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McLachlan, | Abriensi, [ Regii Collegii Aberdonensis
alumno. j [Motto from Virgil. ] | Aberdoniae : | excu-
debant Jac. Chalmers et Soc. | Academiae typo-
graphi. | 1808.
8-in. by 7J in. Pp. 8. A prize of 25Z. offered for a Latin ode on the College of Bengal had been awarded to Alexander Adamson, M.A., but Maclachlan was re- quested to print his unsuccessful effort. The Ode reappears in the ' Carminum Liber Unus ' and ' Metrical Effusions ' of 1816. Adamson's Ode was also printed in 1808.
1810. Elegy | on the \ death of | Mr. James Beattie, | Professor of Humanity and Natural History [ in the University and Marischal College,
i Aberdeen. | [Motto from Arthur Johnston.] j By Ewen McLachlan. ! Aberdeen : | printed for the author, j by D. Chalmers and Co. Price 6d. | 1810.
5f in. by 3J in. Pp. 23 + [l]. The Elegy is followed by ' A Dream ' and an ' Ode,' in English, and ' Servator Redivivus ' in Latin all three reappearing in the ' Metrical Effusions.'
1811. Catalogue | of 1 books | belonging to | the Theological Library | of | Marischal College, | Aber- deen. | Aberdeen : | printed by D. Chalmers and Co.
| 1811.
8Jin. by 5J in. Pp. 31 + [1]. Maclachlan was librarian of this library, 1807-11.
1812. MS. transcripts.
" About 1812 the Highland Society commis- sioned Mr. Ewen Maclachlan of Aberdeen to examine the more important of the Gaelic MSS. in their possession. Mr. Maclachlan, in a volume which has been preserved, made a careful and full analysis of 14 MSS., six of those formerly described by Dr. Smith and 8 others, viz. those now cata- logued [as in the Advocates' Library] xxxii., xxxiii., xxxvii., xxxviii., xl., xli., xlvi., liii., liv., lv., Ivi., Iviii., Ixii., and Ixv. Mr. Maclachlan made besides very voluminous transcripts, which he intended, when the tune and opportunity which never came permitted, to publish with trans- lations. Of MS. xxxvii. (the Dean of Lismore's) he has left two transcripts. In a volume which he designated the ' Leabhar Caol ' there is a transcript of the whole of MSS. xlvi. and liii. ; of all the tales in xxxviii. ; of the tale of the Son of Uisneach from Ivi. ; with copious extracts from xl., liv., lv., Ixii., and Ixv. There were no Grammars or Dictionaries of the old language at the time, and so Mr. Maclachlan was unable at all times correctly to extend the contractions of the older MSS. (xl., xlvi., and liii., e.g.) ; but the work which the indefatigable scholar did, though now apt to be forgotten, was most valuable and important." Prof. Mackinnnon on 'The Scottish Collection of Gaelic MSS.,' read before the Gaelic Society of Inverness, 7 May, 1890 (Transactions, xvi. 307-8).
1813. 'H TOV | ^OfMtjpov 'IA.6as. | Honieri Ilias. | Interpretatio Latina adjecta est | ex editione
8. Clarke. j Vol. I. (II.) | Abredoniffi : | e prelo academico. | Veneunt apud A. Brown, Aberdon. ; et Longman, ! Hurst, Rees, Orme, et Brown, L-inclin. | 1813.
6in. by 4 in. Pp. [2]-f216 [Greek] +
155 + [1, Latin version]; ([2] + 233 + [l,
Greek] + 166 [Latin version]). Edited by
Maclachlan.
1813. A | choice collection | of | Gaelic poems, | with the | third book of Homer's Iliad, j trans- lated into Gaelic ; | to which are added | Gal- gacus's speech to the Caledo- | nians, j Pyrrhus and Fabritius, etc. | Edinburgh : | Printed by C. Stewart. | Sold by D. Thomson, Greenock, ; J. Young and Co. Inverness, and D. Peat, Perth. j 1813. [Gaelic title-page on next leaf.]
e^in. by 4 in. Pp. 4 + 216. The 'Collec- tion ' includes several items reprinted from the 'Grain' of 1790, together with, in 17 stanzas on pp. 122-6, " Marb-rann do'n Ard - Urrumach Mr. Seumas Beattie, Fear- teagaisg Can'ain, 's nan Eolus nadurra, ann an Aoltigh Uir-Obairreadhain, a chao- chail sa Mhadainn Diardaoin, an 4 amh, la do'n ochdamh mios 1810 : le E. McL.," The ' Marb-rann ' was written before the English ' Elegy ' of 1810 : see foot-note on p. 8 of the latter. It was reprinted in Dr. Norman Macleod's ' Co-chruinneachadh ' of 1828, and ' Leabhar nan cnoc ' of 1834 ; also in Mackenzie's ' Beauties ' of 1841 : see infra. Pp. 187-208 contain " An treas duan de Sgeulachd na Troidhe air a thionndadh o Greugais Homeir, gu Gailig abraich. Le h-Eobhon MacLachainn." See an appre- ciation of this translation by the Rev. A. C. Sutherland in The Celtic Magazine for January, 1881.
1816. Eveni Lachlanidse, | Abriensis, | carminum liber unus. | [Motto from Virgil.] | Abredonise : | excudebant D. Chahners et Soc. | Acad. topograph. | 1816.
6f in. by 4J in. Pp. [4] + 3-33+[5]. Dedi- cated " Discipulis perdilectis."
1816. Metrical effusions, | on a | variety of sub- jects. | [Motto from Ovid.] | The second edition, | enlarged and improved. | By | Ewen Maclachlan, A.M., teacher of the Grammar School, | Old Aber- deen. | Aberdeen : | printed by D. Chalmers and Co. | 1816.
7 Jin. by 4Hn. Pp. viu + 276. The first edition was the ' Attempts in Verse ' of 1807. Pp. 1-37 reproduce the " Carminum liber unus : editio altera, priore emendatior." The copy of the ' Effusions ' in Aberdeen University Library bears on the initial fly- leaf the inscription in the author's hand- writing :
" Almse suae Matri in observantiae tesseram hunc libellum donavit Auctor, beneficiorum pristi- norum non penitus immemor. Cal. Januar. 1817."
1816. An original collection | of the | poems of Ossian, | Orrann, UUn, | and other bards, | who nourished in the same age. | Collected and edited by | Hugh and John McCallum. | Montrose : j printed at the Review newspaper office. | for the editors, | by James Watt, bookseller, | 1810.
