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Owing to the Editor's removal from London, and the heavy and unforeseen demands made upon his time, during the past year, in connection with accepting a Mastership at Mill Hill School, he has not had time to prepare for the press the large mass of materials which he has collected in illustration of these subjects. It has therefore been decided to issue at once the Minor Poems, completing the text of Lyndesay, along with a portion of the prefatory matter, consisting of the Essay of Professor Nichol on the History of Scottish Poetry and the place of Lyndesay therein, with the interesting original preface of Henry Charteris to the first edition of the Warkis, Edinburgh, 1568. Sunnyside, Mill Hill, Feb., 1871. J. A. H. MURRAY. |