REMINISCENCES OF SCOTTISH LIFE AND CHARACTER. By Dean Ramsay.

ND [c.1911] new edition. Ppii,vi,387. Tipped-in colour illustrations from watercolour drawings by Henry W. Kerr, top edge gilt. Brown buckram, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

"The demand for a twenty-second edition of a volume of 'Scottish Reminiscences' embracing subjects which are necessarily of a limited and local character - a demand which has taken place during the course of little more than fifteen years since its first publication - proves, I think, the correctness of the idea upon which it was first undertaken - viz. that it should depict a phase of national manners which was fast passing away, and thus in however humble a department, contribute something to the materials of history, by exhibiting social customs and habits of thought which at a particular era were characteristic of a race". Very good tipped-in colour illustrations from paintings by Henry W. Kerr. Chapters include: Introductory; Scottish religious feelings and observances; On old Scottish conviviality; On the old Scottish domestic servant; Scottish judges; On humour proceeding from Scottish expressions, including Scottish proverbs; On Scottish stories of wit and humour; Conclusions.