XXI.

A SABBATH among the MOUNTAINS; a Poem; THIRD EDITION; foolscap 8vo, 3s. boards.

"This is the religious effusion of an obviously sincere heart and ingenuous mind.-We regret that we have not room for doing justice to this Poem, by giving extracts from it; but we recommend it to the public attention, with a sincere interest in the merits of its author."-New Monthly Magazine.

"Here is a strong and pleasing description of the romantic mountain scenery; we seem to see the place, to feel the fervour, and be affected with the simplicity of the preacher, and share in the delight of beholding the order and improvement of the Sunday-school children, and the pious dignity of their venerable pastor. In short, this is a small poem of great beauty and high interest.”—Evangelical Magazine. See also Eclectic Review, London Magazine, Monthly Review, &c. &c.

XXII.

MY EARLY DAYS, 18mo, 2s. boards.

"This is really one of the best little volumes of its class which we have ever met with.”—Literary Gazette.

"The story is interesting, and the moral it inculcates excellent."-Literary Chronicle.

"It is an excellent book to put into the hands of children.”—Gentleman's Magazine.

"It is beautifully written; and were we to speak of it as warmly as we felt disposed to do under the fresh impression of the perusal, we might be suspected of partiality or extravagance."-Eclectic Review. "The principles it inculcates are directly conducive to the cultivation of filial piety, reverence for the Sabbath, and a watchful regard to the dictates of conscience in the formation of early habits. A higher degree of talent in the delineation of character is evinced in this volume, than in most of the publications of this order."-Congregational Magazine.

XXIII.

LETTERS from a LADY to her NIECE; containing Prac

tical Hints, intended to direct the Female Mind in the Pursuit of Attainments conducive to Virtue and Happiness; with a Frontispiece, designed by UWINS, and engraved by HORSBURGH; THIRD EDITION; 18mo, 2s. boards.

"The anonymous writer of Letters from a Lady to her Niece is more justly entitled to the praise of the judicious critic, and the thanks of her own sex, than many others who have been eager to avow their claim to their productions. The style is easy and elegant; the maxims inculcated are those of sound prudence and sincere virtue; and to any females entering into life, the perusal of this little volume will be attended with manifold advantages, in strengthening the intellectual powers, and indicating the most cligible path to the attainment of tranquillity of mind and true happiness."-Monthly Magazine.

XXIV.

THE CONTEST of the TWELVE NATIONS; or, A View of the different Bases of Human Character and Talent; in a thick volume Svo, 18s. boards. "The volume abounds in interest, both from the accurate and varied remark with which it is filled, and the complete freedom from prejudice with which it begins, continues, and ends."-Monthly Magasine.

"This work is an ingenious treatise on the differences of national character, and abounds with amusing illustrations. We know not of any other book in which such an amplitude of materials is brought to bear on this interesting subject, or so much order, method, and clearness of arrangement preserved in treating of it. A single chapter is allotted to each national character, or the energies which belong to active life, or to the genius and skill which belong to arts and manufactures."-Weekly Chronicle.

XXV.

A METHOD of FARM BOOK-KEEPING. By ALEXANDER TROTTER, Esq. of Dreghorn; exemplified by the Forms and Accounts actually practised by the Author in the Management of his Farm at Colinton, near Edinburgh; 8vo, 78. 6d. half-bound.

XXVI.

MILLAR'S IMPERIAL SCHOOL ATLAS; containing distinct Maps of the Empires, Kingdoms, and States of the World, with the Boundaries of Europe arranged agreeably to the late Distributions of Territory on the Continent, Το which are added, the most useful Maps of Ancient Geography, accompanied by Practical Directions and Diagrams for constructing Maps on the most approved projections; and a beautiful View of the Altitudes of the Principal Mountains, &c., imperial 4to, coloured outlines, 255. half-bound.

XXVII.

THE SCRAP BOOK; a Collection of Amusing and Striking

Pieces, in Prose and Verse; with an Introduction, and Occasional Remarks and Contributions, by Joяx M‘DIARMID, Author of the "Life of William Cowper," &c.; FIFTH EatTION; revised and improved; 2 vols post 8vo, 17s. boards.

Either volume may be had separately, price 8s. 6d. boards.

"For the firesides of the numerous class of men who have only leisure to read by fits and starts, this is an amusing and generally well-selected Miscellany. It is more original than most of the collections which have been compiled from time to time of late years, and, on the whole, presents a fair mixture of the grave and gay, selected from the ablest modern publications."-Literary Gazette.

-"They are exclusively selected from modern authors, and exhibit a sufficient extent of variety to be alluring to those readers who prefer light reading of this description to the trouble of selecting for themselves from more voluminous compositions. The original contributions, by the Editor, are not inferior to the selections.”—Monthly Magazine.

