H ISTORY OF SCOTLAND. By P. F. TYTLER, Esq. ' F.R.S.E ' P.
F. TYTLER, Esq.' F.R.S.E' . F.A.S., &.c. Vol. I. Svo. lb. Including the period from the Accession of Alexander III. to the Death of Robert Bruce.
BROWN'S PHILOSOPHY of the MINI), with a Portrait, Memoir, and Index. In one vol. Svo. 1/. Is.
"All inestimable book."-Dr. Parr.
ISPCIILLOCH'S POLITICAL ECONOMY. Svo. 12s. His edition of SMITH'S WEALTH of NATIONS. 4 vols. Svo. 21. 12s. Gd.
CHAMBERS'S PICTURE of SCOTLAND. 2 vols. 8vo., plates, 11. Is.
" These two volumes are full of entertainment for those who lore the materiel of romance-the description of beautiful scenery, the traditionary legends of the country, and antiquarian accounts of the remains of historical monuments. Here, moreover, we have geographical information for the tourist, and general directions, which cannot but interest all persons who propose to traverse the romantic region of tScotland. Taking it, however, simply as a post-chaise companion, we-can assure all readers who love this class of books, that it would be difficult to find a work which contains such a fund of anecdote, story, legend, adventure, mixed up with picturesque description and sensible remark. Mr. Chambers is not a man who combines in a workmanlike manner the materials of other authors ; the whole contents of his picture are originally collected by himself in a laborious personal investigation. The very spot of an assassination is known to him ; and no personage has been beheaded without Mr. Chambers knowing the window out of which he stepped to the scaffold. No castle has been witness to a scene of cruelty or bloodshed, (and what castle In Scotland is guiltless of such scenes ?) that our author is not familiarly acquainted, if not with the transaction as it took place, at least with all that the gossips have ever said about it."-Atlas. Printed for William .Tait, Ediubnrgh -and Longman and CO,, London,,
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