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London, England, 1821-11-07 00:00:00

' LIVES OF EMINENT SCOTSMEN.
With 200 Portraits. '
- 1 h day was published, with Five Portraits, Part
price 2i. 6d. of
T _IVES of EMINENT SCOTSMEN, by the So-
JAI dety of Ancieet Scots, re-established 1770; commencing
sash LIVES of SCOTTISH POETS; being the First of the
ors of Original Memoirs of Eminent Scotsmen, by the Society
of Ancient Scots, now in course of publication.
part l,includes Lives of.laines the First, Thomas the 'Rhymer,
Jehn Ilathour, Andrew Wyntoun, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ram-
.l, Nubian Meston, John Home, James Beanie, and Robert
Rini soli is e.nhelli.hed with Portraits of James the First,
jjamsay, Rome, Beattie, an 4 Burns.
Part %includes Lives ofJames the Fifth, William Thinbar, Sir
James Inglis, Henry the' Minstrel, Sir David Lindsay, Alexander
Ruclay, Aleaandar 'Montgomery. Earl of Stilling, William
Prue:mond. James Thomson, and John Oswald; with Portraits
of Sir David Lindsay, James the Fifth, Drummond of Haw-
*meet', Kul of Stirling, and James Thomson.
Part .5, includes Lives of James the Sixth, Sir Richard Wt..
land, Arthur Johnston, Hamilton of Itangotir, Hamilton of
Clberthehl, Samuel Cetlvin, Alexinder Boss, John Armstrong,
John Ogilvie, James Macpherson, and Charles Salmon; with
Portraits of James the Sixth, Armstrong, Hamilton of
rangour, James Macpherson, end Arthur Johnston.
Atha Portivits are elegantly en -frneett en 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 etlitiona of Was collected works.
These Benioirs will be arranged into separate classes, making
one class of the Poets, a second of the Ilisvoinaxs, a third of
the Pouasorucss, and so on with the various .othee deuomina-
lions of character. •
The bees of the Purrs will occupy the first faix Parts, and
be finished with appiorniate Titles for binding, so as to form a
tamplettwork 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 packet size, and published in a series of
atoatbly parts, probably about 40, each part consisting of 180
page:, 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 piddished on the Ist of November.
CRITIQUES ON THE ABOVE WORK.
A cou.acnow LIKE THESE Lives, WAS A WESIDENATUM in OUT
National literature.—We could follow these Memoirs one by
cue, and dwell upon the names and works of some of them until
we bad perhaps exhausted the reader's patience and our own
powers.--We are persuaded that the public will appreciate
this elegant tittle work at its due rate; for our own parts, we
lure been saocli delighted with the entertainment it has afforded
si.—New Atundify Magaziae.
" The Lives of EMINENT Scotsmen, by the Sickly of 'lndent
Sags, is a little work which might subdue even the uational anti-
pthies of Dr. Johnson. It consists of short notices of the bio-
graphy 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
ampaiiion. Amongst the articles of must interest in this
tithe work (Part 1) which is devoted to the Poets are the Lis-es
of Junes the First (of Scotland), Ramsay, Beanie, and Burns.
To the general English reader, such names as Barbour and Wyn-
nen are comparativt .1, unknown ; but he cannot fail to be pleased
wA the manner in which they are here introduced So his ta-
mable notice."—Alonthly Mug.
" Although the iir,t part contains biographies only of persons
wha are so well ithow a that it might be supposed everything
tweeting them had already been published, yet we here meet
with many stew facts, some mew productions of the authors, and
atiorigisal estimate of the t, tints and character of each indivi-
dual. We are not led into the track of former biographers, but
etch is an original memoir, as much so in style and diction as if
soother had existed."—Literary ('.iron.
It may be fairly stated, that the first part is a very agree-
able sanple. We shall not go further intas the subject than to
toffy our general approbation of its plan and execution."
Liferwry Gazette.
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mod all other Booksellers. •