"This is an exceedingly entertaining and well-selected Miscellany; and, as a travelling companion, nothing can be conceived more calculated for amusement. It contains what is light and pleasant, as well as what is sententious and speculative-short amusing anecdotes, diversified with poetical extracts; so that we are sure, open the book where we will, to meet with some entertainment, more or less sub stantial, as we feel inclined. In short, this selection may be recommended as a model of works of this nature, and is the best literary contrivance that can be imagined for amusing a vacant hour.-Caledo nian Mercury.

"-Upon the whole, it affords many of the finest specimens of eloquence and reasoning to be found in the language, and which succeeding ages will hold too precious to be lost."-Edinburgh Magazine. • This work has also been favourably noticed in the New Monthly Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine, La Belle Assemblee, Scotsman, &c. &c.

XXVIII.

THE MAGIC RING; a Romance, from the German of FREDERICK, Baron de la MOTTE FOUQUE, 3 vols 12mo, 21s. boards.

"We have frequently borne testimony to the wild genius and fanciful imagination of the Baran de la Motte Fouque; but of all his works that have yet come before the English public, this appears to us the most interesting and the best. —New Monthly Magazine.

XXIX.

PAUL JONES, a Romance. By Allan CUNNINGHAM, Author of "Sir Marmaduke Maxwell," "Traditional Tales," &c.; 3 vols post 8vo, £1, 11s. 6d. boards.

"It has established the author's character as one of the most distinguished writers in the province of fiction."-New Monthly Magazine.

"It is wild, supernatural, and touched with extreme vigour and beauty.”—Literary Gazette.

"Mr Cunningham's present work is every way worthy of him. All already known of Paul Jones is incorporated in its pages, and to these slender materials the author has added iucidents, descriptions, and characters in excellent keeping with the rest, and formed a romance worthy of the subject and its fashioner."-Literary Chronicle.

"Paul Jones is an interesting work-a work which excites, and enchains, and rewards attention." -New Times.

"The volumes which he has laid before us abound in scenes of great force-in passages of great elequence."-Scotsman.

XXX.

WILLIAM DOUGLAS; or, The Scottish Exiles, a Historical Novel; 3 vols 12mo; 21s. boards.

"The chief characters in the book are well sustained; and in some of them we recognise real historical personages; while others, more the creation of the author, are made the actors of things which really happened."-Literary Gazette.

"But we must come to a close, highly approving of the tone, and not less of the execution of a work, which has, in our opinion, a higher moral claim to our regard than that of a mere novel."Literary Chronicle.

"This is a peculiar and extraordinary publication.-The great merit of the work, and the charm also to those who can enter into its spirit, is the sincerity and earnestness of principle which is displayed and sustained throughout."-Scotsman.

"It depicts, with much strength of colouring, the misery of the persecuted Covenanters, and sometimes, with exquisite pathos and high ability, their constancy in suffering and exile; while the shifting of the scene to a transatlantic region gives variety to the entertainment, and affords the occasion of much fine moral as well as natural description."-Edinburgh Weekly Journal.

"There is an enchantment and vivacity about this production which cannot fail to procure for it a lasting fame. The volumes are, beyond doubt, the production of a master-pen."-Evangelical Magazine.

XXXI.

WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP; a Novel, from the German of Goethe; in 3 vols post 8vo, £1, 11s. 6d. boards.

ard.

It is a work of a man of high and peculiar genius, and is not to be measured by a foreign standMany parts of it are full of thought and beauty, and some of the poetry, even in the translation, is highly pleasing. In the first volume we find a translation of the celebrated lines which Lord Byron copied in the commencement of the Bride of Abydos. We ought to observe also, that the original of Sir Walter Scott's Fenella is to be found in the wild and singular character of Mignon."-New Monthly Mag.

XXXII.

JANUS; or, The Edinburgh Literary Almanack, post 8vo,

12s. boards.

"The whole melange is extremely agreeable, and the marks of high talent are every where prominent."-Literary Gazette.

"Though no signatures mark the respective articles, many of them are evidently the productions of men of superior talents; and we have heard some of the most eminent writers of the day named as contributors."-Literary Chronicle.

"We can safely recommend the volume as an amusing one, happily varied with matter, grave, gay, and instructive."-Monthly Magazine.

"It is full of good things, many of which, did our room permit, we should be eager to quote in our pages. Our voice is, however, gladly added to the number of those which have already proclaimed the sterling merit of this new volume."-New Monthly Magazine.

XXXIII.

FOREIGN SCENES and TRAVELLING RECREATIONS. By JOHN HOWISON, Esq. of the Honourable East India Company's Service, and Author of "Sketches of Upper Canada;" SECOND EDITION; 2 vols post 8vo, 15s. boards.

