(FORMING VOL. V. OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.) SECOND EDITION. OFFICE OF THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON LIBRARY, 227, STRAND. L. If. Farrit – JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. CONTAINING SOME POETICAL PIECES BY DR. JOHNSON, RELATIVE TO THE TOUR, AND NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED; A SERIES OF HIS CONVERSATION, LITERARY ANECDOTES AND OPINIONS OF WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS, Esq., OF INVERNESS. LONDON: OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY, 227, STRAND. "HE WAS OF AN ADMIRABLE PREGNANCY OF WIT, AND THAT PREGNANCY MUCH IMPROVED BY CONTINUAL STUDY FROM HIS CHILDHOOD; BY WHICH HE HAD GOTTEN SUCH A PROMPTNESS IN EXPRESSING HIS MIND, THAT HIS EXTEMPORAL SPEECHES WERE LITTLE INFERIOR TO HIS PREMEDITATED WRITINGS. MANY, NO DOUBT, HAD READ AS MUCH, AND PERHAPS, MORE THAN HE; BUT SCARCE EVER ANY CONCOCTED HIS READING INTO JUDGMENT AS HE DID."-Baker's Chronicle. BODLEIA 1 APR1932 LIBRARY PETTER, DUFF, AND CO. PLAYHOUSE YARD, BLACKFRIARS |