صور الصفحة
PDF
النشر الإلكتروني

NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of the SKETCH BOOK.

Just Published, in 2 vols. 8vo, 24s.,

A CHRONICLE of the CONQUEST of GRA

NADA, from the MSS. of Fray Antonio Agapida. By WASHINGTON IRVING.

JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street, London.

Published this day, in one vol. royal lômo, 5s.

THE LIFE of ALEXANDER the GREAT, by

the Rev. JOHN WILLIAMS, A.M., Vicar of Lampeter, and Rector of the Edinburgh Academy; forming No. III. of the FAMILY LIBRARY.

JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street, London: Sold also by OLIVER & BOYD, Edinburgh.

Of whom may be had, just published,

Nos. I. and II. of the FAMILY LIBRARY, being the LIFE of BUONAPARTE. 2 vols., 15 Engravings, 10s.

This day is Published,

BY STIRLING & KENNEY, and JOHN FAIRBAIRN, Edinburgh,

CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY. VOLUME XLII.

This day, price 3s. 6d. or Fine Paper, 5s. cloth boards, Illustrated with a beautiful Engraving of the Battle-ground of Killiecrankie, HISTORY

OF

THE REBELLIONS IN SCOTLAND,

UNDER THE VISCOUNT DUNDEE AND THE EARL OF MAR, In 1689 and 1715.

By ROBERT CHAMBERS,

Author of the "History of the Rebellion in 1715," &c. Edinburgh: CONSTABLE & Co. 19, Waterloo Place; and HURST, CHANCE, & Co. London.

This day is published,

In Two Vols. 8vo, price 16s.

THE SCOTTISH TOURIST and ITINERARY; SOLITARY WALKS THROUGH MANY

or, a Guide to the Scenery and Antiquities of Scotland and the Western Islands. With a Description of the Principal Steam-Boat Tours. Second Edition, with considerable Additions and Improvements.-Illustrated by Maps and Views. Price 9s. boards, or 10s. 6d.

bound.

The rapid sale of the first Edition of the Scottish Tourist is a decided proof of the superiority both of its plan and execution over any similar Work. The Second Edition, besides being illustrated by four new Plates, will be found to contain very considerable Additions and Improvements.

"We have no hesitation in praising it, since we happen to know that the most distinguished personage in literature, whom Scotland can or ver could boast of, has deliberately pronounced it to be the best book of its kind that has fallen into his hands. It is chiefly remarkable for skilful condensation of much matter, which has lost none of

its value by undergoing that process-accurate and extensive historical knowledge and elegance and vigour of diction.-The formation of the plan of the work, and its various details, and the preparatory study, must have cost much more labour than the composition itself; for a plan more perfect-embracing such a variety of objects (all that is interesting and curious in Scottish Scenery)—and showing the geographical relations in which these objects, and the roads conducting to them, stand to each other, never came under our observation.' "The value of the whole work is much enhanced by a number of Maps, upon such a truly original and ingenious plan, as do great credit to the inventor.-Each of these is devoted to an entire tour, occupies a page, and consists of three columns, in which are distinctly traced all the places of any note, (mountains, lakes, rivers, towns, villages, villas, &c.) along the route to be pursued, their relative distances, and the roads that diverge from the route."-Caledonian Mercury, 11th May, 1829.

"Those, however, who desire to extend their knowledge of Loch Lomond, I would refer to Stirling and Kenney's Tourist's Guide of 1827-one of the best books of the kind I have met with."-Scotsman, 16th April, 1828.

Also, just Published,

1. A MAP of the PICTURESQUE SCENERY of SCOTLAND. Price 2s. 6d. neatly done up; or coloured, and in a Case, 3s. 6d.

2. A New TRAVELLING MAP of SCOTLAND. Price 2s. 6d. neatly done up; or coloured, and in a Case, 3s. 6d.

On the 1st of June was published, price only 2s. 6d.
PART VII. of

THE EXTRACTOR; or UNIVERSAL REPER

TORIUM of GENERAL LITERATURE and SCIENCE. The present Number, for June, contains:-Burckhardt's Travels in Arabia.-The New Colony on the Swan River.-Travels in Jerusalem.-Steam Navigation.-Beet-Root Sugar.-Public Records.-Journey to Mount Etna.-Falls of Niagara.-Cavalry Tactics.-Coast Lights on a New Principle.-The Cause of the Dry Rot Discovered. -Plan for Rating Chronometers.-Origin, Nature, and Number of Suttees.-Principles of Teaching-Galvanism.-Rice Paper.-Visit to the American President Jackson.-The Court of Napoleon.-Modern Jewish Customs.-Phrenology.-Dr Chalmers.-The Organ of Scent. The Animal Structure.-Convent of St Bernard.-Burning Springs in South America.-Gastronomy.-Opium.-Rules for Connoisseurship in Painting. The First and Last Kiss.-Three Years at Cambridge.-Dogs.-The Waverley Novels.-Anne of Geierstein.Wits and Authors.-The Proverbs of Solomon.-Songs of Burns.The Two Emilies.-Mountain Storms and Slides in America. French

Varieties, &c. &c.

Criminal Trials.-Consumption.-Recollections of a Night Fever.The following, among many other notices, have appeared in favour of this publication.

