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London, England, 1821-10-23 00:00:00

CURIOSITIES FOR THE INGENIOUS.

This day was published, with Twelve Copperplates, price 3s. in
extra boards,

CCURIOSITIES for the INGENIOUS : selected
from the most authentic Treasures of Nature, Science and
Ar:, Biography, History, and General Literature.
London : Printed for Thomas Boys, 7, Ludgate-hill, (from
Paternoster-row); and sold by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh;
and all other Booksellers.

LIVES OF EMINENT SCOTSMEN.
With 200 Portraits.
This day was published, with Five Portraits, Part 111.
prSo-.
2s. Gd.
LIVES
of EMINENT SCOTSMEN, by the S 1
ciety of Ancient Scots, re-established 1770; copmeacing
with LIVES of SCOTTISH POETS; being the First of the
Series of Original Memoirs of Eminent Scotsmen, by the Society
of Ancient Scots, now in course of publication.
Part 1, includes Lives of James the First, Thomas the Rhymer,
John Barbour, Andrew Wyntoun, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ram-
say, William Meston, John Home, James Beanie, and Robert
Burro ; and is embellished with Portraits of James the First,
Ramsay, Home, Beattie, and Burns.
• Part includes Lives of James the Fifth, William Thinbar, Sir
James Inglis, Henry the Minstrel, Sir David Lindsay, Alexander
Barclay, Alexander Montgomery, Earl of Stirling, William
Drummond. James Thomson, and John Oswald; with Portraits
of Sir David Lindsay, James the Fifth, • Drummond of Haw-
thornden, Earl of Stirling, and James Thomson.
Part 3, Includes Lives of James the Sixth, Sir Richard Mait-
land, Arthur Johnston, Hamilton of Bangour, Hamilton of
Gilhertfield, Samuel Colvin, Alexander Ross, John Armstrong,
John Ogilvie, James Macpherson, and Charles Salmon; with
Portraits of James the Sixth, John Armstrong, Hamilton of
Bangour, James Macpherson, and Arthur Johnston.
All the Portraits are degaraly engraved on nett
Among a variety of other original and interesting matter inter-1
spersed throughout, are the original words, never before pub.
fished, to a favourite old Scottish Air, and a Song by Burns not'
in any of the editions of his collected works.
These Memoirs will be arranged into separate classes, making
one class of the Poses, a second of the Ilwroataxs, a third of
the PHILOSOPHERS, and so on with the various other denomina-
tions of character.

The Lives of the Porn will occupy the first Six Parts, and
be furnished with appropriate Titles for binding,,aras to form a
complete work by themselves, as well as a part of the wbole; simi-
lar titles will be given to each of the other classes, b•pnfilished.
This work will be of a pocket size, and published in a series of
monthly parts, probably about 40, each part consisting of 180
pages, embellished with five portraits, executed in a new and
beautiful style of engraving, by which every print will be equal
to a first, or what is commonly called a proof impression.
Part 4 will be published on the lit of November.
CRITIQUES ON THE ABOVE WORK.

A COLLECTIONLUCE THESE LAT/CS, WAS • DESIDERATUM in OUT
National Literature.—We could follow these Memoirs one by
one, and dwell upon the names and works of some of them until
we had perbaps exhausted the reader's patience and our own
powers.—We are persuaded that the public will appreciate
this elegant little work at its doe rate; for our own parts' we
have been much delighted with the entertainment it has afforded
us."—New Monthly Magadne.
" The Lives of EMINENT SCOTSMEN, by the Society of Ancienti
Scots, is a little work which might subdue even the national anti.
parities of Dr. Johnson. It consists of short notices of the bits.
graph y and works of the most distinguished men of letters of '
that nation, written in a very pleasing style; and its moderate
price and convenient size bid fair to render it a familiar pocket
companion. Amongst the articles of most interest In this part
of the work (Part 1) which is devoted to the Poets are the Lees
of James the First (of Scotland), Ramsay, Beattie, and Burns.
To the general English reader, such names as Barbour and Wyn-
toun are comparatively unknown; but he cannot fail to be pleased
with the manner in which they arc here introduced to his fa-
vat.rab"e notice."-3feitildy Meg.
Although the first part contains biographies only of persons
who are so well known that it might be supposed everything
respecting them had already been published, yet ere here meet
with many new facts, some new productions of the authors, and
an original estimate of the talents and character of each
We are not led into the track of former biographers, hut
rack is an original memoir, as muck so in style and diction as if
no other had existed."—Literery Ciro&
It may be fairly stated, that the first part is a very agree-
able sample. We shall nut go further into the subject than to
signify oar general approbation of its plan add execution."
Literary Gazette.
London: Printed for Thames Bora, 7, Ludgate.hili (from
Paternoster-row) ; and sold by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh;
and all giber Booksellers.

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