The Demagogue
A Poem, sacred to the Memory of His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of
Wales
Ode on the Duke of York's second departure from England as Rear-Admiral
The Fond Lover. A Ballad
On the Uncommon Scarcity of Poetry in the Gentleman's Magazine for
December last, 1755, by I. W., a sailor
Description of a Ninety-Gun Ship







POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES BEATTIE.





THE LIFE AND POETRY OF JAMES BEATTIE.


James Beattie, the author of the "Minstrel" was born at Laurencekirk, in
the county of Kincardineshire--a village situated in that beautiful
trough of land called the Howe of the Mearns, and surmounted by the
ridge of the Garvock Hills, which divide it from the German Ocean--on
the 25th day of October 1735. His father, who was a small farmer and
shopkeeper, and who is said to have possessed a turn for literature and