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[No. 70, March 13, 1830.]

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Hame frae the Wars, dedicated to Lady Wm. Lennox,

I prithee give me back my Heart,

Oh! Love is like the sunny ray,
The Birks of Aberfeldy,

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Contents of this Volume:-1. Hay's Vindication of Eliz. More (Queen of Robert II.) and the Royal Family of Scotland.-2. Gordon's Dissertation on the Marriage of Robert II. with E. More, now first published in English.-3. Waddel's Remarks on Innes's Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of Scotland.-4. Taitt's Roman Account of Britain and Ireland, in Answer to Innes's Essay.-5. Cunningham's Essay upon the Inscription on Macduff's Crosse in Fyfe.-6. Memoirs relating to the Restoration of King James I. of Scotland.-Lord Ruthven's Relation of the Death of David Rizzi, the only reprint of the genuine edition published in 1699.-8. Johnston's Historie of Scotland during the Minoritie of King James VI., translated by Thomas Middleton.-9. A True Accompt of the Baptism of Prince Henry Fred. Son of K. James VI., Edinburgh, 1594, The whole illustrated by Bibliographical and Critical Notices. Edinburgh, 13th March, 1830.

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The Work is so printed, that it ranges with, and forms a suitable Companion, not only to Lieutenant-Colonel Batty's former Works of "European Scenery," but also to "Brokedon's Alps," "Turner's Southern Coast," "Turner's Views in England," and to all the principal Books of Scenery published of late years. The size of the Engravings will be 9 inches by 6, being the average size of "Turner's Southern Coast;" and the Publishers have the pleasure to state, that they have obtained for the India-paper copies, a supply of this description of paper, of a quality superior in brightness and purity to any that has hitherto been before the public. Each Part, to which the vignette plate is made to constitute an ornamental title, will form in itself a complete work, and be sold separately: Tourists and Collectors will be thus enabled to possess Views of those Cities and Places they may have visited, or respecting which they feel mest interested.

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Parts I. to IV. already published, contain the following Views:-1. Cathedral at Antwerp-2. Cathedral at Brussels-3. Hotel de Ville,
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CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES of ANIMALS; Drawn from the Life, and Engraved by THOMAS

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Part I. to III. already published, contain :-The Giraffe-Bonassus-Thibet Dog-African Elephant-Elk-Ibex-Musk Bull-Bengal Tigers-Rhinoceros -Brahmin Bull-Satyr-and the Chetah.

This Work will be published in Parts, the First Day of every alternate Month. Each Part will contain Eight Engravings, Four being large Plates, and the remainder spirited Vignettes of appropriate Subjects, designed by Mr Landsker. The Engravings will be accompanied by interesting Descriptions and Notices of the various animals pourtrayed; and the whole Work will be got up in the best manner.

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LITERARY CRITICISM.

THE BANNATYNE CLUB.

Memorials of George Bannatyne. 1545-1608. Printed at Edinburgh, 1829. Printed for private distribution among the members of the Club exclusively.

THE objects of the institution whose title we have placed at the head of this article are, as expressed in the second article of their laws, “the printing and publication of Works illustrative of the History, Literature, and Antiquities of Scotland." It was founded in 1823, by Sir Walter Scott. The number of members, which is limited to one hundred, is already full, and the list consists of some of the most distinguished names, both for rank and literature, in Scotland and England. On the last vacancy that occurred, the honour of admission was sought with an earnestness only to be equalled by the anxiety with which our aristocracy move heaven and earth to obtain an entrée into the Caledonian Hunt. The Bannatyne Club is, indeed, a sort of Secret Society, which holds forth peculiar attractions—an assemblage of the noble and learned of the land, affiliated for the avowed purpose of furthering the great object of publishing in private-if the phrase be not an Iricism. We think our readers will feel interested in any information we can give them concerning this new sect, associated for a purpose rarely entertained at any period of the world's history, but most rarely in our own, that of hiding their light under a bushel.

