Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...eight lines are part of one production. The next two evidently have no connection with what goes before, and the last two belong of course to the well-known nursery rhymes of "The King in his parlour, &c." It seems to me that possibly the seventh and eight lines, "Frae Aireland and Aberdeen The ferlies o' fifteen." may allude to the Jacobite revolution of 1715, and the unexpected development of disloyalty that that year revealed. And as the leader of the revolution raised his standard on the Kraes of Mar and one of the head of the military enterprise Major-General Thomas Buchan was an Aberdonian, while the enterprise was in the interest of the Catholic dynasty of the Stuarts, it is probable that the poet wished to suggest in this way that however Aberdeen may have dreaded the Jacobite movement, the true origin of it and all the wonder it had produced in Scotland was the Catholic interest as represented by that portion of the kingdom where the Catholic church predominated. Dollar. W. B. R. W. literature. Mr. G. Hedeler, Leipzig, has sent us a prospectus of a List of Private Libraries in Great Britain. This is a new departure in Biblography but a very useful one, enabling researchers to see where they may expect to find collections of a more or less specific character. The first part of the compilation will be ready in December. It will include more than 500 important private collections of the United States and Canada. The statements as to the number of volumes, the principal features, etc., of the separate collections are furnished, almost without exception, by the owners thereof. The Index of Subjects appended enables the reader to determine at a glance which collectors devote themselves to each of the specialities indexed. The seco...
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