A DESCRIPTION of the WESTERN ISLANDS of SCOTLAND, including the ISLE of MAN; comprising an Account of their Geological Structure, with Remarks on their Agriculture, Economy, Scenery, and Antiquities. By J. MACCULLOCH, M. D. F. L. S. Two large volumes 8vo, with a volume of Illustrative Engravings, in Quarto. 31. 3s. in boards. This Work contains by far the most accurate and scientific description of this but hitherto little known, though important portion of the British dominions, which has hitherto been presented to the public. The known zeal and abilities of the author, in every thing regarding Natural History, renders his geological description of this singular groupe of islands invaluable to the scientific inquirer; and though a considerable part of the work is necessarily taken up with Mineralogical details, the work is enlivened with many interesting details on the Agriculture, Scenery, and Antiquities of the Hebrides, and well drawn sketches of the manners of their inhabitants. The account of the celebrated island of Staffa, and of a visit to the remote one of St Kilda, will be read with peculiar inteThe volume of Illustrative Engravings which accompanies this work, contains ten well executed Views of sceres in the principal islands, besides numerous sections of the strata, sketches of other interesting objects, and ten coloured Maps. rest. A GEOGRAPHICAL and STATISTICAL DESCRIP. TION of SCOTLAND. By JAMES PLAYFAIR, D. D. Principal of the United College of St Andrews. 2 vols. 8vo. With a Map of Scotland. 11. 4s. boards. The Statistical Account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the Clergymen of the different parishes, forms a body of local history and statistics which has not been equalled in any other country. In the present work, Dr Playfair has availed himself of all the material information contained in that voluminous work, as well as of more recent publications; and has condensed the whole into two volumes of ordinary size and moderate price. A general description of Scotland is followed by a circumstantial detail of every county, and a statistical account of every parish; and the Appendix contains many valuable Tables, and descriptive accounts of the principal routes through the country, which will be found much more accurate than those contained in the unauthenticated compilations generally put into the hands of travellers. MEMOIRS of the Most Renowned JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS of MONTROSE. Translated from the Latin of the Rev. Dr GEORGE WISHART, afterwards Bishop of Edinburgh. To which are added, SUNDRY ORIGINAL LET. TERS AND PAPERS, never before Published. 8vo. With Portrait of Montrose. 12s. boards. The Memoirs of the celebrated Marquis of Montrose, now reprinted, contain a very lively, though not overcharged, account of the state of parties in Scotland, from that nobleman's desertion of the cause of the Covenanters, till his execution in May 1660. The exploits of the Marquis have been brought under the notice of the public in a more attractive form by the author of the "Tales of My Landlord," in the "Legend of Montrose; but it is only in the narrative of a friend and a contem porary that the real merits of this distinguished and romantic soldier can be appreciated. The Appendix to this volume contains sundry valuable historical documents, and some curious original letters, there printed for the first time, from the archives of the family of Seaforth. An INQUIRY into the NATURE and ORIGIN of PUBLIC WEALTH, and into the Means and Causes of its Increase. By the EARL of LAUDERDALE. 2d Edition. 8vo. 12s. boards, The POETICAL DECAMERON; or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry, particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. By J. PAYNE COLLIER, of the Middle Temple. 2 vols. Beautifully printed in post octavo. Price 17. 1s. boards. That brilliant era of English poetry, during which Shakespeare, Spencer, Ben Johnson, and their cotemporaries flourished, is treated, in the present work, in a more popular and easy manner than in most of the publications which have yer appeared on this subject. The scattered notices which have been brought to light in the Censura Literaria, the British Bibliographer, Restituta, and other works of the same kind, are here concentrated in one point of view; together with much new information and many valuable notices, not hitherto generally known. The work resembles in its plan the elegant dialogues of Bishop Hurd on similar subjects. MEMORIALLS; or the Considerable Things that fell out within this Island of Great Britain from 1638 to 1684. By the Rev. Mr ROBERT LAW, edited from the MS. by CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE, Esq 4to. 1. 168. boards. These Memorialls, written by Mr Robert Law, in the full and honest belief of the agency of the Evil One in human affairs, exhibit, among a register of public occurrences, a very curious picture of the manners and popular belief of the country for the period which it embraces. To this work is prefixed an Introduction by the Editor, containing a very amusing account of all the recorded spectral appearances and strange sights, from the earliest periods of Scottish history to the year 1724; and the whole forms a collection of perhaps the most authentic and best selected tales of witchcraft and wizardry which has been yet published. ACCOUNT of the KINGDOM of NEPAL, and of the Territories annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha. By FRANCIS HAMILTON, M. D. 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