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London, England, 1821-11-14 00:00:00

THE KIT-CAT CLUB.

This day were published, in One large Volume, super royal 4to.
with Forty-eight Plates, price d 4 4s. boards,
MEMOIRS of.the CELEBRATED PERSONS
composing the KIT-CAT CLUB; with a Prefatory Ac-
count of the Oatcui of the ASSOCIATION; illustrated with Forty-
eight Portraits from the Original Paintinzo by Sir GODFREY
KNIILLSIL.

" The Kit- Cat, Club, generally mentioned as a set of Wits, were,
in reality, thc Patriots that &wed Brit.sio."—llorace Walpole.
London : Printed fur Hurst, Robinson, and ('o. 90, Cbeapside.

This Work contains teary curious erticles of Biography,
as well as a great variety of amusing Anecdotes : it also com-
prises Lliogr.tphic;d Notices of the most eminent Persons who
flourished dining the latter part of the lith, .nd first half of the
18th Century ; including the °.•rrat• Duke of Marlborough, Sir
Robert Walpole, Sir Richard Steele, Sir Samuel Garth, Joseph
Addison, William Cengreve, Tonson, the Bookseller, &c. &c.
A copious Index edded, in order to render the Volume useful
for reference as well as for the purposes of illustration, for which
(owing to the multiplicity of allusions to celebrated Characters
contained in its pages) it is peculiarly adapted.

LIVES OF EMINENT SCOTSMEN.
With 200 Portrititg.

This day was published, with Five Portraits, Part lIL
price us. 6d. of
LIVES of EMINENT SCOTSMEN, by the 50.1.41
.1.41 ciety of Ancient Scots, re-established 1770; commencing
with LIVES of scorrtsii ',ma's; bring 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 Wyntuun, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ram-
say, Meston, John Home, James Beattie, and Robert
Burns; and is embellislud with Portraits of James the First,
Ramsay, Home, Beattie, and Burns.
Part _,includes Lives ofJames the Fifth, William Dunbar, 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
Gilbertfield, Samuel Colvin, Alexander Ross, John Armstrong,
John Ogilvie, James Macpherson, and Charles Salmon; with
Portraits of James the Ssth, John Armstrong, Hamilton of
Bangour, James Macpherson, and Arthur Johnston.
All Ils! l'rtrcils aw elegant'!" illgraced on steel.
'Among a variety of other original and interesting matter inter-
spersed throughout, are the original words, never before pub-
lished, to a favourite old Scottish Air, and a Song by Burns not
in any of the editions of his collected works.
Those :Memoirs will be arranged into separate classes, making
one class of the Peers, a second of the litsrenuato, a third of
the PHILO.OTIICRS, and so on with the various other denomina-
tions of character.
The Lit as of the Purrs will occupy the first Six Parts, and
be furnished with appropriate Titles tor binding, so as to form a
complete work by themselves, as well as a part of the whole; simi-
lar titles will be given to each of the other classes, as published.
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 now 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 he published on the Ist of November.
CRITIQUES ON THE ABOVE WORK.
A COLLECTION LIU THESE Lives, WAS A DESIDERATIM in our
National Literature.—We could follow these Memoirs one by
one, and dwell upon the names and works of some of them until
we had perhaps exhausted the reader's patience and our own
powers.--We are persuaded that the public will appreciate
this elegant little work at its due rate; for our own pans, we
have been much delighted with the enterniument it has afforded
us."—New Monthly Miqatine.
" The Lives of EMINENT SCOTSMEN, by the Society of Ancient
Scots, is a little work which might subdue even the national anti-
pathies of Dr. Johnson. It consists of short notices of the bit,-
graphy and works of the most distinguished men of letters of
that nation, written in a very pleasing style; and its moderate
price and convenimt size, bid fair to render it a familiar pocket
companion. Amongst the articles of most interest in this part
of the work (Part 1) sbilich is devoted to the Poets are the Lives
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 are here introduced to his fa-
vourable notice."--sMenehly Mag.
‘` 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 we here meet
with many cow facts, some sew productions of the authors, and
an original estimate of the talents and character of each indivi-
dual. We are not led into the track of former biographers, but
each is an original memoir, as much so in style and diction as if
no other had existed."—Literary Ckron.
" It may be fairly stated, that the first part is a very agree-
able sample. We shall not go further into the subject than to
signify our general approbation of its plan and execution."
literary Casette.
London: Printed fur Titostss Boys, 7, Ludgate-bill (from
Paternoster-row); and sold by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh;
and all other Booksellers.