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Printed by Alexander Gardner, Paisley
Alexander Gardner
Publisher
and Bookseller
By
Special Appointment To
her late Majesty
Queen Victoria.
Children’s Rhymes, Games, Songs, and Stories
“If there is any more entertaining book for juveniles who ‘want to know’ than Mr. Robert Ford’s Children’s Rhymes, Children’s Games, Children’s Songs, Children’s Stories, we have not yet made its acquaintance. The title is descriptive, as few titles are, of the unusual range of the book, which, be it said, will probably be read with as much zest by ‘big folk’ as by bairns.”
—Glasgow Herald.
“The volume partakes of the character both of a book of folk-lore, a children’s story book, and a book of humour: and it will be highly appreciated on all these grounds, and not least on the close sympathy with the children’s ideas, tastes, and point of view which Mr. Ford blends with an intimate knowledge of the traditional sports and rhymes, fascinating even where they are meaningless, of childhood.”—Scotsman.
“This man Ford has his heart in the right place. He loves the children, and a man who loves children is on the way to heaven. The volume is described on the title-page as ‘A Book for Bairns and Big Folk,’ and no better description of it could be invented, for, while it must be interesting to the young people, it cannot fail to touch chords, perhaps long forgotten, in men and women who have left their youth behind them.”—Daily Record and Mail.
“The volume is a perfect mine for those in search of stories about children. Parents will find within its pages much that will fascinate and amuse them.”—Dundee Courier.
“Taken as a finished work, it is well done. The most harassed man of middle-age will turn over the pages with delight and have dreams of half-forgotten yore.”—Glasgow Evening Citizen.
“A very interesting little book, carefully made—a good one for students of folk-lore as well as children.”—Athenæum.
“Altogether we have here a delightful book.”—Evening Times.
Thistledown. A Book of Scotch Humour, Character, Folk-Lore, Story, and Anecdote. New, Enlarged, and Illustrated Edition. Price 3s. 6d. Cheap Edition, illustrated paper covers, price 1s. nett.
Popular English Readings. From Sir F. H. Doyle, G. A. Sala, Samuel K. Cowan, Robert Overton, Tom Hood, Charles Dickens, W. S. Gilbert, E. B. Browning, James Payn, Wilkie Collins, George R. Sims, Douglas Jerrold, Lord Lytton, &c., &c.
Popular Scotch Readings. From Buchanan, Barrie, W. Graham, LL.D., “John Strathesk,” Outram, Lochore, “J. B. Selkirk,” Willock, Latto, Ford, Professor Aytoun, Rev. David Macrae, &c., &c.
Popular Irish Readings. From J. Gilkison, Archibald M’Connochie, Father Ryan, Samuel Lover, Charles Lever, J. S. Lefanu, G. Griffin, T. C. Croker, &c., &c.
Popular American Readings. From T. C. Harbaugh, Bret Harte, Will Carleton, Sam Davis, “Max Adeler,” “Mark Twain,” “Mozis Addums,” Col. John Hay, J. M. Bailey, “Wyoming Kit,” Oliver W. Holmes, &c., &c.
The Harp of Perthshire. A Collection of Songs and other Poetical Pieces, many of which are Original. With Notes Explanatory, Critical, and Biographical.
“Perthshire men, and others than they, will be grateful to have all the varied streams of song brought within the compass of a single volume. Mr. Ford has compiled the book with evident love for his task, and has been at pains in preparing critical notes on Perthshire poems and biographical notices of Perthshire poets.”
—Scotsman.
Ballads of Bairnhood. Selected and Edited, with Notes, by Robert Ford. Uniform with above. 5s.
The Paisley Shawl and the Men who Produced It. A Record of an Interesting Epoch in the History of the Town. With 10 facsimile Reproductions in Colours of Paisley Shawls, and numerous other Illustrations, including portraits of the leading Manufacturers and Public Men of the time. By Matthew Blair, Chairman of the Incorporated Weaving, Dyeing, and Printing College of Glasgow. Crown 410, Art Liner Binding, Gilt Top. Price 75. 6d. nett.
The Weavers’ Craft; being a History of the Weavers’ Incorporation of Dunfermline. By Daniel Thomson. 38 Illustrations. Fcap. 4to. 380 pp. 5s. nett.
Scottish Chapbook Literature. By William Harvey. With Illustrations. Fcap. 4to. 150 pages. Price 3s. 6d. nett.
“Deserving of careful perusal: fresh, suggestive, and evidently founded on experience.”—Sir Joshua Fitch, LL.D.
“Teaching by the living voice, as here advocated, is by far the best way, and I hope it will be more and more in use.”—Rev. Prof. Skeat, LL.D., Cambridge.
“Better reading than nine novels out of ten.”
—Daily News.
“An interesting record of a useful and honourable life.”
—Glasgow Herald.
“A volume that affords a vast amount of entertainment.... The work is a genuine autobiography.”
—Glasgow Evening Citizen.
“A book that for interest and genuine worth is equal to any of the lines penned by Mr. Samuel Smiles, is The Autobiography of Peter Taylor, just issued by Mr. Gardner of Paisley. It is the story of a self-made man, related in no boastful spirit, but abounding with homely touches and delightful reminiscences.... It is a most notable little book, abounding with capital stories, the pawky humour of which will be hugely relished.”
