Traditions of Edinburgh . W & K. CHAMBERS. AND LONDON • • • t m * I • • - • • a - > • • • t • .* * « c • . • ••• • * • * * » v - • • • * ? » • • * • . : • »•» •«• • •• • • • . DAtt C: 3 INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 1868. I am about to do what very few could do without emotion— ^ revise a book which I wrote forty-five years ago. This little X work came out in the Augustan days of Edinburgh, when K^ Jeffrey and Scott, Wilson and the Ettrick Shepherd, Dugald Stewart and Alison, were daily giving the productions of their minds to the public, and while yet Archibald Constable acted as
Traditions of Edinburgh . W & K. CHAMBERS. AND LONDON • • • t m * I • • - • • a - > • • • t • .* * « c • . • ••• • * • * * » v - • • • * ? » • • * • . : • »•» •«• • •• • • • . DAtt C: 3 INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 1868. I am about to do what very few could do without emotion— ^ revise a book which I wrote forty-five years ago. This little X work came out in the Augustan days of Edinburgh, when K^ Jeffrey and Scott, Wilson and the Ettrick Shepherd, Dugald Stewart and Alison, were daily giving the productions of their minds to the public, and while yet Archibald Constable acted as the unquestioned emperor of the publishing world. I was then an insignificant person of the age of twenty ; yet, destitute as I was both of means and friends, I formed the hope of ^ writing something which would attract attention. The subject I proposed was one lying readily at hand, the romantic things connected with Old Edinburgh. If, I ca
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