Miscellaneous essays and addresses.
Subtitle: Also biographical note and bibliography.
By: [Ed. by Robert Guy]
Series: Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William, Bart. Works -- vol. 6
Publisher: J.C. Nimmo
Published: 1901
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: History.; Proverbs.
Table of contents: title: The proverbial philosophy of Scotland; title: A few Spanish proverbs about friars; title: Wit and wisdom from West Africa; title: Adagia of Erasmus; title: William Hickling Prescott; title: Ticknor's Life of Prescott; title: Richard Ford (1); title: Richard Ford (2); title: Sir Robert Strange; title: The Dukes of Urbino; title: Devises and mottoes; title: Ancient Scottish seals; title: Spanish bull-fights; title: Rectorial address: St. Andrew; title: On some varieties of historical style; title: The fall of two empires, 1814 and 1870; title: Sir Walter Scott; title: Rectorial address: Edinburgh; title: Chancellor's address: Glasgow.