The designs and ornaments of this volume are by Mr Joseph Brown, and the printing from the press of Messrs Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh.

April 1897.


To
Major-General Sir WILLIAM CROSSMAN, K.C.M.G.,
IN REMEMBRANCE OF HOURS IN TWO LIBRARIES.


THE BLACKWOOD GROUP.

Note—The Ettrick Shepherd and John Gibson Lockhart, conspicuous by their absence from the above list of writers associated with the early days of the publishing-house of Blackwood, will receive attention in forthcoming volumes of the series.