University of Virginia Library

To the Editor of the Literary Journal.

Sir,

The three last numbers of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine contain three cantos of an epic poem, called Daniel O'Rourke. The story, of which this is a new version, is very old, and probably familiar to a great many people. In an old Manchester Almanac, I find the version which I send you. It may have been from the pen of Mr. Words-worth, as it has much of the characteristic simplicity of Betty Foy, Goody Blake, and Harry Gill.