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Scotchman, 1812 (in the Scottish dialect): The Gaberlunzie, 1825, edited by Archibald Crawford; The Comet, 1823; The Paisley Miscellany, 1823; The Tickler, 1828; The Paisley Magazine, 1828, ably edited by Motherwell; The New Paisley Repository, 1853, published by the eccentric bookseller, William Anderson, who seems to have written all the original matter it contains. This copy has bound up with it some curious manuscript rhymes by Anderson, and the autographs of several Paisley poets; and the Paisley Wallet, 1856. Among other Paisley books are-The Scotch Haggis, 1829 (Mr. Shields has also the curious and scarce Scotch Haggis, Edinburgh, 1822, an entirely different work); The Harp of Renfrewshire, 1819; Account of an Aerial Voyage from Glasgow in the year 1785, 1813; Declaration of the Witnesses that Survived the late Persecution, 1777. We may also notice An Account of the Travels of John Magee, pedlar and flying stationer, 1826; and a small collection of pamphlets on the Paisley Assemblies, 1817, one of them the first publication of William Motherwell. Here are also the more modern publications of David Semple, John Parkhill, and David Gilmour.

Among reports of trials are-Five rare pamphlets (Edinburgh and London, 1705) on the case of Captain Green, executed for alleged piracy (this is the subject of an interesting chapter in Dr. Hill Burton's Criminal Trials); a series of tracts on the Porteous Riots, 1736; a poetical pamphlet (Edinburgh, 1696) on the case of Thomas Aitkenhead, executed on a charge of atheism ; Trial of Thomas Muir for sedition, 1793; the Telegraph; a poetical Epistle from Thomas Muir of Botany Bay to the Hon. Henry Erskine, and the Paisley Declaration of Reform, the circulation of which was one of the charges against Muir, are included. The Life of James M'Kaen, shoemaker, executed at the Cross of Glasgow for the robbery and murder of James Buchanan, the Lanark carrier, 1797;

the principal trials in Glasgow for murder, dating from 1828 downwards, including several rare pamphlets on the Madeline Smith case; Trial of Mackoull for robbing the Paisley Union Bank of £20,000; Trial of Burke and Hare, complete edition, and several street ballads on the case; Kingan v. Watson, 1823 (the extraordinary local anonymous letters case), and the case of Stuart of Dunearn, who shot Sir Alexander Boswell in a duel. This is a unique volume, consisting of cuttings from "The Glasgow Sentinel," in which newspaper the abusive article and songs by Boswell were published.

There are here about thirty of the curious publications of "The Tinclarian Doctor," William Mitchell, tinsmith or tinker in Edinburgh and Glasgow (obit 1740). Among these are-"The History and Mistery of the Great Tinclarian Doctor," supposed to be unique; his True Description of the People of Glasgow; and his "Thanksgiving Day for his M. King George concerning the Salt Tax, oho! and also his Sermon preached at the Abbay to a drunken congregation concerning a pair of breeks, oho!" Dr. Chambers in his Domestic Annals mentions the great rarity of Mitchell's productions, only one piece being

in the British Museum.

This library contains one of the largest collections of Chap-books in the West of Scotland. It includes many rare and almost unknown articles from the presses of the following towns:-Aberdeen, Airdrie, Ayr, Beith, Dalry, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow (of dates 1714 to 1825), Greenock, Johnstone, Kilmarnock, Newton-Stewart, Paisley, and Stirling; also, Belfast, Birmingham, Coventry, Dublin, London, Newcastle, Waterford, Whitehaven, and York. They are of all kinds-poetical, religious, and facetious-many rudely illustrated, and include a set, so far as known, of Dougal Graham's works in early editions.

While the brothers Foulis issued their fine editions. of the Classics, the Saltmarket presses were supplying pabulum to the common reader in the form of coarsely printed and bound 18mos, many "adorned" (?) with rude woodcuts. Some of these were the popular romances of the Elizabethan age, others, native productions. As specimens may be noted-Gesta Romanorum, Argalus and Parthenia, The Scots Rogue, History of the Bucaniers, The Nine Worthies, Robinson Crusoe, The Seven Wise Masters and the ubiquitous Pilgrim's Progress. These and others of dates. 1713 to the close of the century, are here.