The Bannatyne Club, founded and constituted as already mentioned, derives its name from a worthy and pains-taking collector of old manuscript poems, "of whom more anon." The fund requisite for defraying the expense of works printed under the authority of the Club, is obtained by an annual contribution of five guineas from each member. The works to be published are determined on by a Committee, consisting of the office-bearers, and six members, two of whom go out annually by rotation. The Committee also regulates the number of copies to be printed. Of these each member receives one copy, free of all charge, and the remainder are disposed of as donations to such libraries and private individuals as are approved of by the Committee. It is further provided, that when works of such importance or magnitude are printed, as to render it expedient to extend their circulation beyond the Club, it shall be in the discretion of the Committee to direct an extra impression to be thrown off, for sale, on a paper differing in size and quality from the members' copies. It is also enacted, that if any member of the Club shall undertake to have printed, at his own expense, particular works or tracts, relative to Scottish affairs, the printer shall be furnished with the necessary supply of paper, made for the publications of the Club; it being understood that each member shall receive one copy of every work or tract so printed. Lastly, there is a library attached to the Club, for which there is retained a copy of every work printed for the Club, whether out of the ge neral fund, or at the expense of individual members.

From this pretty full abstract of the regulations of the Club, the reader will easily perceive that it has had its

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rise in that mixed spirit of jest and earnest, which is the source of half the pleasures of cultivated minds. It is peculiarly the characteristic of Britons to transact grave affairs in a jesting manner, and to deliberate with a grave brow over trifles. On the field of battle a jest is quickly felt, and eagerly responded to, by our soldiery; in St Ste-' phens, the house rings again at some sorry pun, even when conflicting factions are lowering on each other in the utmost heat of angry excitement. While, on the other hand, the fashions of dress, the affairs of the table, the regulations of our festive meetings, are canvassed with the gravity of Roman Censors. To us there is something excessively piquant in the idea of setting about our amusements with all the " pomp, pride, and circumstance," of the most serious affairs of life; and we are delighted when we see so grave a man as Sir Walter Scott, or, graver still, Mr Thomas Thomson, anxiously canvassing which has the better claim to priority of publication, "Robene and Makyne," or "The Buke of the Howlat," or "The Palice of Honour."

Let us not, however, deny for a moment that an essential benefit is deducible from this species of intellectual recreation. There are an immense number of books, which, though interesting in the eye of the professed antiquary, simply because they are old, are valuable in the estimation of the philosophical enquirer, because of the strong light they reflect upon the character of the age in which they were composed. Many of these works are too alien from our age's tastes and habits of thought, to make it worth while to re-publish them, even were there the most distant prospect that the speculation could be otherwise than ruinous to the undertaker. The public at large would not so much as look at them. At the same time, the importance of these works to the historical student, the fact that many of them exist only in manuscript, or that only one or two solitary printed copies have survived the wreck of time, makes us naturally anxious that some better guarantee should be obtained for their preservation. The peculiar taste of the Bannatyne Club, and the method it has taken for the acquisition of such rarities, appear admirably calculated to ensure this object. It is, therefore, with no ordinary interest that we look upon the proceedings of an association, which, in affording an elegant amusement for its members' hours of relaxation, conduces also to the public benefit.

Nor let it be supposed that, when we speak of the transactions of the Bannatyne Club, as affording a relaxation to its members, we mean to represent them as the mere trifling of men of literary habits. Their catalogue of publications contains many valuable fragments of Scottish History. Take, for example, their publications connected with the second half of the sixteenth century. There is, in the first place, a "Discours particulier d'Escosse, ecrit par Jacques Makgil et Jean Bellenden, 1559." This work contains an interesting account of the civil and judicial institutions of Scotland at that period, drawn up for the use of Queen Mary, and her husband the Dauphin. Then there is Mr Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, a work published under the auspices of the Club, which we have already noticed with approbation more than once, Next

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