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1819. [Miller (James).] Verses in memory of Dunbar Collegiate Church. Edinburgh Oliver & Boyd [J. Miller, printer, Haddington]. 1819. 8vo, iv +40 pp. Anonymous. Reprinted in 'St. Baldred of the Bass,' Edinb., 1824. Halkett and Laing's Dictionary' and the Advocates' Library (Edinburgh) Catalogue give George Miller as the author. Not in B.M., and not in Mr. Unwin's collection: title and description are taken from copy in the Advocates' Library.

1820. [Miller (James).] The luckless drave, and other poems. By the author of Verses in memory of Dunbar Collegiate Church.' Edinburgh: William Laing, South Bridge; and Macredie and Co. Princes-street. 1820. [Printed by J. Miller, Haddington.] 8vo, 72 pp. [Original paper covers. "With anecdotes of the witches of East Lothian.-Price 2s. 6d."] Anonymous. Contents: (1) The luckless drave; notes. (2) Wreck of the John and Agnes. (3) Shepherd of Lammermoor; notes. (4) Shepherd's song. (5) Mad woman's song. (6) Additional gleanings of witchcraft. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are reprinted in St. Baldred of the Bass,' Edinb., 1824. Halkett and Laing's Dictionary' gives George Miller of Dunbar as the author.

1821. [Miller (George).] The affecting history of Tom Bragwell, an unhappy young man.... with some account of his companions in iniquity; wherein, are strikingly delineated the rise, progress, and fatal termination of juvenile delinquency....Humbly recommended to the serious attention of youth, as well as to the consideration of all parents, guardians, teachers, masters, and heads of families....Haddington: printed.... by James Miller, for George Miller, Dunbar, by whom the trade will be supplied....Sold, in London, by Darton & Harvey, Gracechurch Street. 1821. 12mo, xii+200 pp. [With frontispiece.] Not in B.M.

The authorship is indicated on the title-page and in the text of Latter Struggles,' 1833.

1824. Miller (James). St. Baldred of the Bass, a Pictish legend; The siege of Berwick, a tragedy; with other poems and ballads, founded on the local traditions of East Lothian and Berwickshire. Edinburgh: sold by Oliver & Boyd, TweeddaleCourt; and Geo. B. Whittaker, London. [Printed by Oliver & Boyd.] 1824. 8vo, viii+416 pp. B.M. 11643. 1. 8.

The frontispiece is drawn and engraved by W. H. Lizars.

1826. [Miller (George).] Popular philosophy: or, the book of nature laid open upon Christian principles, and agreeably to the lights of modern science, and the progress of new discovery: being a new, improved, and much enlarged edition of 'The book of Nature laid open, in a cursory and popular survey of several striking facts in Natural History, and in the Phenomena and Constitution of the Universe.'....By the editor of The Cheap Magazine,' and Monthly Monitor. Printed for and published by G. Miller, Dunbar....[Haddington: printed by James

Miller.] 1826. 2 vols. 12mo. Vol. I. xil +314 pp. with frontispiece. Vol. II. vi+316 pp. with frontispiece.

Each volume has its own index, "The Book of Nature Laid Open,' &c. was first The Cheap Magazine, vol. ii.], which the printed in a small periodical publication author published, and conducted as editor, in 1814."-Vol. I. preface, v.

With

1830. Miller (James). The history of Dunbar, from the earliest records to the present period : with a description of the ancient castles and pic turesque scenery on the borders of East Lothian, Published by William Miller, Dunbar, and sold by J. Miller, and G. Neill, Haddington. [Printed 12mo. Miller.] 1830. by J. vignette half-title, iv+292 pp. B.M. 10370. bbb. 17. 1833. Miller (George). Latter struggles in the journey of life; or, the afternoon of my days: comprehending chiefly, the period between my forty-fifth, and the end of my sixtieth year, being the fourth book of my pilgrimage: from, the retrospections of a sexagenarian: in which.... will be found delineated....some of the most important lessons and sublime maxims of our Christian philosophy; not in examples drawn from fictitious representations; or imaginary characters, existing only in the regions of fancy and romance; but from the incidents, and every day occurrences, of the latter, and most unfortunate part of the real life of a country bookseller .... Edinburgh :-printed by Colston, for the author, George Miller, of Dunbar, East, Lothian....1833. Svo, 406 pp., and 2 pp. of abridged testimonials, as Appendix. B.M. 4902, g. 11, and another copy, 10825, dd. 12.

James

1836. Miller (James). Verses to Lord Ramsay on his marriage with Lady Susan Hay. Edinburgh printed by Ballantyne and Company, Paul's Work, Canongate. MDCCCXXXVI. 40 pp. [Original paper covers.] Not in B.M. James Andrew Ramsay, Lord Ramsay, afterwards 10th Earl and 1st Marquis of Dalhousie, born 22 April, 1812; died 19 Dec., 1860. Governor-General of India and

greatest of Indian Proconsuls." Lady Susan Hay, 1st daughter of 8th Marquis of Tweeddale, born 13 March, 1817, died on board ship while she was returning homo from India, 6 May, 1853.