—Dundee Courier.
Selections from the British Apollo; containing Answers to Curious Questions in Literature, Science, Folk-Lore, and Love. Performed by a Society of Gentlemen in the Reign of Queen Anne. A Study in the Evolution of Periodical Literature. Edited by the late G. W. Niven, Honorary Secretary, Greenock Natural History Society; with Preface by the Rev. Hugh Macmillan, D.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E., F.S.A. (Scot.). Crown 8vo. Cloth extra. 300 pages. Price 33. 6d. nett.
History of the Outer Hebrides. By Wm C. Mackenzie. With a Chapter on the Physical Features and Natural History of the Group, by Rev. Wm. Morrison, of Carr-Bridge. Price 12s 6d. nett; also 100 copies on superior paper, leather back, gilt top, price 21s. nett.
Two Parish Histories. Uniform with “Historical and Archæological Collections relating to Rentrewshire.”
Kilbarchan Parish, History of. By Robert D. MacKenzie, Minister of the Parish. Numerous Illustrations. Demy 4to, 21s. nett. Large Paper, Royal 4to 35s. nett.
Notes on the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Eastwood Parish. By the Rev. George Campbell, Minister of the Parish. Demy 4to, 12s. 6d. nett. Large Paper, Royal 4to, 25s. nett.
Charters and Documents relating to the Burgh of Paisley, with Extracts from the Town Council Records. By W. M. Metcalfe, D.D. Crown 410. 21s. nett.
“It is a carefully executed work, comprehensive in the best sense, and bringing the story down to the great act of union which was celebrated in October last, when the United Presbyterian and the Free Churches became one United Free Church of Scotland. Mr. Macpherson has put much conscientious labour into the making of this volume, in which a large historical literature is admirably digested. The generous spirit of the writer should secure a wide acceptance of the book in all circles in Scotland and out.”
—The Christian.
“This large and handsome volume aims at giving a comprehensive account of ecclesiastical and religious movements in Scotland from the original planting of Christianity down to the close of the nineteenth century. To this great task the author has brought adequate knowledge, sound judgment and conspicuous fairness. His style, while always lucid, is yet sufficiently graphic and forceful. This great work supplies a long-felt want, and should have a large sale. The publisher has done his part admirably.”
—Primitive Methodist.
“The characters sketched by Mr. Gilroy are indeed remarkable, and his book is more valuable than scores of novels. ‘A Captive of His Bow and Spear’ is a charming love-story.”
—Glasgow Herald.
Only 150 Copies Printed for Private Sale.
Scotland Sixty Years Ago: a Series of Thirty-two Fine Copperplate Etchings of the Chief Towns of Scotland and their Surroundings. In One Magnificent Double Super-Royal Folio Volume, Half-bound. Printed on Finest Plate Paper. Price £5 5s. to Subscribers.
List of Plates.—Glasgow, Aberdeen, Aberdeen (from the South), Cromarty, Falkirk, Dumbarton, Forfar, Gretna Green, Dunkeld, Greenock, Hamilton, Dingwall, Inverness, Jedburgh, Renfrew, Tain, Edinburgh, Elgin, Dundee, Lanark, Inveraray, Montrose, Linlithgow, Melrose, Peebles, Perth, Port-Glasgow, Peterhead, St. Andrews, Stirling, Rothesay, Paisley.
Practical First Aid. By William Robertson, M.D., D.P.H., Lecturer to the St. Andrew and St. John Ambulance Associations. 40 Illustrations. Third Edition, 1s. 6d. nett.
SS. Ninian and Machor—the Legends of, in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century. Revised Text, with Introduction, Notes, Glossarial Index, and Appendices containing Translations of S. Ailred’s Life of S. Ninian and O’Donell’s Account of S. Machor, by W. M. Metcalfe, D.D. Very Limited Issue. [In the Press.
“Dr. Mitchell has undoubtedly fulfilled his own ambition, and produced the best and handiest history of the Highlands that has ever seen the light... He is not given to wild theories. He represents the Highlands and the Highlanders as they actually seem to him, not as he would like them to be.”
—Spectator.
Complete in Four Volumes.
Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Orally Collected, with a Translation By the late J. F. Campbell, Islay.
IN 4 VOLUMES. 500 PAGES EACH.
The Editions are— 1. The Ordinary Edition, in Demy Octavo. £4 4s. 2. The Same Edition, in Half-crimson Calf Extra. £5 5s. 3. The Large Paper Edition, in Royal 8vo, Roxburgh Binding. £6 6s.
The History of Civilisation in Scotland. By John Mackintosh, LL.D.
“The book has already taken a definite place as a monument of learning and patient patriotic industry,”
—Glasgow Herald.
“One has only praise, and that of the heartiest, for the sense of patriotism and the religious devotion that prompted the book, and for the spiritual insight of many of the little notes and comments that are appended at the foot of its pages.”
—Scotsman.
Epigraph
‘befel’ replaced by ‘befell,’ which appears in the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary.