BLIND, or HARRY THE MINSTREL, whose history is an exact modern parallel of the traditional account of Homer, flourished in the fifteenth century. All that is known of him (and it is very little) is derived from Major the historian, who says of him—"Henry, who was blind from his birth, composed in the time of my youth the whole book of William Wallace, and embodied all the traditions about him in the ordinary measure, in which he was well skilled. By the recitation of these in presence of the great, he procured, as indeed he deserved, food and clothing." Blind Harry's work is in eleven books, and contains a great many animated and picturesque descriptions, especially of war and battle pieces. Sir Walter Scott turned his knowledge of Blind Harry to good account; though he does not seem to have attached the same importance to it as to Barbour's Bruce.