Among the books by Scottish writers, or on Scottish. subjects, not included in our classification we may mention Lithgow's Travels, 1640; Irving's Historiae Scotiae Nomenclatura, Edinburgh, 1697, and his extraordinary Medicina Magnetica, Edinburgh, 1656; Ferguson's Scots Proverbs, Edinburgh, 1785; and of books relating to James VI., his Court and Character, by Sir A. Weldon, 1650; Truth brought to Light, 1692, and his Apopthegmes, or Table-Talke, 1643. Of more modern works relating to this country we have only space for a few, viz. :-The various works of Cosmo Innes, Robert Chambers' Scottish works in early editions, Mactaggart's Galovidian Encyclopedia, 1824; The Laird of Logan, Glasgow, 1835-7 (first edition), and various antiquarian books.

Among the Glasgow printed books are-Beaumont and Fletcher, 2 volumes, Urie, 1768; Otway, Foulis, 1745; The Gentle Shepherd, Foulis, 1745; Sidney's Defense of Poesy, Urie, 1752; Selden's Table Talk, Foulis, 1755; The Marquis of Worcester's Century of Inventions, Foulis, 1767; Lindsay's Chronicles, Úrie, 1749; Esop's Fables (with woodcuts), Urie, 1752; The Beggar's Opera, Urie, 1750; and Gulliver's Travels, Knox, 1759.

There are some rare pamphlets on Stockbroking, dated from 1719 to 1768; and a selection of old

English poetry, the drama, and miscellaneous books, in early editions, as Herrick's Hesperides, 1648; Fuller's Good Thoughts, 1657; Bishop Hall's Characters, 1607; Milton's Poems, first illustrated edition, 1711; More's Utopia, 1637; Samuel Wesley's Maggots, 1685; Fontaine's Tales, Edinburgh, 1763; Grammont's Memoirs, 1714; and the pretty edition of Rabelais, 5 volumes, 18mo, 1750. Altogether the collection is curious and interesting.

CHAPTER XXIV.

LIBRARY OF JOHN WORDIE, ESQ., BUCKINGHAM
TERRACE.

Nature of the Collection-General Collections of Proverbs-Anecdote Illustrating the State of old Scottish Inns-Classical Proverbs-Eastern Proverbs-Proverbs of Modern European Nations-English, Scottish, and Gaelic Proverbs-Ana-Scottish BooksWorks of T. S. Muir Orkney and ShetlandLanguage-John Grub-Conclusion.

As a general library this collection would be well worth describing, but our purpose is not to add another general collection to the typical ones already given, but to follow Mr. Wordie into a department of book-collecting in which, in this city at least, he is alone. It would not be difficult for an ingenious lover of books to give good and sufficient reason for almost every possible form of book-collecting which was not bookmutilating, but certainly his task would be easiest when defending those who choose a useful subject and follow it out exhaustively. A black-letter man, or an uncut man, who is black-letter or uncut and nothing

else, requires a skilful advocate; but the collector of books on one subject needs no defence. He renders a distinct and valuable service to the reading world, and the more unusual the subject the greater the merit.

Mr. Wordie's special love has been the literature of proverbs, epigrams, and books related thereto, and in his study of these he has gathered many works on language. The library is also notable for the large number of books it contains on Orkney and Shetland and the Western Islands of Scotland.

Our parœmiological studies may very properly begin with works of a polyglot nature, containing the proverbs of more than one nation. From these we will proceed to classical proverbs, from thence to those of Eastern origin, modern foreign proverbs following, and the proverbs of England and Scotland succeeding, those in the language of the Gael bringing up the rear. The earliest general collection here is a work printed at Duaci in 1604, of which the following is the full title:"Enigmata et Griphi veterum ac recentium, cum Notis Josephi Castalionis I.C. in Symposium: Adhaec Pythagorae Symbola, et Joan. Aegidii Nuceriensis Adagiorum Gallis vulgarium hac recenti editione auctorum in lepidos et emunctos Latinae linguae versiculos traductio." It went through many editions under the title of "Les Prouerbes Communes." The next work is a very important one, and one rarely found complete. It is in three volumes, published at Frankfurt in 1610, 1611, and 1612 respectively, and the first volume bears the following title, the other volumes varying slightly" Florilegium Ethico-politicum nunquam antea editum ; nec non P. Syri ac Lucii Senecae Sententiae aureae; recognoscente Jano Grutero ad MSS. Palat. et Frising. Accedunt Gnomae Paroemiaeque Graecorum, item Proverbia: Germanica, Belgica, Italica, Gallica, Hispanica."

Duplessis says of it that "the work is without doubt the most voluminous collection that exists of Maxims,

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