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editor does not reveal his identity in the work. This is known 

 as the Belfast edition, priced at 6s. 6d., and now quite rare. 

 A cheaper edition was apparently issued by the same pub- 

 lisher at about the same date, and a larger edition in 1853. 



Jardine's "Memoir" appearing in the fourth volume of the 

 Naturalist's Library, 1843, priced at 4s. 6d., was taken from 

 the material incorporated in his 1832 edition. Duyckinek's 

 Cyclopaedia of American Literature, Vol. L, 1856, contains an 

 excellent short life in which appears some new material, nota- 

 bly evidence of the blamelessness of President Jefferson in 

 relation to the Pike expedition application, though we are 

 sorry that the writer should .give countenance to the discred- 

 ited blackmailing story alleged to have occurred before Wil- 

 son departed for America. 



Seymour's "Self Made Men," 1858, contains an excellent 

 short biography ; and Mrs. C. Lucy Brightwell's "Difficulties 

 Overcome, Scenes in the Life of Alexander Wilson," 1861, 

 would be very readable were it not disfigured by an antiquated 

 type, though it contains nothing new. This little book was 

 Jong a desirata with Jos. M. Wade, the Wilson bibliomanioc, 

 twice catalogued in Europe and both times lost to him. In 

 1863, Allen Park Paton contributed some most excellent new 

 material in a pamphlet of 32 pages, priced at one shilling, en- 

 titled "Wilson the Ornithologist, a New Chapter in His Life." 

 Sir Eom de Camden's "Memorable Facts in the Lives of 

 Memorable Americans," appeared in Potter's American Month- 

 ly and Illustrated Magazine for 1875 ; and in 1876, inspired by 

 the interests of the publishers of the latest edition of Wilson's 

 Ornithology, Dorsey Gardener gave an admirable sketch of 

 "Wilson, the Ornithologist," in Scribner's Monthly. The same 

 year appeared the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart's two stout lit- 

 tle volumes of "Poems and Literary Prose," with a "Memorial- 

 Introduction," quoted at 7s. 6d. Although it neglects the .or- 

 nithological for the literary side, following the unjustly con- 

 demned Belfast edition, which it much resembles, the make- 

 up is admirable, despite frequent errors of judgment and the 

 partiality of a Paisley resident. Also mention must be made 



