Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Scottish Prose of the Seventeenth Eighteenth Centuries: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow in 1912
Premising the elimination of the compli mentary epithets, I have ventured to take the hint thus proffered by the first of British critics, and have therefore not translated the substance of the following sheets from the one dialect into the other. The lectures were delivered in the University of Glasgow during the past winter, and they now appear to all intents and purposes in the form in which they actually were delivered, with the addition of a tolerably full apparatus of references and an index. They will not have been given wholly in vain, and they may to some extent fulfil the purpose of the anonymous founder of the Lectureship, if they stimulate the curiosity of some youthful enquirer, and tempt him to investigate in greater detail the disappearance of Scots prose as a literary medium during the seventeenth.
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