The whole get-up of this handsome and superb edition reflects the highest credit upon the spirited and enterprising publisher.-Scotsman.

AN

ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY

OF

THE SCOTTISH LANGUAGE:

BY JOHN JAMIESON, D.D.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland.

A NEW EDITION,

CAREFULLY REVISED AND COLLATED, WITH THE ENTIRE SUPPLEMENT INCORPORATED.

BY

JOHN LONGMUIR, A.M., LL.D., AND D. DONALDSON, F.E.I.S.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

Ir is just seventy years since the first edition of JAMIESON'S SCOTTISH DICTIONARY was published in Edinburgh. Twenty years previously, a learned Icelander, Grim Thorkelin, Professor of Antiquities at Copenhagen, who, during a visit to Scotland, recognised in colloquial conversation many purely Gothic terms, had urged JAMIESON, then a nonconformist minister at Forfar, to note down remarkable and uncouth words. The task proved a thoroughly congenial one. It was undertaken by the right man and at the right time; the notes grew into the work which it is now proposed to re-issue, and the publication proved a marvellous success. Dr. JAMIESON'S Dictionary has had neither rival nor successor. He accomplished his undertaking so thoroughly and so well that the work may be said to have furnished the basis and the substance of every extant Scottish Dictionary or Glossary.

The Dictionary is no dry collection of words. It is rich in humour and antiquarian lore, and abounds in happy illustrations of old manners and customs.

Believing that every patriotic Scotchman, as well as all who prize aids to the unlocking of the treasures of old Scottish Literature, will hail the reproduction of a work which at present is so scarce that it can be procured by book-hunters only with difficulty, it is the intention of the publisher to issue a limited number of copies. This work will be a reprint of the first edition, with the interesting quotations in full, and the SUPPLEMENT. The complete Supplement, however, will be incorporated in the body of the work, and not published separately, as in the original edition.

The work will be comprised in four large Quarto volumes of about 700 pages each, and will be printed on a specially prepared superfine laid paper, from new type. The cost will be 36s. per volume. Large Paper Copies 60s. per volume.

BARLY PRESS NOTICES.

The body of the work itself leaves little to be desired. Type, paper, and binding fully maintain the high character of Mr. Gardner's establishment.-Bookseller.

As to the great value of this work there can be no doubt. The original edition of 1808 has become very scarce, and it was high time that a reprint should be issued. The incorporation of the Supplement is a great boon to the student who consults the volume; he has now only one alphabet to search in, instead of two. We welcome the reprint of the original edition, and wish all success to the undertaking.-Notes and Queries.

The task before the editors is one of great importance and magnitude; but if the whole work is equally well executed with the volume now presented to the public, they may congratulate themselves on having rendered an almost unparalleled service to their countrymen, and to the students of languages and literature generally. We know of no work of the kind executed on so noble a scale. matter, type, paper, and binding, this dictionary is all that the most fastidious bibliographer could desire.-International Review.

Alike in

The volume is a luxury to read. The whole has been printed from a new fount of type, upon finely-toned paper; so that there is not the slightest strain upor the eye in reading the smallest type on the page. In the work itself great improvements have been made. Both the publisher and the accomplished philologists who are the editors, are to be congratulated on their first instalment of a work which will furnish the student with a key better adapted to the unlocking of the Scottish language than any hitherto fabricated.-Literary World.

Under the efficient editorial supervision of the Rev. Dr. Longmuir, of Aberdeen, and Mr. David Donaldson, F.E.I.S., the book has undergone important improvements and additions which will materially enhance its value. Mr. Gardner has obviously resolved to spare neither labour nor expense in order to make this edition of Jamieson's magnificent work as perfect as possible. Indeed, the vastness of the learned labour which must have been expended in the getting up of a work so stupendous approaches to something akin to the marvellous. This splendid reissue so enterprisingly projected by Mr. Gardner, and thus far so successfully accomplished, will do much to rekindle and keep alive in the minds of the present and future generations of Scotchmen the memory of one with whom Scotchmen all the world over may well feel a pardonable pride in claiming kindred.-Dundee Advertiser.

Scotchmen everywhere will learn with satisfaction that a new edition of Jamieson's Dictionary, prepared in a style worthy of the author and of the work, is being issued. In doing this, Mr. Gardner, of Paisley, is as really engaged in a national work as though he were writing an elaborate history of the country; and the manner in which he is fulfilling his task cannot fail to win for him the national gratitude. In the first place, Jamieson is all here. That is by no means the sole merit of the publication. The book has been revised and enlarged, and its value as a work of reference has been vastly enhanced by the revision. Thus we find that all the quotations, corrections, and additions contained in the Supplement, originally issued seventeen years after the Dictionary itself, have been carefully and skilfully embodied; the arrangement of the words has, to some extent, been simplified; and many additional forms and meanings of words have been introduced. It is proper here to add that the typography would reflect credit upon the most famous of metropolitan publishing firms. Neatness, accuracy, and effect are displayed on every page.-Daily Review.

Dr. Jamieson's Dictionary still holds its place as the fullest and most comprehensive repertory of the peculiar words and phrases by which the spoken and written language of Scotland and of Northern England is, or rather was, differentiated from the modern literary language of the United Kingdom. So far, then, as the mere collec

tion of vocables is concerned, Dr. Jamieson did all, or very nearly all, that was possible for him to accomplish; and he has preserved many words which before now would have been buried in oblivion had he not got hold of them. The Scottish language or dialect, whichever is the right term, is dying out, slowly indeed, as is the manner of languages to die, but yet surely. Dr. Jamieson's definitions of the Scottish words which he has collected are generally all that can be desired. The illustrative quotations, too, have been happily chosen-that is, when there was any room for choice; for, in not a few instances, the passage quoted is the only one in which the word so illustrated occurs. Of great value and interest, also, are the descriptions of old Scottish manners, customs, superstitions, and folk-lore in which the work abounds, and which renders its pages, what the pages of dictionaries seldom are, very pleasant as well as very instructive reading. The present edition is handsomely got up and beautifully and accurately printed. The publisher deserves credit for having undertaken a work which is really of national importance and interest.Scotsman.

WIT, WISDOM, AND PATHOS

FROM THE PROSE OF

HEINRICH HEINE,

WITH A FEW PIECES FROM THE "BOOK OF SONGS."

SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY

J. SNODGRASS.

"One of the most successful books of the season."-Aberdeen Journal. A welcome, distinct, and valuable addition to literature."-

Inverness Courier. "He has performed his task with skill, tact, and judgment.”—Notes and Queries.

"It is at once easy and not easy to select from this volume. All is good; and one seems to slight what is left by extracting."-The Week. "We cordially recommend the volume to all lovers of fine fragments. Mr. Snodgrass is to be thanked for a very seasonable bit of work."-The Examiner.

"Mr. Snodgrass has produced a book in which lazy people will find a great deal to please them. They can take it up at any moment, and open it on any page, with the certainty of finding some bright epigram. There is nothing jarring in the whole book."—Athenæum.

"Mr. Snodgrass has certainly done a great service to English literature in presenting us with a compact volume like this. There is nothing but to admire the close attentiveness, the skill and the penetrat ing instinct, by the help of which Mr. Snodgrass follows the sinuous and sometimes serpentine glidingness of Heine's thought and style, and finds equivalents for it in English."-The Spectator.

"Mr. Snodgrass has made us his debtors by bringing into prominence the more earnest and elevated elements in Heine's genius, as well as the lower, and what to the young is certain to be the more attractive-his veiled sarcasm, his cutting raillery. He has conscientiously gone over and made characteristic extracts from most of the works, grouping his passages by the books, and not by subjects; but the reader without any previous knowledge of Heine, will manage to get from it a very good notion of his style of thought and writing."-Nonconformist.

"Mr. Snodgrass has clearly studied his author well and lovingly, and has been generally very successful in catching the grace and witchery and charm of Heine's inimitable turns, not failing even in those sleek and almost cat-like purrings over his prey by which this master prepared for the unsheathing of the claw, which is also, when most deliberate, still done in playfulness. Mr. Snodgrass is certainly to be congratulated on having been the first to present Heine's prose in a form which should be attractive to English readers."--British Quarterly Review.

Crown 8vo, cloth, 5s.; Large Paper, 7s. 6d.

Poems and Lyrics, by Robert Nicoll,

WITH A

MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.

"He has attained a mastery over English, a simplicity and quiet, which Burns never did; and also, we need not say, a moral purity."Charles Kingsley.