1841. Miller (James). Elegiac verses in memory of general, the right honourable the Earl of Dalhousie, G.C.B. Robert Ferguson, Esq. of Raith, M.P. and other eminent men connected with East Lothian. Edinburgh: printed by A. Turnbull and Co. High Street. MDCCCXLI. 8vo, iv+36 pp. [Original paper covers : Price one shilling and sixpence."]

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This collected edition is not in B.M., d. 81. contains, however,-1414. (5.)Elegiac Verses in memory of R. Ferguson .Lord Lieutenant of Fifeshire,' 8vo, PP. 16, A. Turnbull & Co., Edinburgh, 1841. The copious notes give biographical details of the persons mentioned in the verses.

1844. Miller (James). The Lamp of Lothian; or, the history of Haddington, in connection with the public affairs of East Lothian and of Scotland, from the earliest records to the present period. Haddington: printed and published by James Allan, and sold by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. 1844. 8vo, 528 pp. Not in B.M.

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Every type of it ['The Lamp of Lothian'] was set up and every correction-preparatory to printing off the sheets-was performed by the author's own hand."- Biographical Sketch' prefixed to edition of 1900, p. xix. A note on Printing in East Lothian' is given, p. 525. The book is regarded as a standard history of Haddington.

1859. Miller (James). The history of Dunbar, from the earliest records to the present time. Dunbar : printed and published by James Downie. MDCCCLIX. 8vo. With frontispiece, vignette half-title, and illustration p. 211. 320 pp. 1900. Miller (James). The Lamp of Lothian; or the history of Haddington....from the earliest records to 1844. New edition, with biographical sketch of the author. Haddington: printed and published by William Sinclair. 1900. small 4to, xxxii+236 pp.

The Biographical Sketch' is by Mr. Thomas Cowan, stationer, Haddington. There is also a prefatory note by Dr. Wallace-James.

The list may conclude with a book in the Miller Collection, but not by either father

or son :

1819. Mercer (Andrew)." Dunfermline Abbey; a poem. With historical notes and illustrations Dunfermline: printed and sold by J. Miller ..1819. 12mo, xii+184 pp.

The printer and publisher, John Miller (died March, 1852, aged 74), was half-brother to George Miller of Dunbar : see the MS. Notes on the Miller Family,' and Bibliography of Works relating to Dunfermline and W. of Fife,' by Erskine Beveridge, 1901. p. xvii.

Additions to this bibliography, and information with regard to the Miller family,

are invited.

T. F. U.

THOMAS PAINE'S REMAINS. THOMAS PAINE, who, students now admit, was joint author of the American Declaration of Independence, died on 8 June, 1809, near New Rochelle in the State of New York. He expressed in his will the earnest desire to be interred in the Quaker burial-ground at New York, but although he believed in the Deity and in a future life, his general theological opinions did not accord with those of the Friends, and they refused sepulture. His body was accordingly interred in a field on his own farm, near New Rochelle. Shortly after the funeral, fanatical mob invaded the farm, armed with

a

pickaxes and hammers, and smashed his A friend of Paine afterwards gravestone.

rode to the spot, and took away the largest fragment of the marble stone that he could find.

About September, 1819, William Cobbett disinterred the remains, in the vain hope that they would receive in Paine's native land a public funeral befitting his talents. The exhumation is recorded in Cobbett's Register, vol. xxxv. p. 382, in a note written by Cobbett from Long Island. On 21 Nov., 1819, Cobbett landed in Liverpool with the coffin containing the remains, and then presented to his friend and co-Reformer, Edward Rushton, a fragment of the gravestone. It is almost certain that this is the fragment taken away by the friend previously mentioned. I had a photograph taken of the stone in June, and a tape measure taken therewith shows that the fragment is about 1 ft. 7 in. in width, about 11 in. in its greatest height, and some 3 in. thick. The inscription is as follows::

THOM

Author of common Died June 8th 18 Aged 74 Years.

Edward Rushton, the prominent Liverpool Radical, was a friend of Brougham, Canning, Campbell the poet, and O'Connell, and very intimate with Thackeray, whom he induced to write Vanity Fair.' Rushton became and died in 1851. The stone then passed Stipendiary Magistrate of Liverpool in 1831, into the custody of his son Wm. Lowes Rushton, the Shaksperian scholar, who died in March last in his eighty-third year. His aged widow, who resides in Liverpool, had to ransack the house in order to find the relic, a fact which made me regret that it is not preserved in some public building, The authenticity of the stone is vouched for by Wm. Lowes Rushton in his book Letters of a Templar' (Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1903).

To return to the history of the actual remains, I find the following in a rare pamphlet entitled 'A Brief History of the Remains of the late Thomas Paine, down to 1846' (London, J. P. Watson, 3, Queen's Head Passage, 1847). Cobbett occupied Normandy Farm, near Farnham, Surrey, and died there on 18 June, 1835, having piously preserved the remains in a large trunk, awaiting the funeral pageant which never came. Within a month of Cobbett's death, his son was sued for debts with which the elder Cobbett had nothing to do, and all the son's household effects (including