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=THE DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE.= By IAN MACLAREN.
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=LITERARY ANECDOTES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY=: Contributions towards the Literary History of the Period. Edited by W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D., and THOMAS J. WISE. Volume I., 20_s._ net.
PREFACE.--The work, of which this is the first volume, has been suggested by Nichols"s well-known _Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_. The editors hope to provide in it a considerable amount of fresh matter, ill.u.s.trating the Life and work of British Authors in the Nineteenth Century. To a large extent they rely upon ma.n.u.script material, but use will be made of practically inaccessible texts, and of fugitive writings. While leading authors will receive due attention, much s.p.a.ce will be devoted to the less-known writers of the period. It is intended to supply Biographies, Letters. .h.i.therto unpublished, additions from Ma.n.u.script sources to published works, together with a series of full Bibliographies of the writings of the greater authors.
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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._