"This Work is a most valuable compilation to those who live at a distance from large towns, and who may neither have the opportunity, nor the pecuniary means, of becoming acquainted with the floating Literature of the times. It professes to glean and incorporate in its pages the whole of the most instructive and amusing articles contained in the Foreign and Domestic Reviews, Magazines, and Journals -a profession which it fulfils with a degree of fidelity and judgment, that reflects equal credit on the taste and industry of the editor. We know not where we could refer our readers to a more useful or amusing Miscellany."- Oxford Literary Gazette.

** Part I. price 2s. 6d. is again reprinted, and is now ready for delivery.

Published by J. SUTHERLAND, 9, Calton Street, Edinburgh; and at the EXTRACTOR OFFICE, 150, Fleet Street, London; and may be had of all Booksellers.

LANDS; with TALES and LEGENDS.
By DERWENT CONWAY.

SECOND EDITION.

"It is always pleasing, and always interesting."-Athenæum. "The descriptions are diversified and graphic. The tales intro duced interesting and clever, and the author's style sprightly and unaffected."-New Monthly Magazine. "There is about all these stories a freshness, as well as an elegance of manner, which must gratify every reader."-Scotsman. London: HURST, CHANCE & Co. 65, St Paul's Churchyard.

TRAVELLERS IN SCOTLAND.

Published this day, price 15s. bound,

I. THE TRAVELLER'S GUIDE through SCOT LAND, in one thick volume, 12mo. Illastrated with Maps and Views, with an Itinerary on a new plan. The Traveller's Guide contains a general account of Scotland, a description of every County and Parish, laid down agreeably to the Natural Geography of the Country; which, with a Co pious Index, forms a complete Gazetteer of the Kingdom. II. The PLEASURE TOURS in SCOTLAND price 9s. bound. An account of the principal Pleasure Tours Scotland, or a description of the short and long Highland Tours; the Tour up Tweed and down Clydeside; the Long Tour round the eastern coast; besides other excursions usually adopted by the Tour | ists of Pleasure. Illustrated with Maps and Views, with an Itinerary on a new plan.

The rapid sale of four editions is a strong mark of public appro bation to this Tourist's Guide. The numerous Maps, Views, &c. with the Itinerary, have given the book a favourable re ception.

III. A TRAVELLING MAP of SCOTLAND, Two Sheets, mounted for the pocket, price 9s.

IV. A TRAVELLING MAP of SCOTLAND, One Sheet, mounted for the pocket, price 6s.

V. A TRAVELLING MAP of ENGLAND, Two Sheets, mounted for the pocket, price 9s.

VI. A TRAVELLING MAP of ENGLAND, One Sheet, mounted for the pocket, price 5s. Published by JOHN THOMSON, 32, St Andrew Square; and sold by all Booksellers.

[blocks in formation]
[ocr errors]

[No. 33. June 27, 1829.]

ADVERTISEMENTS,

Connected with Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Published this day,

LOTHIAN'S PLAN of EDINBURGH and

LEITH. NEW EDITION, with accurate Delineations of the New and Intended Improvements, including the Piers at Leith; as also a condensed List of the Curious Antiquities about Town, with references to their position.-6s. in bds. plain.-8s. in bds. coloured. -14s. on cloth in case, or on rollers.-21s. framed.

Copies of this Plan were deposited in the foundations of the two New Bridges presently in progress. Much time and labour have been spent to render it minutely accurate and interesting. The Map of the Environs eight miles round Edinburgh, and that of the Basin of the Forth, and line of the Canal to Glasgow, (all of which are given on the Plan,) will be found very useful.

The above PLAN of EDINBURGH, (without Leith and the Basin of the Forth,) 3s. 6d. in bds. plain.-5s. in bds. coloured.-88. 6d. on cloth in case, or on rollers.

PLAN of LEITH, with the New Piers, Basin of the Forth, and line of the Canal to Glasgow.-3s. 6d. in bds. plain.-4s 6d. in bds. coloured.-7s. in case, or on rollers.

The following neatly done up on cloth,

LOTHIAN'S COUNTY MAPS of SCOTLAND, 2s. each County; with the exception of Perthshire, Inverness-shire, Argyllshire and Western Islands, which are 3s. 6d. each.

TRAVELLING MAP of SCOTLAND, 2s. 6d.
TRAVELLING MAP of ENGLAND, 28. 6d.
TRAVELLING MAP of IRELAND, 2s. 6d.

LOTHIAN'S SMALL BIBLE ATLAS, (8 maps,) neatly half-bound, 4s.; or in sheets, for insertion in pocket-bibles, ös. 6d. LOTHIAN'S GLOBES, (9 inches diameter,) L.3, 10%. per pair.

SLATE GLOBE, marked with Lines of Latitude and Longitude, for Teaching young persons Geography. Neatly mounted, L.1, 1s.

CHECK-BOOKS for every Bank in Edinburgh and Leith, uniformly engraved, 5s.

USEFUL AND INFORMING BOOKS. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY of the SCOTTISH REFORMERS, 5 vols. 18mo, 18s. cloth.

LIFE and OPINIONS of the Celebrated GEORGE BUCHANAN. By the Author of the Life of George Wishart, &c. 18mo, 3s. 6d. cloth.

