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semblage of Poetic Graces, did our space allow us the gratification; but we must restrict ourselves to the scanty limits of a sonnet-extract, amid many more extended attractions. Yet we ought not to close this brief report, without expressing our cordial conviction, that if suavity of sentiment, or elegance of expression, should allure any reader to peruse these polished strains with the attention which they merit, such reader must be highly profited, as well as pleased by the employ."—Monthly Mirror for June 1802.
"The Verses display in general a mind of elegant turn, long habituated to the association of poetical images, and sufficiently exercised in the construction of harmonious measure. There are few Poems which we might not produce as specimens, without any injustice to the Author."—British Critic for August 1802.
7. EPISTLE FROM LADY GRANGE TO EDWARD D———, Esq. written during her confinement in the Island of St. Kilda, 4to.—Price 2s. sewed.
"After dinner to-day we talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange's being sent to St. Kilda, and confined there, without any means of relief.
"The true story of this lady is as frightfully romantic as if it had been the fiction of a gloomy fancy. She was the wife of one of the Lords of Session in Scotland, a man of the first blood of his country.
"For some mysterious reasons, which have never been discovered, she was seized, and carried off in the dark, she knew not by whom, and by nightly journies was conveyed to the Highland shores, from whence she was transported by sea to the remote rock of St. Kilda, where she remained amongst its few wild inhabitants, a forlorn prisoner, but had a constant supply of provisions, and a woman to wait upon her.
"No inquiry was made after her, till she at last found means to convey a letter to a confidential friend, by the daughter of a catechist, who concealed it in a clue of yarn. Information being thus obtained at Edinburgh, a ship was sent to bring her off; but intelligence of this being received, she was carried to MʻLeod's island of Herries, where she died."—Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, p. 277. Edit. 1786.
8. MARY STEWART, QUEEN OF SCOTS, an Historical Drama, 8vo.—Price 4s. sewed.
