CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE

CHAPTER II WANDERJAHRE SOCIAL LIFE IN SCOTLAND BEGINNING OF HIS LITERARY LIFE

CHAPTER III PHILOSOPHY BEFORE FERRIER'S DAY

CHAPTER IV 'FIERCE WARRES AND FAITHFUL LOVES'

CHAPTER V DEVELOPMENT OF 'SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHY, THE OLD AND THE NEW' FERRIER AS A CORRESPONDENT

CHAPTER VI FERRIER'S SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS

CHAPTER VII THE COLERIDGE PLAGIARISM MISCELLANEOUS LITERARY WORK

CHAPTER VIII PROFESSORIAL LIFE

CHAPTER IX LIFE AT ST. ANDREWS

CHAPTER X LAST DAYS

Footnotes

JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER

FAMOUS SCOTS SERIES

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 Morrison
• JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER. By E. S. Haldane

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