LIFE of PATRICK HAMILTON, the first distinguished Martyr for the Reformation in Scotland. By the same Author, 18mo, 3s. 6d. cloth.

LIFE of GEORGE WISHART, the most distinguished Martyr for the Reformation in Scotland. 18mo, 3s. 6d. cloth. LIVES of WALLACE and MILL, the last Martyrs for the Reformation in Scotland. By the same Author, 18mo, 3s. 6d. cloth.

LIFE and TIMES of the Celebrated REGENT MORAY, with an account of the Insurrection of the Lords of the Congregation. By the same Author, 18mo, 4s. cloth.

By

DIRECTIONS for SEARCHING the SCRIP. TURES; including Observations on each of the Sacred Books. the Rev. JOSEPH GIBB. In one thick vol. 18mo, 4s. 6d. cloth. POLLOK'S ANONYMOUS WORKS.

[blocks in formation]

THOMSON'S LETTER to DR CHALMERS, on the expediency of establishing FRIENDLY SOCIETIES, in connection with Congregations, 1s. 6d.

FINE ARTS, &c.

EWBANK'S VIEW of EDINBURGH from the CASTLE, (19 inches by 13 and a half,) 18s.

EWBANK'S VIEW of EDINBURGH from the CALTON HILL, (same size,) 188.

The ORIGINAL DRAWINGS of these two Views, highly finished by Mr Ewbank, are for sale; price L.15, 158. each, framed in rosewood. Size of each, including frame, 3 feet 10 inches by 23 Edited by

inches.

EDINBURGH MUSICAL ALBUM. GEORGE LINLEY, Esq. with Portrait of Miss E. Paton, 15s. PORTRAIT of MISS E. PATON, 11 inches by 8, 5s. ; India proofs, 7s. 6d. This is engraved in the finest style, by the same artist who did the beautiful one of Queen Mary in Constable's Miscellany.

Published by JOHN LOTHIAN, 41, St Andrew Square;
Of whom may be had,

MARTIN'S splendid Print of the "PAPHIAN BOW ER;" 26 inches by 19, £1, 1s.

TURNER'S Print of "The PUGILISTS;" 144 inches by 13, 10s. 6d.

EGERTON'S Print of "WILL O' THE WISP ;" 17 inches by 14, 10s. 6d.

PHILLIP'S Print of the "SPOILED CHILD;" 23 inches by 19, 15s.

Portrait of MISS LOVE; 14 inches by 10, 6s. Equestrian Portrait of GEORGE IV., curiously wrought, and exhibiting a fine specimen of Penmanship, by an Italian; 27 inches by 23, £1, 1s.

CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY.
VOLUME XLII.

This day is published, price 3s. 6d. or Fine Paper, 5s.
cloth boards,

Illustrated with a beautiful Engraving of the
Battle-ground of Killiecrankie,

HISTORY

OF

THE REBELLIONS IN SCOTLAND, UNDER THE VISCOUNT DUNDEE AND THE EARL OF MAR, In 1689 and 1715.

By ROBERT CHAMBERS,

Author of the "History of the Rebellion in 1745," &c. Edinburgh: CONSTABLE & Co. 19, Waterloo Place; and HURST, CHANCE, & Co. London.

TRAVELLERS IN SCOTLAND.

Published this day, price 15s. bound,

I. THE TRAVELLER'S GUIDE through SCOTLAND, in one thick volume, 12mo. Illustrated with Maps and Views, with an Itinerary on a new plan. The Traveller's Guide contains a general account of Scotland, a description of every County and Parish, laid down agreeably to the Natural Geography of the Country; which, with a Copious Iudex, forms a complete Gazetteer of the Kingdom. II. The PLEASURE TOURS in SCOTLAND, price 9s. bound. An account of the principal Pleasure Tours in Scotland, or a description of the short and long Highland Tours; the Tour up Tweed and down Clydeside; the Long Tour round the eastern coast; besides other excursions usually adopted by the Tourists of Pleasure. Illustrated with Maps and Views, with an Itinerary on a new plan.

The rapid sale of four editions is a strong mark of public approbation to this Tourist's Guide. The numerous Maps, Views, &c. with the Itinerary, have given the book a favourable reception.

III. A TRAVELLING MAP of SCOTLAND, Two Sheets, mounted for the pocket, price 9s.

IV. A TRAVELLING MAP of SCOTLAND, One Sheet, mounted for the pocket, price 68.

V. A TRAVELLING MAP of ENGLAND, Two Sheets, mounted for the pocket, price 9s.

VI. A TRAVELLING MAP of ENGLAND, One Sheet, mounted for the pocket, price 5s. Published by JOHN THOMSON, 32, St Andrew Square; and sold by all Booksellers.

SEAT OF THE WARS.

Just published, price 6s.

A MAP of the THEATRE of WAR between the RUSSIANS and TURKS on the DANUBE. As also, ANCIENT and MODERN GREECE. In which will be found the places daily mentioned in the papers as taken or retaken. The course of the river Danube is laid down from Vienna to its entrance into t

Black Sea.

Published by JOHN THOMSON, 32, St Andrew Square.

[blocks in formation]

Edinburgh: CONSTABLE & Co. 19, Waterloo Place; and HURST, CHANCE, & Co. London.

"An unobtrusive pensiveness, an ardent patriotism, and a sincere attachment to all the works of nature, characterise these Sketches,' in which there is not a thought that could offend the most fastidious. They are full of gentle feelings, lively pastoral descriptions, and agreeable and animated pictures of Scottish character."-Edinburgh Literary Journal.

"The characteristic tone of the whole volume is gentle beauty. It has not been the author's ambition to develope the wilder passions of the human heart, but to produce a few faithful pictures of the homely virtues and common vicissitudes of pastoral life. He has studied his subject deeply, and these Sketches have not been submitted to publie scrutiny without much forethought, and numerous retouches. They have been polished with great care, and we apprehend that this very polish will render them more popular in the drawing-room, than at the farmer's ingle. On the whole, we regard them as very creditable efforts in the department of literature to which they appertain, and lay aside the volume with a conscientious persuasion, that

they are the emanations of a mind of whose compass they furnish but a very inadequate indication."-Edinburgh Observer.

"There is a flow of rich and varied imagery; there is a deep sense of the gentler and more amiable feelings of our nature; there is, above all, a tone of unpretending morality, and of quiet piety, in the whole work, that steals noiselessly into the heart."-Caledonian Mercury.

"His poetry displays right feeling, correct principle, and pure and undefiled religion."-Edinburgh Evening Post.

"It is a mirror of much of what is most beautiful in primitive Scottish character; and while it thus brings back upon the heart, in all their original freshness and power, many of those scenes and enjoyments which constituted the witchery and romance of early years, it gratifies also refined literary taste, by the polished purity of its language, and the chasteness of its sentiments and imagery. They contain many fine touches of real nature, many happy thoughts and beautiful images, and many lively and striking pictures of that happy, that virtuous and lofty-minded class. that once formed the strength and pride of Scotland."-Glasgow Free Press.

"Its conception is exceedingly happy, and, in one sense, new. His genius is essentially lyrical; and the proof of this is as much in his selecting songs for his subject, as in his having composed so many excellent ones himself. His songs are all good, and only want a little careful, but scarcely perceptible, finish, to be as excellent as they are numerous. We prophesy that many of them will find their way into collections of our national melodies."-Glasgow Scots Times.

"We have no hesitation in warmly recommending the volume to our readers, as conta ning a great deal of sweet and beautiful poetry, and the germ of something greater, which, we trust, we shall see soon from the author. A work which will equally furnish pleasure in the drawing-room of the rich, and the cottage of the peasant."-Dumfris Courier.

"His imagery is delightfully varied and striking, and one feeling of serene piety and genuine morality pervades every page."-Dumfries

Journal.

"It possesses the sterling merits of the peasantry, whose character the Sketches are intended to illustrate, without their rough and unpromising exterior."-Perth Courier.

"It is full of genuine nationality, unaffected simplicity, and good poetry."-Dundee Courier.

On 1st July will be published,

THE SCOTTISH SONGS.

In Two Volumes.

In One Volume

Royal 18mo, price 12s.; and The SCOTTISH BALLADS. royal 18mo, 6s.; collected and illustrated by ROBERT CHAMBERS, Author of "Traditions of Edinburgh," 2 vols. 12s. "The Picture of Scotland," 2 vols. post 8vo, with eight fine plates, L.1, 15. &c. &c.

Printed for WILLIAM TAIT, 78, Princes Street.
Of whom may be had,

TYTLER'S HISTORY of SCOTLAND, vols. I. and II. 8vo, each 12s.-Vol. III. in November.

PITCAIRN'S CRIMINAL TRIALS, part I. 4to, 15s.-Part II. will be ready early next month.

XXI. will be ready on 1st July.
WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XX. 6s.-No.

ARMSTRONG'S GAELIC DICTIONARY, 4to, (original price £3, 133. 6d.) £1, 58.

NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of the SKETCH BOOK.
Just Published, in 2 vols. 8vo, 24s.,

A CHRONICLE of the CONQUEST of GRA

INGTON IRVING.
NADA, from the MSS. of Fray Antonio Agapida. By WASH-
JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street, London.

SODA WATER.

SODA WATER, of superior quality, is Manufactured by means of Apparatus of an improved construction, be BUTLER & Co. Chemists to his Majesty for Scotland, No. 73, Princes Street, (opposite the Earthen Mound,) Edinburgh; who will forward it, in quantities of a dozen bottles, or more, to any part of the King dom, upon receiving an order for the payment in Edinburgh. Ho Keepers, Druggists, Confectioners, and others, supplied upon wholesale terms.

Empty Bottles and Packages will be allowed for at the Prices charged, when received back, free of expense.

Manufactory, 23, Waterloo Place.

Edinburgh, 25d June, 1859.

MR BUCKINGHAM'S LECTURES, or Extem-
pore Descriptions of the several Countries of the EASTERN
WORLD, will be delivered at the HOPETOUN ROOMS, Queen Street,
beginning on Monday the 6th of July, and continuing daily until
Monday the 13th of July, according to the following order of dates:
Egypt, and its splendid Antiquities,
Arabia, and its Desert Tribes,
Palestine, and its Holy Places,
Mesopotamia, and its Ruined Cities,
Persia, and its Picturesque Beauties,
India, its Institutions and Inhabitants,
Commerce and Resources of the East,
Each Lecture will commence at half-past seven o'clock in the ever-
ing precisely.

