The following Volumes are now ready:—

• THOMAS CARLYLE. By Hector C. Macpherson.
• ALLAN RAMSAY. By Oliphant Smeaton.
• HUGH MILLER. By W. Keith Leask.
• JOHN KNOX. By A. Taylor Innes.
• ROBERT BURNS. By Gabriel Setoun.
• THE BALLADISTS. By John Geddie.
• RICHARD CAMERON. By Professor Herkless.
• SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON. By Eve Blantyre Simpson.
• THOMAS CHALMERS. By Professor W. Garden Blaikie.
• JAMES BOSWELL. By W. Keith Leask.
• TOBIAS SMOLLETT. By Oliphant Smeaton.
• FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. By G. W. T. Omond.
• THE “BLACKWOOD” GROUP. By Sir George Douglas.
• NORMAN MACLEOD. By John Wellwood.
• SIR WALTER SCOTT. By Professor Saintsbury.
• KIRKCALDY OF GRANGE. By Louis A. BarbÉ.
• ROBERT FERGUSSON. By A. B. Grosart.
• JAMES THOMSON. By William Bayne.
• MUNGO PARK. By T. Banks Maclachlan.
• DAVID HUME. By Professor Calderwood.
• WILLIAM DUNBAR. By Oliphant Smeaton.
• SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. By Professor Murison.
• ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. By Margaret Moyes Black.
• THOMAS REID. By Professor Campbell Fraser.
• POLLOK AND AYTOUN. By Rosaline Masson.
• ADAM SMITH. By Hector C. Macpherson.
• ANDREW MELVILLE. By William Morison.
• JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER. By E. S. Haldane.
• KING ROBERT THE BRUCE. By A. F. Murison.
• JAMES HOGG. By Sir George Douglas.
• THOMAS CAMPBELL. By J. Cuthbert Hadden.

The designs and ornaments of this volume are by Mr Joseph Brown, and the printing from the press of Messrs Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh.

To
MY WIFE
WHO, BY HER QUIET HELPFULNESS AND
FAIR COMPANIONSHIP, LIGHTENS FOR ME THE
BURDENS OF THE LITERARY LIFE,
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK