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THE ORIGIN OF DEAN RAMSAY'S CELEBRATED REMINISCENCES OF SCOTTISH LIFE - RAMSAY, E[dward] B[annerman]
Two lectures on some changes in social life and habits.    Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas,  1857  8vo, (vi) + 108pp, original maroon cloth with simple spine lettering, faded. A very good copy.

First edition.

Dean Ramsay's principal work, and the one on which his literary reputation rests, was his 'Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character' (1858) which had had its origin in the 'Two Lectures', published here, which had been delivered in Ulster Hall, Edinburgh, in 1857. ''The book has been recognised as the best collection of Scottish stories and one of the best answers to the charge of want of humour made by Sydney Smith against the Scots''. [Aeneas Mackay in DNB]. The two lectures here were: ''On some of the Changes which have taken place in the Manners and Habits of Scotland during the last Fifty Years'', and ''On the Social and Moral Influences of the Iron Road''. This last essay is a marvellously human excursion into the changes that have been brought about by rail travel. His purpose he confesses is a limited one - "that is, to point out such moral changes as railway travelling has wrought upon the surface of society - to mark how it has altered former and long established habits - what old associations it has broken up, what new ones it has introduced into the social system".

Keywords :- Scotland, railways, social life
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