine Celtische Geschichte, von B. G. B.
A poem in rimed quatrains, based upon the episode of Comal and Galvina, Fingal, Bk. ii, pp. 234–5.