...convinced as he is, that nothing would tend more to throw light on the manners and tastes of the gieat body of the people, during the various stages of Scottish...antiquarian, the task of writing such a history, and lo prefix it as an introduction to Dugald Graham s (the Glasgow bellman) History of the Rebellion in...

...the vast variety of the Chap Books of Scotland, would undertake a history of the VULGAR LITERATURE OP THE COUNTRY : convinced as he is that nothing would...during the various stages of Scottish improvement." — vol. i. p. 263,6. Mr. Strang had urged this work upon Sir Walter Scott — making the metrical...

...been long and is unquestionably still a desideratum, for certainly nothing could tend to throw so much light on the manners and tastes of the great body of the people as such a work. In 1830 it was hoped that Sir Walter Scott—than whom no man could have so well and...

...long and is unquestionably still a desideratum,' for certainly nothing could tend to throw so much light on the manners and tastes of the great body of the people as such a work." Twenty years have elapsed since the publication of " Glasgow and its Clubs," and up...

...been long and is unquestionably still a desideratum, for certainly nothing could tend to throw so much light on the manners and tastes of the great body of the people as such a work. In 1830 it was hoped that Sir Walter Scott — than whom no man could have so well...