"If any of our young friends are not familiar with ROBERT NICOLL let them instantly secure this copy. It contains all the songs, as well as an admirable biography of the poet."-Dundee Advertiser.

"We have unfeigned pleasure in calling attention to this splendid edition of the works of a poet who is not nearly so well known as he deserves to be on this side the Tweed."-Literary World.

"The story of ROBERT NICOLL'S brief life is one of great interest and pathos; while his poems and songs, as the production of a mere boy, are remarkable for their purity, sweetness, and simple earnest melody. The poems are still fresh and sweet; and the story of the young poet's life is worth a hundred common novels in point of authentic interest."-Glasgow Herald.

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No one can lay down the book without feeling wiser, and it may be better and purer in heart."-Perthshire Advertiser.

"His poems are full of fresh joyousness and a vigorous purity that are reviving as the mountain breezes. They are withal full of beautiful thought and true poetic fervour-many of them rising to the level of inspiration of no mean order."-British Mail.

The story of NICOLL'S life is one of the most touching in the annals of biography. Had he lived he would have taken rank only second to Burns. There are many to whom this new edition will be a welcome addition to the mental pleasure of their lives."-Leeds Mercury.

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Simplicity, sweetness, genial playfulness, and manly hopefulness, are among the more prominent characteristics of his verse.

The volume is beautifully printed; and the poems are accompanied by an admirable criticism, and a touching memoir of his life, which was in itself a poem.-Birmingham Daily Post.

"That he wrote so much so early- he died at three and twenty-in weakness and poverty, and amid incessant toil, is marvellous, and his sad life-story-sad, and yet honourable and admirable-gives a most pathetic interest to his work. The life is full of interest and -Scotsman.

the poems are full of beauty.

.

We heartily wish that every one of our readers had a copy

of the work."-Leeds Times.

"Reverend and manly, God-fearing and man-loving, only his higher qualities were wanting to have made Burns perfect."-Daily Review,

In Two Vols., Crown 8vo, Cloth, (386–458 Pages), with Engravings and Facsimile, 12s. 6d. Large Paper, 215.

The Poems of Allan Ramsay,

WITH

LIFE, APPENDIX, AND GLOSSARY.

London Examiner.

Nothing in English bucolic verse is so beautiful as this,

[The Gentle Shepherd,] because nothing is so genuine.

Saturday Review.

RAMSAY is a poet who deserves to be known outside his native country as Burns is known, and as his predecessors Dunbar, Gawain Douglas, and Lindsay ought to be known. Students of real poetry ought not to lose sight of him.

Athenæum.

The present edition forms one of the Series of Reprints of standard Scottish works which Mr. Gardner of Paisley, has made it his speciality to produce. In execution, it presents all the excellent qualities which characterise the preceding numbers of the Series."

Scotsman.

"A reprint of that edition of the Poems of ALLAN RAMSAY,' which has come to be considered the classical one-that, namely, in two volumes, issued in 1800, under the editorship of George Chalmers, hails from Paisley, as other very good reprints, such as that of Alexander Wilson's poems, have recently done. No lover or student of Scottish poetry can afford to be ignorant of them [Ramsay's Poems]. Than this no neater or more complete collection of his works, with the memoir, and the quaint but elegant essay, could be desired, either by the student for reference, or by the less critical lover of RAMSAY's muse for simple delectation."

Glasgow Herald.

"By including 'ALLAN RAMSAY' among his excellent series of 'Paisley Reprints,' Mr. Gardner furnishes modern readers with the best possible means of getting acquainted with a gentle favourite of last century. . ." Courant.

"The thanks of all students of Scottish literature are due to Mr. Gardner for this edition of ALLAN RAMSAY. The life is a well-done sketch, in which full justice is done to his position as one of the leaders of modern Scottish poets, and, until the appearance of Burns, the greatest of the lyric bards of Scotland. The present edition of RAMSAY forms one of the Paisley Reprints' of our Scottish classics, a series distinguished by careful printing and faithful editing."

International Review.

"Mr. Alexander Gardner is rendering a great and valuable service to English literature by his admirable series of reprints. His editions of Scottish and other authors who may now be regarded as classics are simply beyond praise, whether we regard the outward and visible presentment of the book, the nature of the critical work by which the various authors are introduced, or the faithfulness of the text. There is no edition extant of the popular Scottish poet, Allan Ramsay, which can be compared with this. All the authentic material that can be collected is here presented to us.