George Buchanan

About this eBook

Author

Smith, John Campbell, 1828-1914

Credits

Produced by Fay Dunn, sp1nd and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Buchanan, George, 1506-1582

Category

Text

eBook-No.

45427

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45427

Release Date

April 17, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.GEORGE BUCHANAN
2. 2.FAMOUS SCOTS SERIES
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.CHAPTER II — Begging Letter-Writer — No Notoriety Hunter
8. 8.CHAPTER III — Did not seek power — Sir James Melville backs Scaliger — A Faithful Mentor
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — A Stoic Philosopher — Alleged Vindictiveness — Not so Facile — ‘ Gud Religion ’
10. 10.CHAPTER V — Not a Zealot — Silent Doubt — Renaissance Morals
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — Earlier and Continental
12. 12.EPILOGISTIC
13. 13.FOOTNOTES
14. 14.INDEX
15. 15.OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE ‘FAMOUS SCOTS’ SERIES. — Of THOMAS CARLYLE, by H. C. Macpherson , — The British Weekly says:— — The Literary World says:— — The Scotsman says:— — The Glasgow Daily Record says:— — The Educational News says:— — Of ALLAN RAMSAY, by Oliphant Smeaton , — The Scotsman says:— — The People’s Friend says:— — The Edinburgh Dispatch says:— — The Daily Record says:— — The Glasgow Herald says:— — Of HUGH MILLER, by W. Keith Leask , — The Expository Times says:— — The Bookseller says:— — The Daily News says:— — Of JOHN KNOX, by A. Taylor Innes , — Mr. Hay Fleming, in The Bookman says:— — The Freeman says:— — The Speaker says:— — The Sunday School Chronicle says:— — Of ROBERT BURNS, by Gabriel Setoun , — The New Age says:— — The Methodist Times says:— — Youth says:— — Of THE BALLADISTS, by John Geddie , — The Birmingham Daily Gazette says:— — The Publishers’ Circular says:— — The New Age says:— — The Spectator says:— — Of RICHARD CAMERON, by Professor Herkless , — The Freeman says:— — The Christian News says:— — The Dundee Courier says:— — Of SIR JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON, by Eve Blantyre Simpson , — The Speaker says:— — The Daily Chronicle says:— — The Leeds Mercury says:— — Of THOMAS CHALMERS, by W. Garden Blaikie , — The Spectator says:— — The Scottish Congregationalist says:— — Of JAMES BOSWELL, by W. Keith Leask , — The Spectator says:— — The Dundee Advertiser says:— — The Morning Leader says:— — Of TOBIAS SMOLLETT, by Oliphant Smeaton , — The Dundee Courier says:— — The Weekly Scotsman says:— — The Newsagent and Booksellers’ Review says:— — Of FLETCHER OF SALTOUN, by W. G. T. Omond , — The Edinburgh Evening News says:— — The Leeds Mercury says:— — The Speaker says:— — Of THE BLACKWOOD GROUP, by Sir George Douglas , — The Scotsman says:— — The Weekly Citizen says:— — Of NORMAN MACLEOD, by John Wellwood , — The Star says:— — The Scots Pictorial says:— — The Daily Free Press says:— — The Daily Chronicle says:— — Of SIR WALTER SCOTT, by George Saintsbury , — The Pall Mall Gazette says:— — The Morning Leader says:— — The St. James’s Gazette says:— — The Scots Magazine says:— — Of KIRKCALDY OF GRANGE, by Louis A. Barbé , — The Scotsman says:— — The Glasgow Herald says:— — The Speaker says:— — The Bookseller says:— — Of ROBERT FERGUSSON, by Dr. A. B. Grosart , — The Westminster Gazette says:— — The British Weekly says:— — The North British Daily Mail says:— — The Weekly Scotsman says:— — Of JAMES THOMSON, by William Bayne , — The Daily News says:— — Literature says:— — The Publishers’ Circular says:— — The Spectator says:— — Of MUNGO PARK, by T. Banks Maclachlan , — The Leeds Mercury says:— — The Speaker says:— — The Kilmarnock Herald says:— — The Educational News says:— — Of DAVID HUME, by Henry Calderwood , — The Speaker says:— — The New Age says:— — The Scotsman says:— — The Publishers’ Circular says:— — Of WILLIAM DUNBAR, by Oliphant Smeaton , — The Speaker says:— — The Glasgow Herald says:— — The Bailie says:— — The Bookman says:— — Of SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, by Professor Murison , — The Speaker says:— — Mr. William Wallace in the Academy says:— — The Daily News says:— — The Pall Mall Gazette says:— — The New Age says:— — Of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by Margaret Moyes Black , — The Banffshire Journal says:— — The Bookman says:— — The Speaker says:— — The Outlook says:— — The Daily Free Press says:— — Of THOMAS REID, by Professor Campbell Fraser , — The North British Daily Mail says:— — The Scotsman says:— — The Glasgow Herald says:— — The Pall Mall Gazette says:— — The Saturday Review says:— — Of POLLOK AND AYTOUN, by Rosaline Masson , — The Spectator says:— — The Glasgow Herald says:— — Of ADAM SMITH, by Hector C. Macpherson , — The Speaker says:— — The Echo says:— — The Scots Pictorial says:— — Mr. Herbert Spencer says:— — The Glasgow Herald says:— — Of ANDREW MELVILLE, by William Morison , — The Spectator says:— — The Speaker says:— — The North British Daily Mail says:— — The British Weekly says:— — The Academy says:— — Of JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER, by E. S. Haldane , — The Scotsman says:— — The Pall Mall Gazette says:— — Of KING ROBERT THE BRUCE, by Professor Murison , — The Morning Leader says:— — The Aberdeen Journal says:— — The Leeds Mercury says:— — The Speaker says:— — The Morning Leader says:— — Of JAMES HOGG, THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD, by Sir George Douglas , — The Scotsman says:— — The New Age says:— — The Daily News says:— — The Expository Times says:— — Saint Andrew says:— — Of THOMAS CAMPBELL, by J. Cuthbert Hadden , — The Scotsman says:—
16. 16.Transcriber’s Note

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