(jo) HIStORr of the SOCIETi: 



w"^tie°Erq: II. Obfervations on the VIS I OR, a Poem firjl pnhUped in 

 Ramsay's Evergreen. 



Thefe obfervations, which vindicate Allan Ramsay's title to 

 the poems in queflion, were publiflied in the before-mentioned 

 volmne of the Antiquarian Tranfadlions in 1792. 



III. An Account of the fajhionahle Amiifements and Entertain- 

 ments of Edinburgh in the lajl Century, with the Plan of 

 a grand Concert of Mufic [^perforrned there"] on St Cecilia's 

 Day 1695. 



Mr Tytler was Hkewife the author of a paper in the Loun- 

 ger, No. 16. " Defects of modern Female Education in teaching the 

 Duties of a Wife.'' 



On all Mr Tytler's compofitions the charadler of the Man 

 is ftrongly impreffed, which never, as in fome other inflances, 

 is in the fmallefl degree contradicted by or at variance with the 

 charadter of the Author. He wrote what he felt, on fubjedis 

 which he felt, on fubjedls relating to his native coimtry, to the 

 arts which he loved, to the times which he revered. A zealous 

 Scotfman, a keen mufician, an old man with his youthful re- 

 membrances waiTO in his mind, he wrote on the hiflory of 

 Scotland, on mufic, and on the amufements of former times in 

 Edinburgh ; and I confefs, that from a knowledge of this cir- 

 cumflance, I read his works with an intereft which I fliould not 

 feel, if I confidered them as flowing from a pen which was the 

 inftrument of the author's ingenuity rather than of his heart. 



His heart indeed was in every thing he wrote, or faid, or 

 did. He had, as his family and friends could warmly attefl, 

 aU the kindnefs of benevolence : he had its anger too ; for be- 

 nevolence is often the parent of anger. There v«ras nothing 



neutral 



