BOOKS

PRINTED TOR, AND SOLD BY

Mundell, Doig, & Stevenson, Edinburgh,

And J. Murray, London.

1.

POETICAL TRANSLATIONS, containing Francis' Horace, Garth's Ovid, and Lewis' Statius, elegantly printed on a London type, 1 vol. royal 8vo.-Price 11. 1s. boards.

2.

HOME, a POEM, 1 vol. foolscap 8vo, 2d edit. corrected and enlarged.-Price 6s. boards.

"O quid solutis est beatius curis !
"Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino
"Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum,

"Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto."-CATULL.

"This is a delightful poem, and well deserves our most distinguished commendation. The writer, in spirited and harmonious verses, represents all the various images which the imagination can connect with the subject. Some beautiful episodes are also introduced. It is only necessary to insert the following apostrophe to justify all that has been said. Still happier specimens might have been found; parts of this are requisite. We have not lately met with so agreeable and so interesting a poem."-British Critic, July

1806.

"The versification is indeed uncommonly beautiful, and for the most part is perfectly correct and harmonious. The author's sentiments are very commendable; he seems to entertain much more just ideas of man, and the progress of society, than is usual met with among poets."Literary Journal, June 1806.

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VERSES, SOCIAL and DOMESTIC, by George Hay Drummond, A.M. small 8yo.-Price 7s. boards.

"The highly accomplished and respectable author has with great diffidence entitled his publication Verses: but these verses are derived from a higher lineage than many poems of far prouder boast. They are highly finished miniature representations of domestic life, at various seasons, and deserve to be placed as cabinet pictures in every family apartment.

"We should delight in selecting much from this estimable assemblage of Poetic Graces, did our space allow us the gratification; but we must restrict ourselves to the scanty limits of a sonnetextract, amid many more extended attractions. Yet we ought not to close this brief report, without expressing our cordial conviction, that if suavity of sentiment, or elegance of expression, should allure the reader to peruse these polished strains with the attention which they merit, such a reader must be highly profited, as well as pleased by the employ."-Monthly Mirror for June 1802.

"The Verses display in general a mind of elegant turn, long habituated to the association of poetical images, and sufficiently exercised in the construction of harmonious measure. There are few Poems which we might not produce as specimens, without any injustice to the Author.' - British Critic for August 1802.

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SCOTTISH DESCRIPTIVE POEMS, with some Illustrations of Scottish Literary Antiquities, small 8vo. Price 7s. boards.

This Volume contains,

1. The CLYDE, a Poem, in two parts, by John Wilson, late master of the Grammar School at Greenock; with the Life of the Author, and Notes and Illustrations by the Editor,

II. ALBANIA, a Poem, addressed to the Genius of Scotland, by a Scots Clergyman; with Preliminary Remarks and Additional Notes by the Editor.

III. The DAY ESTIVAL, a Poem, by Alexander Hume; with Preliminary Observations and Notes by the Editor, consisting of Extracts from Bishop Carswell's Foirm na Nurrnuidheadh, or Form of Prayer, 1567, in Gaelic and English, chiefly concerning the Ancient Bards and Poetry of the Scottish Highlanders. IV. POEMS, by William Fowler; with Preliminary Observations by the Editor.

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The POETICAL WORKS of Hector Macniel, Esq. 2 vols. foolscap 8vo, second edition.-12s. boards.

"In these volumes we find several songs in the Scottish manner and dialect, which are in general written with great taste, simplicity, and delicacy. In these compositions Mr. Macniel excels all his predecessors, the Ayrshire ploughman excepted, with whom, nevertheless, he may stand a comparison. In his Epistle to C. L. and in several other poems, our author shews a very happy vein of humour, more correct, and scarcely less poignant, than that of Burns. In his Links o' Forth and his Scottish Muse, he challenges a still more direct comparison with that powerful genius. The quotations we have given, and several of Mr. Macniel's other Poems, particularly his Ode to Grandeur, and his verses on the death of Sir Ralph Abercrombie, shew considerable strength and elevation of fancy. But tenderne s, delicacy, and sensibility, are the most striking characteristics of his muse. He is everywhere true to nature and passion, and touches with a skilful hand the finest chords of the heart. As a moral writer, he is without a stain, uniformly faithful to the cause of innocence and the inte rests of virtue. We should be happy if we could anticipate the vein of posterity, and breathe into the car of the living poet those grateful accents with which future generations will hallow his dust."-Critical Review, March 1802.

