MURRAY AND GIBB, EDINBURGH,

PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

GEMS OF LITERATURE

ELEGANT, RARE, AND SUGGESTIVE

"We should make the same use of a book that the bce does of a flower:
she steals sweets from it, but cannot injure it."-Colton.

EDINBURGH:
WILLIAM P. NIM MO.
1872.