1^4* tlTERARY SOCIETY, 



fideratum mentioned by your correfpondent. The firft is prifl- 

 cipally calculated for the commercial part of the inhabitants, 

 and thofe who have time to lounge; the fecond, although 

 comprifing much ufeful reading, is fometimes defe6live in the 

 feledion of the books, and affords little opportunity for (he 

 union of literary exertions. 

 Confidcratlon in A fociety whofe books are the property of the individual 

 rietory afToda'-' fu^fcribers, is far better adapted, not only for advancing knovv- 

 tion. ledge and bringing ufeful talents into notice, but alfo for giving 



a favourable bias to the purfuits of ingenious young men of all 

 defcriptions, to whom fuch a fociety is at all limes acceflible, 

 from the fmall expence attending it. People become more 

 folidly concerned in promoting the fuccefs of any fcheme, in 

 proportion as their perfonal interefts are interwoven with it ; 

 and we may therefore conclude, that a man will take more 

 pleafure, and perhaps derive more profit, from reading a book 

 which he confiders as his own property, than one only lent 

 him for a time. 

 Subfciiption- Imprefled with thefe confiderations, a iew perfons in Aber- 



ed7«b.''i8o5^' ^^*^" inftituted a fubfcription-library upon the 22d February. 

 1805, under the title of the Caledonian Literary Society. Be- 

 fides embracing all the periodical publications of merit in Great 

 Britain, our ftock is enriched with a feledlion of the moft ap- 

 proved books, eit=her prefented by the members or purchafed 

 from the Society^ funds : Which Society has already increafed 

 to upwards of 100 members, and the lift is daily augmenting 

 in number and refpectability. 

 at a very mode- It is Worthy of remark, that the trifling fum of fix fliillings 

 y»te expence. per annum is only required from each fubfcriber to The CalC' 

 donian Literary Society. So inconfiderable an expence, con- 

 trafted with the great variety of ufeful and entertaining^ know- 

 ledge to be derived from it, muft form a very powerful re- 

 tommendation in its favour. 



We have been informed with pleafure, that many perfons 

 in'Glafgow, who are not members of the Society eftabliflied 

 there, have contributed liberally to its fupport by giving books 

 ■i — an example worthy of the imitation ot others. 

 A Fbllofop^ieal It 's a'fo in contemplation to inftitute a Philofopbical Society, 

 Ifofitty in con- ^n a plan fimilar to tliofe of London, Edinburgh, &c. for the 

 purpofe of receiving occafional diflertations on a variety of 



literary 