"It is with the greatest pleasure, that we have seen, in two octavo volumes, a collection of the Poetical Works of Hector Macniel, Esq.' With several of these poems the public is intimately acquainted. Who has not melted at the pathetic History of Will and Jean,' and the Waes o' War?' The greater number of these elegant effusions are in the Scottish dialogue; they are more classical and correct than those of Burns, and rival the productions of that wonderful genius, in richness of fancy, simplicity, and pathos "Supplement Monthly Magazine, July 1802.

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POEMS and P. AYS, by William Richardson, A. M. Professor of Humanity in the University of Glasgow. Two vols. foolscap 8vo.-Price 10s. 6d.

"There are in these volumes several beautiful descriptions, which carry the reader's imagination directly into enchanting scenes and interesting situations. But in general, the author addresses the powers of sensibility, not by a copious enumeration and detail of circumstances, but by exhibiting to the fancy a few leading points, which, by necessary implication, immediately call into view all.

the minor parts of the subject. He endeavours not so much to tell what nature is, as to awaken those feelings and emotions, which nature, in her fairest forms, is calculated to excite.""Of this necessary information, Professor Richardson appears to be completely master; for in the choice of his embellishments and accessary ideas, together with all the circumstances of time, place, scenery, and versification, he uniformly employs those which are suitable to that state of mind to which his composition is addressed." "In both his plays, Professor Richardson has founded his claims to praise upon intrinsic merit; never having recourse to the hackneyed, but common expedient of inaking up for the want of poetry, by the rapid change of scenery, gorgeous trappings, and the other ingredients of stage effect."

"The poetry of the Professor is, as our readers must have ob served, soft, elegant, and spirited. His sentiments are delicate, and always expressed in appropriate language. His embellishments are rich and varied, selected with the eye of a critic, from the wide range of external nature. There is another praise due to our author, and it is not the meanest commendation that can be conferred upon a modern poet, for having uniformly employed all the inducements of his enchanting art, on the side of virtue." Anti-Jacolin Rev. April, 1808.

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The SELECT WORKS of HENRY FIELDING, Esq. (uniformly printed with, and designed to accompany, Anderson's edition of Smollett's Miscellaneous Works), containing,

Joseph Andrews,

Tom Jones, or the History of a Foundling,
Amelia, and

Jonathan Wild.

The distinguished merit of Fielding has always procured for his works a circulation, fully as general and extensive as the produc tion of any other author in the English language have ever obtained. The most valuable part of his works have, indeed, been so often and so variously printed, that any new edition of them, at present, may appear to be almost unnecessary. But in the numberless editions of his detached works, from the dissimilarity of form, there is now considerable difficulty in finding what is valuable among the literary remains of Fielding, exhibited in a manner at once creditable to his talents, and agreeable, to his admirers.

The success which Dr. Anderson's collection of the Miscellaneous Works of Smollett has met with, has induced the Publishers to offer The Select Works of Fielding, printed in an uniform manner. In making this selection, they have been guided by the public judgment alone. The Dramatic Works of Fielding, which are now almost unknown, they have not attempted to recal from oblivion. Nor have they brought forward such of his performances as, from various causes, could have been interesting only at the period at which they were written. They have, in short, presented to the Public, under the name of Select Works, no more than what have long and universally received the fullest approbation; and these, it may confidently be said, will be transmitted with undiminished admiration to the latest posterity.

For this edition of the Select Works of Fielding, a Life of the Author has now, for the first time, been written,-no Biographer of Fielding having yet appeared, if we except Mr. Murphy, whose Essay on his life and genius was composed for an edition of his works published in 1762, and, as he himself says, was never intended as a performance in which the strict rules of biography were to be observed.

To which is prefixed, a new Life, and highly finished Portrait of the Author, 5 vols. 8vo.-Price 21. 5s. boards.

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MEMOIRS of MARMONTEL, written by himself; including ANECDOTES of the most distinguished literary and political characters who appeared in France during the last century. Translated from the French, with Notes and Illustrations, by the Author of the Swiss Emigrants, 4 vols 12mo.Price 11. 1s. boards.

"This is one of the most interesting productions which has issued from the French press, since the commencement of the Revolution. To a narrative of the private life of an estimable writer, is added a view of the brilliant literary societies of Paris, before the close of the French monarchy, and of the first scenes of that awful tragedy, which Europe still contemplates as it proceeds, with increasing apprehension. The style of the work is also not less attractive than its matter; it is eloquent, flowing, and easily inclines, in pursuing the course of events, either to the ludicrous or the pathetic."-Monthly Review, November 1805.