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After Scott's death in 1832 James Hogg wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. Scott's son-in-law and official biographer, John Gibson Lockhart, declared himself to be filled with 'utter disgust and loathing' at the 'beastly and abominable things' he found it to contain.

This edition includes both the original version, written as a contribution to a Scott biography planned by a young London friend of Hogg's, and a revised version created subsequently for an American market. Those with an interest in Romantic biography and autobiography will be particularly fascinated by these lively, readable, idiosyncratic and disconcerting texts.

A wealth of information is provided in the paperback edition of this volume, which also includes a useful Hogg chronology and reading list.

From reviews of the hardback edition

'What makes this in the end fascinating and compelling reading is that Hogg does not present us with a balanced and distanced account of someone else's life but rather opens up to us a particularly interesting relationship between two people, a relationship which attracts our attention because, like real-life relationships, it is not without its ups and downs, its tensions and disturbances... Jill Rubenstein's excellent introduction to these texts provides us, amongst other things, with a balanced and perceptive account of the two writers' complex relationshipÂ… "the tribute of one remarkable man to another, both flawed and both admirable, living in a remarkable time."' Scottish Studies Review

'The editorial task has been undertaken with a peculiar degree of commitment and with a determination that a long-postponed duty towards James Hogg will now be undertaken with a thoroughness which should stand the test of time.' Studies in Scottish Literature

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A Man of the People Looks Fondly at Sir Walter Scott, His Friend
When he was 30 years old, Sir Walter Scott went in search of a simple Lowland Scotch shepherd named James Hogg. Scott was pursuing old ballads of the Borderlands and had heard that Hogg knew many himself and that his friends and relatives knew many more. This rumor proved true and within minutes a friendship began spanning three more decades until Scott's death in 1832.

Scott saw more literary talent in "the Ettrick Shepherd" than the shepherd initially did in himself. Under Scott's guidance, Hogg created ballads of great power and popularity. Scott was almost rudely critical of Hogg's prose tales, but Hogg won popularity for those as well. And Sir Walter was not shy about proudly introducing his rural friend into aristocratic and literary circles of Scotland and England.

Glimpses of Scott at work and play, in good and bad health, drinking with friends and romping with children and grandchildren are scattered through Hogg's little Memoirs of his world-famous friend. They seem to have quarreled often about their relative literary merits. Once Hogg was so irritated by Scott's criticism of a recent work that he started to leave Scott's home in a huff. Scott begged him to stay, asking him not to take his frankness amiss. Hogg replied: " ... it is the greatest folly in the world for me to be sae. But one's beuks are like his bairns, he disna like to hear them spoken ill o', especially when he is conscious that they dinna deserve it." Once Scott implied that Hogg aimed too high literarily. Hogg interjected: "Dear Sir Walter, ye can never suppose that I belang to your school of chivalry! Ye are the king o' that school, but I'm the king of the mountain and fairy school, which is a far higher ane nor yours."

It is hard when reading Hogg on Scott not to think of Mark Twain's famously savage attacks on the Baronet in LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Both Hogg and Twain (Samuel Clemens) were of simple backgrounds and little formal education. Both saw Walter Scott's faults, especially his deference to the aristocracy and a social world based on class distinctions. Mark Twain even blamed the U.S. Civil War on Scott's IVANHOE and on Scott's filling American Southerners with nonsensical ideas about religion, history, lost causes, dashing hotheaded aristocratic men and willowy young ladies. But Hogg, who knew the Laird of Abbotsford close up, also saw the kindest man he ever knew, the truest friend, the great writer never too busy to drop everything to receive a visitor high or low.

There is no special reason to read James Hogg's Memoirs if you are not very curious about Sir Walter Scott. But if you love Scott and demand to know all there is to know of him, then the Ettrick Shepherd is indispensable. -OOO- ... Read more

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James Stirling's Methodus Differentialis is one of the early classics of numerical analysis. It contains not only the results and ideas for which Stirling is chiefly remembered, for example, Stirling numbers and Stirling's asymptotic formula for factorials, but also a wealth of material on transformations of series and limiting processes. An impressive collection of examples illustrates the efficacy of Stirling's methods by means of numerical calculations, and some germs of later ideas, notably the Gamma function and asymptotic series, are also to be found. This volume presents a new translation of Stirling's text that features an extensive series of notes in which Stirling's results and calculations are analysed and historical background is provided. Ian Tweddle places the text in its contemporary context, but also relates the material to the interests of practising mathematicians today. Clear and accessible, this book will be of interest to mathematical historians, researchers and numerical analysts. ... Read more

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Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon PressPublication date: 1922Subjects: Stirling, James, 1692-1770Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: London : Longmans, Green; Publication date: 1872; Subjects: Protoplasm; ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Review of the hardback edition:

"This is a fascinating volume, full of surprises, challenges and confirmationsÂ… Gillian Hughes's editorial activities are exemplary: the textual decisions and apparatus inspire confidence and assent, and the genesis of theTales is pieced together from manuscript evidence in an introduction which is a serious piece of scholarly detective work in its own rightÂ… [S]he offers finely-observed, stimulating exegesis which will encourage further readings, and the explanatory notes offer some wonderfully suggestive analogies. Altogether, the volume is a revelation."& madash; Studies in Hogg and his World

"I like to write about myself: in fact, there are few things I like betterÂ…'" so confesses Hogg with pawky self-mocking humour inAltrive Tales.

This collection opens with Hogg's own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and Galt. Hogg's frank and humorous "Memoir of the Author's Life" is widely recognised as a classic of Romantic autobiography and an important record of early nineteenth-century Scottish culture.

The themes of the "Memoir" continue in the tales that follow. "The Adventures of Captain John Lochy" is a fast-paced historical fiction, the autobiography of a social outcast adrift in Scotland, Russia, the Netherlands, and Sweden. "The Pongos" (an early version of the Tarzan story) takes a look at Scottish involvement in the British empire in a comic parody of Enlightenment notions about the nature of man and of society. "Marion's Jock" is a virtuoso exercise in Scots and in Hogg's ability to communicate the peasant lifestyle of his native Scottish Borders.

This new edition, thoughtfully introduced, extensively annotated and featuring a reading list and Hogg chronology, presentsAltrive Tales as a major achievement by one of Scotland's finest storytellers.

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
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A reissue of the 1730 Bowyer edition, with a cancel titlepage.

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Biography & AutobiographyEnglish literature; American literature; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes; ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: New Haven, Conn., C. C. Chatfield ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Diagrams missing!
A Stirling's comment to the classic Enumeration of cubic curves by Isaac Newton. Good scanning and reprint in general, but with a serious problem: the nine folded tables at the end, containing all the diagrams of the book, have not been unfolded before scanning, making the book completely unreadable. This is the very same scanning made by Google Books, with the same unbelievable issues. Definitely DON'T BUY IT.

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Publisher: Edinburgh : EdmonstonPublication date: 1878Subjects: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

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