"In his powers of description Mr Howison is very successful, and his sketches of foreign manners and modes of life convey a vivid idea of their originals."-New Monthly Magazine.

"Mr Howison possesses great powers of description, and many of the scenes he witnessed are painted with vigour and elegance of language.”—Literary Chronicle.

"These sketches combine much amusement and information; evidently written by an eye-witness of each scene's comforts and inconveniences."-Literary Gazette.

"Upon the whole, we have not been better pleased for a long time with two volumes of light reading, than with these Travelling Recreations.'"-Fclectic Review.

"Mr Howison is just the travelling companion we like.”—Literary Magnet.

ALSO, BY THE SAME AUTHOR,

SKETCHES of UPPER CANADA, Domestic, Local, and Characteristic; to which are added, Practical Details for the Information of Emigrants of every Class, and some Recollections of the United States of America; THIRD EDITION; 8vo, 10s. 6d. boards.

"Mr Howison passed two years and a half in Upper Canada; and whatever he communicates is derived from personal inquiry and observation, and is obviously quite candid and impartial, and free from the exaggeration and flattering colouring of the interested land-jobbing speculator.-His descriptions of the wild and picturesque scenery of the wilderness he traversed are given with very considerable spirit and effect."-Edinburgh Review.

XXXIV.

A TREATISE on the LAW of BILLS of EXCHANGE, PROMISSORY NOTES, and LETTERS of CREDIT in SCOTLAND. BY WILLIAM GLEN. SECOND EDITION, Corrected and greatly enlarged; including the most important Decisions in Scotland and England, brought down to the present Period, by A MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE of Justice; 8vo, 14s. boards.

XXXV.

OBSERVATIONS on the STUDY of the CIVIL LAW. By

DAVID IRVING, LL.D.; THIRD EDITION; 8vo, 38.

XXXVI.

LIFE and ADMINISTRATION of CARDINAL WOLSEY. By JOHN GALT, Esq.; THIRD EDITION; post 8vo, with a Portrait, 10s. 6d. boards.

XXXVII.

A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of HIS MAJESTY'S VISIT t› SCOTLAND; a new and improved edition, 8vo, with four large and elegant Plates and two Plais; 8s. 6d. boards.

XXXVIII.

ELEMENTS of MORALITY; for the Use of Young Persons; to which is prefixed, An ADDRESS to PARENTS; from the German of the Rev. C. S. SALZMANN; a new and improved edition, with seven Plates, from designs by CORBOULD; 12mo, 58. boards.

XXXIX.

A CATECHISM of CHEMISTRY; containing a concentrated and simple View of its Elementary Principles; adapted to those commencing the Study of that Science. By JOHN SMITH, M.D.; SECOND EDITION; 18mo, cuts, 2s. 6d., bds. "As an introduction to the systematic works, or to a course of lectures, we consider this Catechism a work of much utility."—New Monthly Magazine.

"A useful little work has just been published, entitled, A Catechism of Chemistry, designed as an introduction to the more general study of one of the most delightful as well as useful of sciences It contains the elements of Chemistry, familiarly explained.”—Monthly Magazine.

"To both descriptions of students this little work may be acceptable.”—Gentleman's Magazine.

XL.

FANNY FAIRFIELD, the Farmer's Daughter; a Juvenile

Tale. By A LADY. Beautifully printed in one vol. 12mo, and embellished with a Frontispiece, designed by UWINS, and engraved by HORSBURGH, 58. boards.

XLI.

OLIVER & BOYD'S NEW TRAVELLING MAP of SCOTLAND, carefully corrected to the present time, and beautifully engraved and coloured; in a Case, or neatly half-bound, forming a small Pocket Volume, 98.

⚫. This Map is constructed on an improved plan, with the distances on the great roads, by which any place or route may be traced with ease by the traveller, either in a carriage or on horseback, without the inconvenience to which he must submit by unfolding Maps on the ordinary construction.

XLII.

OLIVER & BOYD'S NEW TRAVELLING MAP of ENGLAND and WALES, carefully corrected to the present time, and exhibiting the different Counties, Towns, Villages, Stages, Principal and Cross Roads, Hills, Rivers, Canals, &c.— constructed and drawn with the greatest care; by JOHN BELL, Land-Surveyor; in Case, 78. 6d. ; on rollers, 9s.

XLIII.

PRINCIPAL ROADS through SCOTLAND; including the

usual Pleasure Tours, &c.; with a Travelling Map; 1s. 6d. sewed.

XLIV.

PSALM and HYMN TUNES, selected from the most approved Composers, adapted to the various Metres now in use, and arranged for Four Voices, with an organ or Piano-Forte Accompaniment; to which is prefixed, a clear and easy Method of initiating the Scholar in the Rudiments of Music. By ROBERT GALE, Teacher of Music; THIRD EDITION; 3s. sewed.

