POETEY 



lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems. By 



W. EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN, D.C.L., Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres 

 in the University of Edinburgh. Fourteenth Edition, Foolscap Octavo, 7s. 6d. 



"Mr Aytoun's 'Lays' are truly beautiful, and are perfect poems of their class, pregnant with 

 fire, with patriotic ardour, with loyal zeal, with exquisite pathos, with noble passion. Who can 

 hear the opening lines descriptive of Edinburgh after the great battle of Flodden, and not feel 

 that the minstrel's soul has caught the genuine inspiration ? "Morning Post. 



" Professor Aytoun's 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers' a volume of verse which shows that 

 Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note now 

 sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge." Quarterly Review. 



Aytoun's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. An Illustrated 



Edition. From Designs by J. NOEL PATON and W. H. PATON, A.R.S.A. En- 

 graved by John Thompson, W. J. Linton, W. Thomas, Whymper, Cooper, Green, 

 Dalziels, Evans, &c. In Small Quarto, printed on Toned Paper, bound in gilt 

 cloth, 21s. 



" The artists nave excelled themselves in the engravings which they have furnished. Seizing 

 the spirit of Mr Aytoun's ' Ballads ' as perhaps none but Scotchmen could have seized it, they 

 have thrown their whole strength into the work with a heartiness which others would do well 

 to imitate. Whoever there may be that does not already know these ' Lays ' we recommend at 

 once to make their acquaintance in this edition, wherein author and artist illustrate each other 

 as kindred spirits should. " Standard. 



Bothwell : A Poem. By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L, 



Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres in the University of Edinburgh. Third 

 Edition. Foolscap Octavo, 7s. 6d. 



" A noble poem, healthy in tone and purely English in language, and closely linked to the 

 historical traditions of his native country." John Bull. 



" Professor Aytoun has produced a fine poem and an able argument, and ' Bothwell ' w^l 

 assuredly take its stand among the classics of Scottish literature." The Press. 



The Ballads of Scotland. Edited by Professor Aytoun. 



Second Edition. Two Volumes, Foolscap Octavo, 12s. 



' ' No country can boast of a richer collection of Ballads than Scotland, and no Editor for 

 these Ballads could be found more accomplished than Professor Aytoun. He has sent forth 

 two beautiful volumes which range with Percy's 'Reliques ' which, for completeness and accuracy, 

 leave little to be desired which must henceforth be considered as the standard edition of the 

 Scottish Ballads, and which we commend as a model to any among ourselves who may think of 

 doing like service to the English Ballads. "The Times. 



Poems and Ballads of Goethe, Translated by Professor 



AYTOUN and THEODORE MARTIN. Second Edition, Foolscap Octavo, 6s. 



" There is no doubt that these are the best translations of Goethe's marvellously-cut gems 

 which have yet been published." The Times. 



The Book of Ballads. Edited by Bon Gaultier. Eighth 



Edition, with numerous Illustrations, by DOYLE, LEECH, and CROWQUILL. Gilt 

 Edges, Post Octavo, 8s. 6d. 



Firmilian, or the Student of Badajoz. A Spasmodic 



Tragedy. By T. PERCY JONES. In Small Octavo, 5s. 



' ' Humour of a kind most rare at all times, and especially in the pesent day, runs through 

 every page, and passages of true poetry and delicious versification prevent the continual play of 

 sarcasm from becoming tedious." Literary Gazette. 



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