In Two Vols., Crown 8vo, Cloth, 872 Pp., with Steel Portrait, Two Illustrations, Facsimiles, &c., Price 12s. 6d.; Large Paper, 21s. The Verse and Miscellaneous Prose BOTH WITH LARGE ADDITIONS FROM THE MSS., &c.,) OF ALEXANDER WILSON, The Ornithologist of America, EDITED, WITH MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, LL.D. "We can conceive nothing more welcome than these two volumes."-Literary World. " 'Nothing can exceed the care and industry Mr. Grosart has expended in gathering together his materials."—Scotsman. "WILSON may not be a Scotch poet of the calibre of Burns, but it is something to have roused the rivalry of Audubon, to have earned the encomiums of Michelet, and to be placed in the same scientific list with White and Miller."-Spectator. "Everything honourable and worth knowing about WILSON is here presented. . . His life is one that will still well repay study."-Aberdeen Free Press. "Scotland has reason to be proud of him, alike as a writer and a man. No Scotchman who values the literature of his country will be without Dr. Grosart's edition."-Daily Review. ness. "The imprint of 'Gardner, Paisley' is growing happily common, having of late years adorned the title-page of many volumes of great interest and attractiveThe present issue supplies a long-felt want. The volumes, handsome in themselves, are enhanced in value by a portrait of Wilson, fac-simile of his handwriting, and three illustrations connected with his career in America." -North British Daily Mail. "The study of such a life and of the works of such a man, as they are now presented, cannot fail to be attended with profit; while perusal of the poetical pieces is like foregathering with old friends-friends familiar and dear, yet whom the march of time and circumstances have well nigh caused us to forget. We wish these Paisley reprints every success, and trust the public may estimate them at their proper value, which is intrinsic and high."--Hamilton Advertiser. "Paisley Reprints' hitherto noticed in these columns being superior in appearance to the original editions, it is pleasing to record that no falling off is presented by the two volumes just issued containing the writings of a native so humorous as the author of Watty and Meg, and so famous afterwards in the far different field of American Ornithology. The two volumes with which we have been dealing present by far the most complete picture yet sent forth of Wilson the poet and Wilson the Ornithologist. Here he appears as he lived-a man possessed of genuine gifts and tender feeling, allied to indomitable perseverance, unflagging power of endurance, and the still rarer virtue of thorough simplicity in character,"-Glasgow Herald. PAISLEY WEAVERS OF OTHER DAYS, &c., BY DAVID GILMOUR, "Mr. GILMOUR has made the world his debtor."-Daily Review. "The book is deserving of great approbation."-Dundee Advertiser. "For simplicity, homely humour, and genuine pathos we have seldom of late years met with their equal."—Evening Star. "This is altogether one of the healthiest and most delightful books we have met with for a considerable time."-Freeman. Into whatever hands this volume comes we are sure it will be welcomed as a genuine treat of a very high order."-Ayr Observer. "The author has done his work admirably. His sketches, while thoroughly good-natured, are very graphic and amusing."--Manchester Examiner. "A more readable, enjoyable, or suggestive book has not been issued from the Scottish press since Dean Ramsay published his Reminiscences."-Glasgow Daily Mail. 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Since Mrs. Poyser delighted the world with her humour and wisdom, we have heard no talkers like the men and women that appear on these pages."-Glasgow Herald. "The old-world life of the workshop and the loom; those hard-headed discussions on politics and religion, between men and women who had thought out for themselves a special interpretation of the 'Record,' and most believed their neighbours would be lost, though all were ready in this world to do them a good turn; those genial bits of lighter fore-gatherings are hardly to be mended for simple realism and true Scotch blending of pathos and of humour,"-Graphic. In Imperial 16mo, Cloth Extra, 349 Pages. Price 4s. MODERN DOMESTIC COOKERY INCLUDING PLANS FOR DINNER AND SUPPER PARTIES, WITH BILLS OF FARE FOR ALL CLASSES. BY JENNY WREN, Cook and Housekeeper. While even "wealthy persons who keep an artist" may pick up an appetising recipe in its pages, and epicures rediscover an ancient and dimly-remembered joy in various old-fashioned Scotch dishes, the general public will find bills of fare suitable to all seasons and adapted to the circumstances of all classes. One of the best recommendations of the book is that the recipes are not recipes for imaginary dishes, but are the results of long practical experience, and have been frequently tested by the proof of the pudding."-Glasgow Herald. 4 * * After we had looked it carefully through for ourselves, and then submitted it to the criticism of a competent "cook and housekeeper," we were led to the conclusion that it is one of the best books of the kind yet published. It avoids the unblushing extravagance of the general cookery-book of the day, and provides receipts which the middle-class housewife will at least know how to modify for her own use. It is essentially a book for the middle-classes, and, if properly used, cannot fail to be the means both of saving not a few pounds a year and of adding many toothsome and nourishing dishes to the family menu. It should be added that Jenny Wren gives her directions in a charmingly clear and chatty manner, while in paper, printing, and general get-up, the publisher has made it a beautiful book. We commend it to the notice of all careful housewives.-Literary World. The work has not been compiled for the benefit of the epicure or graduate in the culinary art, but for beginners in housekeeping, and especially for those who have to study economy in the kitchen. Jenny Wren traverses the whole range of cookery, from the stately dinner-party to the humblest fare. The introductory chapters are especially interesting, and the young housewife should be thoroughly grounded in them. The principles upon which she should manage the household commissariat are therein inculcated so that the expenditure may be regulated according to the income of the head of the family. The innumerable recipes have been thoroughly tested by the fair authoress, and, therefore, can be relied upon.-Court Journal. * * Jenny knows her work, and writes in a plain, sensible, convincing fashion. Her book is not intended for the upper ten thousand, but for the middle classes. The recipes given are, she declares, "the ripe fruit of experience, and in arranging them my leading idea has been not to multiply recipes, but to give formulas for the preparation of what may be called 'representative dishes.'" * Among the many ponderous volumes now before the public on this much written on subject, "Modern Domestic Cookery," by Jenny Wren, deserves an honoured place. 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