[ocr errors]

July 6th.

[ocr errors]

July 7th.

July 8th.

July 9th.

[ocr errors]

July 10th

July 11th

July 13th.

Single Admission, 3s. 6d.; Ticket for the whole Course of Seven Lectures, One Guinea; to be had of the principal Booksellers, and at the place of delivery.

In order to facilitate the attendance of young Gentlemen who are still pursuing their studies, as well as of young Ladies whose education is still in progress, to each of whom the descriptions of the countries may be found instructive as well as entertaining, two Tickets for the Course will admit three young Gentlemen, or four young Ladies under eighteen years of age; and three Tickets for the Course will admit a family party of six.

A Pamphlet, containing the Heads of the Lectures, price 1s. may be had as above; and it is strongly recommended for previous per usal.

THE TEETH.

"The pictures of rustic manners are given with a delicacy, and yet with a truth, which render them doubly pleasing. Even in describing the most familiar scenes, where a poet of ordinary powers, in atteinpting to be faithful, would have certainly fallen into vulgar. ity, this writer displays a tact of selection, and an elegance in his MRT. D. KIDD, DENTIST, lately with J. Pa

[blocks in formation]

"The choice of a subject seems to us very happy and judicious, as one which both well deserves and affords ample materials for a poetical record. This record, we think, Mr Hetherington has given in a highly poetical spirit, with much fine fancy, elegant taste, and moral sentiment. In almost all the characteristic excellencies of that more

tranquil style to which these Sketches belong-that of pastoral poetry -they are more than ordinarily eminent. These Sketches, in many parts, very happily exemplify all that strong good sense, profound, though regulated feeling, and sly archness of humour, which used to be such characteristic traits of the Scottish peasantry. We cannot conclude without taking notice of the singular merit of the songs scattered through the volume, all of which display powers of sentiment, fancy, and versification, certainly not inferior to those exhibited by any living author who has attempted this most difficult and delightful species of poetry."-Edinburgh Weekly Journal.

TERSON CLARK, A.M., London, respectfully intimates, that under Mr Clark's system, he continues to cure Toothache, and Carious Teeth, without pain or extraction, principally by the appliestion of an Anodyne Cement, which not only gives immediate rehef to the most acute suffering, deadens all sensibility in the tenderest teeth, but prevents a recurrence of the disease; and, if subsequently stopped with gold, are permanently as useful as if they had never been decayed.

It may be unnecessary to state, that Mr Clark's system is that upon which all others have founded their pretensions of success; yet Mr Kidd confidently asserts, that the true principles of the system are alone known to the inventor and himself.

Deficiencies of the teeth supplied on Mr Clark's improved method. 24, Queen Street, June 26th, 1829.

Edinburgh: Published for the Proprietors, every Saturday Morning, by CONSTABLE & CO. 19, WATERLOO PLACE; Sold also by ROBERTSON & ATKINSON, Glasgow; W. CERRY, jun. & Co., Dublin; HURST, CHANCE, & Co. London; and by all Newsmen, Postmasters, and Clerks of the Road, throughout the United Kingdom.

Price 6d. or Stamped, and sent free by past, 10d. Printed by BALLANTYNE & Co. Paul's Work, Canongate.

1

[ocr errors][merged small]

[No. 34. July 4, 1829.]

ADVERTISEMENTS,

Connected with Literature, Science, and the Arts.

On 1st July was published,

THE SCOTTISH SONGS.

In Two Volumes,

In One Volume,

royal 18mo, price 12s.; and The SCOTTISH BALLADS. royal 18mo, 6s.; collected and illustrated by ROBERT CHAMBERS,

Author of "Traditions of Edinburgh." 2 vols. 12s. "The Picture of Scotland," 2 vols. post 8vo, with eight fine plates, L.1, 1s. &c. &c.

Printed for WILLIAM TAIT, 78, Princes Street. Of whom may be had, TYTLER'S HISTORY of SCOTLAND, vols. I. and II. 8vo, each 12s.-Vol. III. in November.

PITCAIRN'S CRIMINAL TRIALS, part I. 4to, 15s.-Part II. will be ready early next month.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XX. 6s.-No. XXI. will be ready on 1st July.

This day is published,

Beautifully printed by Ballantyne, price 7s. 6d. extra boards,

TWELVE

DRAMATIC SKETCHES,

FOUNDED ON THE

PASTORAL POETRY OF SCOTLAND. Br W. M. HETHERINGTON, A.M. "Methinks it were a happy life

To be no better than a homely swain !"

SHAKSPEARE.

Edinburgh: CONSTABLE & Co. 19, Waterloo Place; and HURST, CHANCE, & Co. London.

"An unobtrusive pensiveness, an ardent patriotism, and a sincere attachment to all the works of nature, characterise these Sketches,' in which there is not a thought that could offend the most fastidious.

They are full of gentle feelings, lively pastoral descriptions, and agreeable and animated pictures of Scottish character."-Edinburgh Literary Journal.

ARMSTRONG'S GAELIC DICTIONARY, 4to, the human heart, but to produce a few faithful pictures of the homely (original price £3, 133. 6d.) £1, 56.

[blocks in formation]

The rapid sale of the first Edition of the Scottish Tourist is a decided proof of the superiority both of its plan and execution over any smilar Work. The Second Edition, besides being illustrated by four new Plates, will be found to contain very considerable Additions and Improvements.

"We have no hesitation in praising it, since we happen to know that the most distinguished personage in literature, whom Scotland can or ever could boast of, has deliberately pronounced it to be the best book of its kind that has fallen into his hands. It is chiefly remarkable for skilful condensation of much matter, which has lost none of fits value by undergoing that process-accurate and extensive historical knowledge, and elegance and vigour of diction. The formation of the plan of the work, and its various details, and the preparatory study, must have cost much more labour than the composition itself; for a plan more perfect-embracing such a variety of objects (all that is interesting and eurious in Scottish Scenery)-and showing the geographical relations in which these objects, and the roads conducting to them, stand to each other, never came under our observation.""The value of the whole work is much enhanced by a number of Maps, upon such a truly original and ingenious plan, as to do great credit to the inventor.-Each of these is devoted to an entire tour, occupies a page, and consists of three columns, in which are distinctly traced all the places of any note, (mountains, lakes, rivers, towns, villages, villas, &c.,) along the route to be pursued, their relative distances, and the roads that diverge from the route.”—Caledonian Mercury, 11th May, 1829.

Those, however, who desire to extend their knowledge of Loch Lomond, I would refer to Stirling and Kenney's Tourist's Guide of 1827-one of the best books of the kind I have met with."-Scotsman, 16th April, 1828.

Also, just Published,

1. A MAP of the PICTURESQUE SCENERY of SCOTLAND. Price 2s. 6d. neatly done up; or coloured, and in a Case, 3s. 6d.

2. A New TRAVELLING MAP of SCOTLAND. Price 2s. 6d. neatly done up; or coloured, andțin a Case, 3s. 6d. Edinburgh, 2d July, 1829.

MR BUCKINGHAM'S LECTURES, or Extem

pore Descriptions of the several Countries of the EASTERN WORLD, will be delivered at the HOPETOUN ROOMS, Queen Street, beginning on Monday the 13th of July, and continuing daily until Monday the 20th of July, according to the following order of dates: Egypt, and its splendid Antiquities, Arabia, and its Desert Tribes, Palestine, and its Holy Places, Mesopotamia, and its Ruined Cities,

Persia, and its Picturesque Beauties,

India, its Institutions and Inhabitants, Commerce and Resources of the East,

[ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small]

Each Lecture will commence at half-past seven o'clock in the evening precisely.

Single Admission, 3s. 6d.; Ticket for the whole Course of Seven Lectures, One Guinea; to be had of the principal Booksellers, and at the place of delivery.

"The characteristic tone of the whole volume is gentle beauty. It has not been the author's ambition to develope the wilder passions of virtues and common vicissitudes of pastoral life. He has studied his subject deeply, and these Sketches have not been submitted to public scrutiny without much forethought, and numerous retouches. They have been polished with great care, and we apprehend that this very polish will render them more popular in the drawing-room, than at the farmer's ingle. On the whole, we regard them as very creditable efforts in the department of literature to which they appertain, and lay aside the volume with a conscientious persuasion, that they are the emanations of a mind of whose compass they furnish but a very inadequate indication."-Edinburgh Observer.

"There is a flow of rich and varied imagery; there is a deep sense of the gentler and more amiable feelings of our nature; there is, above all, a tone of unpretending morality, and of quiet piety, in the whole work, that steals noiselessly into the heart."-Caledonian Mercury.

"His poetry displays right feeling, correct principle, and pure and undefiled religion."-Edinburgh Evening Post.

"It is a mirror of much of what is most beautiful in primitive Scottish character; and while it thus brings back upon the heart, in all their original freshness and power, many of those scenes and enjoyments which constituted the witchery and romance of early years, it gratifies also refined literary taste, by the polished purity of its language, and the chasteness of its sentiments and imagery. They contain many fine touches of real nature, many happy thoughts and beautiful images, and many lively and striking pictures of that happy, that virtuous and lofty-minded class, that once formed the strength and pride of Scotland."-Glasgow Free Press.

"Its conception is exceedingly happy, and, in one sense, new. His genius is essentially lyrical; and the proof of this is as much in his selecting songs for his subject, as in his having composed so many excellent ones himself. His songs are all good, and only want a little careful, but scarcely perceptible, finish, to be as excellent as they are numerous. We prophesy that many of them will find their way into collections of our national melodies."-Glasgow Scots Times.

"We have no hesitation in warmly recommending the volume to our readers, as containing a great deal of sweet and beautiful poetry, and the germ of something greater, which, we trust, we shall see soon from the author. A work which will equally furnish pleasure in the drawing-room of the rich, and the cottage of the peasant."-Dumfries Courier.

"His imagery is delightfully varied and striking, and one feeling of serene piety and genuine morality pervades every page."-Dumfries Journal.

"It possesses the sterling merits of the peasantry, whose character the Sketches are intended to illustrate, without their rough and unpromising exterior."-Perth Courier.

"It is full of genuine nationality, unaffected simplicity, and good poetry."-Dundee Courier.

"The pictures of rustic manners are given with a delicacy, and yet with a truth, which render them doubly pleasing. Even in de

scribing the most familiar scenes, where a poet of ordinary powers,

in attempting to be faithful, would have certainly fallen into vulgarity, this writer displays a tact of selection, and an elegance in his language, which, while it retains the whole vivacity of real life, has all the interesting romance of mere imagination."-Fife Herald.

"His descriptions of our Scottish hills and dales, woods and vales, mountains and glens, rivers and lakes, as well as of the unadorned manners of our peasantry, are oftentimes vivid, characteristic, interesting,-displaying poetic genius of no common order."-Elgin Courier.

"There is much of the genuine spirit of poesy in the volume, and much that is excellent in description, taste, and dialogue."-Inverness Courier.

The choice of a subject seems to us very happy and judicious, as one which both well deserves and affords ample materials for a poetihighly poetical spirit, with much fine fancy, elegant taste, and moral cal record. This record, we think, Mr Hetherington has given in a

sentiment. In almost all the characteristic excellencies of that more tranquil style to which these Sketches belong-that of pastoral poetry

In order to facilitate the attendance of young Gentlemen who are still pursuing their studies, as well as of young Ladies whose education-they are more than ordinarily eminent. These Sketches, in many is still in progress, to each of whom the descriptions of the countries named may be found instructive as well as entertaining, two Tickets for the Course will admit three young Gentlemen, or four young Ladies under eighteen years of age; and three Tickets for the Course will admit a family party of six.

[merged small][ocr errors][merged small]

Published this day,

By J. LOTHIAN, 41, ST ANDREW SQUARE.

FINE ARTS, &c.

EWBANK'S VIEW of EDINBURGH from the

LOTHIAN'S PLAN of EDINBURGH and CASTLE, (19 inches by 13 and a half,) 18s.

LEITH. NEW EDITION, with accurate Delineations of the New and Intended Improvements, including the Piers at Leith; as also a condensed List of the Curious Antiquities about Town, with references to their position.-6s. in bds. plain.-8s. in bds. coloured.

-14s. in case, or on rollers.-21s. framed.

Copies of this Plan were deposited in the foundations of the two New Bridges presently in progress. Much time and labour have been spent to render it minutely accurate and interesting. The Map of the Environs eight miles round Edinburgh, and that of the Basin of the Forth, and line of the Canal to Glasgow, (all of which are given on the Plan,) will be found very useful.

The above PLAN of EDINBURGH, (without Leith and the Basin of the Forth,) 3s. 6d. in bds. plain.-5s. in bds. coloured.-8s. 6d. in case, or on rollers.

PLAN of LEITH, with the New Piers, Basin of the Forth, and line of the Canal to Glasgow.-3s. 6d. in bds. plain.-4s. 6d. in bds. coloured.-7s. in case, or on rollers.

The following neatly done up on cloth, for the pocket, LOTHIAN'S COUNTY MAPS o' SCOTLAND, 2s. each County;-Perthshire, Inverness-shire, Argyllshire, and Western Islands, are 3s. 6d. each.

EWBANK'S VIEW of EDINBURGH from the
CALTON HILL, (same size,) 188.

Size, including frame, 3 feet 10 inches by 23 inches.
The ORIGINALS of these two Views are for sale, L.15, 15s each.

Edited by

EDINBURGH MUSICAL ALBUM.
GEORGE LINLEY, Esq. with Portrait of Miss E. Paton, 15s.
PORTRAIT of MISS E. PATON, 11 inches by 8,
5s. ; India proofs, 7s. 6d. This is engraved in the finest style, by the
same artist who did the beautiful one of Queen Mary in Constable's
Miscellany.

Published by JOHN LOTHIAN, 41, St Andrew Square;
Of whom may be had,

MARTIN'S splendid Print of the "PAPHIAN
BOWER;" 26 inches by 19, £1, 1s.

TURNER'S Print of "The PUGILISTS;" 144 inches by 13, 10s. 6d.

EGERTON'S Print of "WILL O' THE WISP," 17 inches by 14, 10s. 6d.

PHILLIP'S Print of the " SPOILED CHILD;"

MAP OF THE SEAT OF THE TURKISH WAR, inches by 19, 15s. 2s. 6d. (In a few days.)

TRAVELLING MAP of SCOTLAND, 2s. 6d.
TRAVELLING MAP of ENGLAND, 2s. 6d.
TRAVELLING MAP of IRELAND, 23. 6d.

LOTHIAN'S SMALL BIBLE ATLAS, (8 maps.) half-bound, 4s.; or in sheets, for insertion in pocket-bibles, 3s. 6d.

Portrait of MISS LOVE; 14 inches by 10, 6s. Equestrian Portrait of GEORGE IV., curiously wrought, and exhibiting a fine specimen of Penmanship, by an Italian; 27 inches by 23, £1, 1s.

CROSS'S MAPS OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND AND NEW SOUTH WALES. 10s. 6d. each (published at 31s. 6d)

[blocks in formation]

THE TEETH.

T. D. KIDD, DENTIST, lately with J. Pa

TERSON CLARK, A.M., London, respectfully intimates, that under Mr Clark's system, he continues to cure Toothache, and Ca

SLATE GLOBE, with Lines of Latitude and Longi-rious

tude, for Teaching Geography, L.1, 1s.

Teeth, without pain or extraction, principally by the applies

CHECK BOOKS for every Bank in Edinburgh and to the most acute suffering, deadens all sensibility in the tenderest Leith, uniformly engraved, 5s.

PAMPHLETS ON THE ORGAN QUESTION. ORGANS and PRESBYTERIANS; being a few Observations intended for the particular benefit of the Anti-Organists; with Strictures on some of their recent Meetings in Edinburgh. By Clericus. 1s.

AN APOLOGY for the ORGAN, as an assistant of Congregational Psalmody. By WILLIAM ANDERSON, Minister of the Gospel, Glasgow, 1s.

REPLY to " An APOLOGY for the ORGAN" with some additional Observations respecting the use of Instrumental Music in Churches. By an ANTI-ORGANIST, 1s.

THOMSON'S LETTER to DR CHALMERS, on the expediency of establishing FRIENDLY SOCIETIES, in connection with Congregations, 1s. 6d.

EDINBURGH THEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE.
No. XLIII. Price 1s. Published on the 1st of every month.
USEFUL AND INFORMING BOOKS.
Uniform with "Constable's Miscellany."
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY of the SCOTTISH
REFORMERS, 5 vols. 18mo, 18s. cloth.

LIFE and OPINIONS of the Celebrated GEORGE
BUCHANAN. 18mo, 3s. 6d. cloth.

LIFE of PATRICK HAMILTON, the first distinguished Martyr for the Reformation in Scotland. 18mo, 3s. 6d. cloth.

LIFE of GEORGE WISHART, the most distinguished Martyr for the Reformation in Scotland. 18mo, 3s. 6d. cloth. LIVES of WALLACE and MILL, the last Martyrs for the Reformation in Scotland. 18mo, 3s. 6d. cloth.

tion of an Anodyne Cement, which not only gives immediate rebef teeth, but prevents a recurrence of the disease; and, if subsequently stopped with gold, are permanently as useful as if they had never been decayed.

It may be unnecessary to state, that Mr Clark's system is that upan Kidd confidently asserts, that the true principles of the system are which all others have founded their pretensions of success; yet Mr alone known to the inventor and himself.

Deficiencies of the teeth supplied on Mr Clark's improved method. 24, Queen Street, June 26th, 1829.

TO THE DYSPEPTIC,

THE STUDIOUS, AND SEDENTARY.

BUTLER'S COOLING APERIENT POW-
DERS,-produce an extremely refreshing Effervescing Drink,
preferable to Soda, Seidlitz, or Magnesia Water, and at the sam
time A MILD AND COOLING APERIENT, peculiarly adapted to promote
the healthy action of the Stomach and Bowels, and thereby prevent
the recurrence of Constipation and Indigestion, with all their train
of consequences, as Depression, Flatulence, Acidity or Heartburn,
Headache, Febrile Symptoms. Eruptions on the Skin, &c. &c. and
by frequent use will obviate the necessity of having recourse to Ca-
lomel, Epsom Salts, and other violent medicines, which tend to de-
bilitate the system. When taken after too free an indulgence in the
luxuries of the table, particularly after too much wine, the usual
disagreeable effects are altogether avoided. In warm climates they
Bile, and do not debilitate.
will be found extremely beneficial, as they prevent accumulation of

Prepared, and sold in 2s. 9d. boxes, and 10s. 6d. and 20s. cases, by BUTLER, CHEMIST TO HIS MAJESTY, No. 73, PRINCE'S STREKT, EDINBURGH; and (authenticated by the Preparer's name and address, in the Label affixed to each box and case,) may be obtained of all the principal Druggists and Booksellers throughout the Uni ted Kingdom.

Of whom may also be procured,

BUTLER'S CARBONATED EFFERVES CING HARROWGATE SALTS,-which contain all the solid inimportant addition of the Volatile Gases in an imme tiate state of gredients of the celebrated Springs of Harrowgate, with the very disengagement, by the addition of pure water, and altogether will be found a valuable substitute, proper for those Invalids who are upis very successfully used in cases of Scurvy, Scrofula, and Bious able to reside at Harrowgate. The Water of the Harrowgate Springs and Gouty Affections; and it has, in particular, acquired great cele DIRECTIONS for SEARCHING the SCRIP-brity for the removal of the most complicated and obstinate Cutane TURES; including Observations on each of the Sacred Books. By ous Eruptions. The Salts are sold in 4s. 6d. and 10s. 6d. Bottles. he Rev. JOSEPH GIBB. In one thick vol. 18mo, 4s. 6d. cloth.

LIFE and TIMES of the Celebrated REGENT MORAY, with an account of the Insurrection of the Lords of the Congregation. 18mo, 4s. cloth.

POLLOK'S ANONYMOUS WORKS.

[blocks in formation]

Edinburgh: Published for the Proprietors, every Saturday Morning,
by CONSTABLE & CO. 19, WATERLOO PLACE;
Sold also by ROBERTSON & ATKINSON, Glasgow: W. CURRY,
jun. & Co., Dublin; HURST, CHANCE, & Co. London; and by
all Newsmen, Postmasters, and Clerks of the Road, throughout
the United Kingdom.

Price 6d. or Stamped, and sent free by post, 10d.

Printed by BALLANTYNE & Co, Paul's Work, Canongate,

« السابقةمتابعة »