XLV.

THE IMPROVED PRECEPTOR for the GERMAN FLUTE, wherein the Art of Playing that Instrument is rendered easy to every capacity, and the first Rudiments of Music clearly explained; with the most approved method of fingering the Common and Keyed Flutes. To which are added, Forty Popular Airs in the Progressive Keys, calculated to enable the learner to acquire a thorough knowledge of the German Flute. By H. P. M'LEOD, Professor of Music in Edinburgh; 2s. 6d. sewed.

Beautifully printed, and embellished with Engravings by the first Artists, from original Designs by Uwins, Corbould, Wright, &c.

I.

SPECIMENS of SACRED and SERIOUS POETRY, from CHAUCER to the present Day; including "GRAHAME's Sabbath," and other Poems, and "BLAIR'S Grave." With Biographical Notices and Critical Remarks. By JOHN JOHNSTONE. 5s. 6d. boards.

"This is decidedly, and beyond all reasonable contradiction, the happiest effort of its kind; a work of great taste, varied and extensive information, and withal, untainted in its moral sentiment. Such a book has long been a desideratum in pious and well-educated families, and we confidently hope, that the intelligent and laborious author will meet a rich reward of his highly-acceptable undertaking. He has selected from the writings of about one hundred bards, and the biographical sketches are invaluable."Evangelical Magazine.

"This is a neatly-printed and well-arranged little volume. The selection is very judiciously made.We cordially recommend it to our readers."--Congregational Magazine.

"We cordially recommend it as well calculated to produce and fix the best impressions, and to exalt and ennoble the character and enjoyment of human beings."--Edinburgh Theological Magazine.

"Mr Johnstone has evidently bestowed a praiseworthy diligence on the compilation, and there is every appearance of a wish to be impartial. The biographical notices will be found a pleasing and acceptable feature in the volume."-Eclectic Review.

"By putting together, at a small price, so many examples of sterling poetry, the taste of the times is likely to be corrected, and a feeling for excellence nourished, in the room of a desire for mere novelty."Literary Gazette.

"Mr Johnstone has exercised a judgment impartial and excellent, and has produced a melange which is at once cheap and interesting, giving distinct specimens of the abilities of each of our most ap proved poets-all of them on sacred or serious subjects. The original portion of the work disgraces not that appellation-the biography of Grahame is a fine piece of writing; nor are the critical remarks on the Sabbath unworthy of so fine a poem."-Literary Chronicle.

Mr Johnstone has executed his task in a most judicious manner; and his little compilation, from the lowness of its price, will find its way into the hands of thousands, who might otherwise have remained strangers even to the names of one-half of the poets whose beauties are here served up to them." -Scotsman.

"Mr Johnstone has culled much, with the hand of taste, from many writers who are wholly unknown to the mass of readers, and whom time and change have rendered unfit to be re-published as wholes."-Atlas.

"This very neat little volume has all the merit a compilation of the kind can have-judicious and unhacknied selection."-Monthly Magazine.

Many other of the most reputable Literary Journals of the day have bestowed unqualified approbation on the merits of this work.

II.

THE WORKS of HENRY MACKENZIE, Esq., with a Critical Dissertation on the Tales of the Author. By JOHN GALT, Esq.; 5s. 6d. boards.

"This is a remarkably cheap and elegant reprint of the works of a favourite author, enriched with an able Critical Dissertation, by a gentleman who justly appreciates their merits.-Mr Galt, in his Dissertation, after noticing, in general terms, the productions of this author, gives a brief but well-written critique on each tale."-Literary Chronicle.

III.

POEMS, by WILLIAM COWPER, of the Inner Temple, Esq.; to which is prefixed, a Memoir of the Author; also Critical Remarks on his Poems, written expressly for this Edition. By JOHN M'DIARMID; THIRD EDITION, revised and extended; 5s. boards.

"The kindred warmth with which the biographer enters into all the feelings of his author; the animation of his style, kindling not unfrequently into poetical fervour; and the good sense and acuteness that characterize his observations, cannot fail to render his narrative highly acceptable to the admirers of this amiable and eminent poet.-But it is in his Critical Remarks that the abilities and taste of the editor are chiefly displayed. On this part of his task he enters with all the ardour of a kindred spirit; and, while he estimates the characteristic qualities of Cowper's various works with great acuteness and accuracy of discrimination, he appreciates the efforts, the feelings, the inspirations of the poet, with a truth and fulness of sympathy which a poet only could feel.”—Edinburgh Magazine.

IV.

GOLDSMITH'S VICAR of WAKEFIELD, ESSAYS, and POEMS; with Prefatory Remarks, by JoHN M'DIARMID; 5s. boards.