The particulars of succeeding volumes will be afterwards announced.
[PRESS OPINIONS.]
EARLY SCOTTISH POETRY.
A good service is being done to Scottish literature by Mr. Eyre-Todd in his “Abbotsford Series” of reprints. His introductory essays show learning, insight, and critical ability, while the discrimination exercised in his treatment of the text is excellent.—A valuable acquisition to the student’s library.—Daily Chronicle.
Should possess great interest for all lovers of poetry. The volume fills what appears to be a gap in the ranks of our published books of to-day.—Graphic.
The first instalment of the Abbotsford Series is full of promise.—Athenæum.
What Mr. Eyre-Todd has undertaken has been carried out in a manner deserving of the highest praise. Such a beginning promises well for this “Abbotsford Series,” which, when the volumes already announced have appeared, will have gone a long way towards supplying a “comprehensive library of the Poetry of Scotland.”—Glasgow Herald.
This first volume will be welcomed as a praiseworthy effort to open up what is to all but scholars a new field of literary interest.—British Weekly.
It is a gratifying sign of the interest still taken in our early poetry that an attempt is made in so praiseworthy a form as this to attract a wider circle of readers to their study.... Everyone who has the best interests of literature at heart will wish them success.—Scotsman.