The History of Scottish Poetry, from the Middle Ages
to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. By the
late DAVID IRVING, LL.D. Edited by JOHN AITKEN
CARLYLE, M.D. With a Memoir and Glossary. In one
vol. demy 8vo, 16s.
“Such a book was demanded to supply a gap in
Scottish literature, and being executed with
adequate knowledge of the subject, must be
recognised as a standard work.--_Spectator,
October 19._
“The book seems to us to exhaust the subject,
and is therefore of permanent value.”--_Dumfries
Herald, October 25._