"The height
Where the huge Castle holds its state,"
without having felt a strong desire to learn the history of that
venerable pile, and the stirring tales which its grey walls could tell.
What so many must have wished done, has at length been accomplished by
Mr. James Grant, the biographer of Kirkaldy of Grange, the gallant
governor of that castle, who was so treacherously executed by the Regent
Morton. His work, just published under the title of _Memorials of the
Castle of Edinburgh_, contains its varied history, ably and pleasantly
narrated, and intermixed with so much illustrative anecdote as to render
it an indispensable companion to all who may hereafter visit one of the
most interesting, as well as most remarkable monuments of the metropolis
of Scotland.
The lovers of fine engravings and exquisite drawings will have a rare
opportunity of enriching their portfolios in the course of the next and
following week, as Messrs. Leigh Sotheby and Co., of Wellington Street,
commence on Monday a nine days' sale of a magnificent collection of
engravings, of the highest quality, of the ancient and modern Italian,
German, Dutch, Flemish, French, and English schools, which comprises
some superb drawings of the most celebrated masters of the different
schools of Europe.
We have received the following Catalogues:--Bernard Quaritch's (16.
Castle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue of Oriental and Foreign
Books, comprising most Languages and Dialects of the Globe; and John
Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue, Number Four for 1850, of Books,
Old and New.
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