Scotland

The Scottish CD contains the full text of 332 books, covering history, literature, religion, philosophy, and science. The literature includes periodicals (The Edinburgh Review and the Chambers Edinburgh Review) and such authors as Boswell, Burns, Carlyle, De Quincey, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lang, Saki, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. It also includes the 2007 CIA World Factbook.

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Table of Contents

Context of the contemporary world

• The 2007 CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

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History of Scotland

• Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, volume 2 = England, beginning at Duke William of Normandy (the Conqueror)
• part 1 of 12
• part 2 of 12
• part 3 of 12
• part 4 of 12
• part 5 of 12
• part 6 of 12
• Lauder of Fountainball's Journals 1665-1676 by Sir John Lauder
• The Life of Colonel James Gardiner who was slain at the Battle of Prectonpaus, Sept. 21, 1745 by P. Doddridge
• Lost Leaders by Andrew Lang
• An Outline of the Relations Between England and Scotland, 540-1707 by Robert Rait
• Scotland's Mark on America by George Black
• A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang
• Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland,
• volume 22
• volume 23
• volume 24

Historical Fiction about Scotland, written by non-Scottish authors

• The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1776-1850)
• Scottish Sketches [short story] by Amelia Barr

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Scottish Religion

Presbyterianism

• The Auchensbaugh Renovation, 1880
• Samuel Rutherford and Some of His Correspondents (1600-1661)
• Sketches of the Covenanters by J.C. MacFeeters
• The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women by John Knox, originally published in 1558, edition of 1878
• Act, Declaration and Testimony for the Whole of Our Covenanted Reformation 1628-1649
• The Golden Calf by John Helvetius, 1666
• John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang

David Livingstone (1813-1873)

How I Found Livingstone by Henry M. Stanley

The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, 1865 to His Death

volume 1

volume 2

Missionary Travels and Researches in Souith Africa by David Livingstone

The Personal Life of David Livingstone by W. Garden Blaikie

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambezi by David Livingstone

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Scottish Philosophy

David Hume

• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, from the posthumous edition of 1777
• The History of England, volume 1
• Principles of Morals
• Treatise of Human Nature

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Scottish Science

Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

• The Antiquity of Man
• The Student's Elements of Geology

James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

• James Nasmyth: Engineer, an Autobiography edited by Samuel Smiles

Mungo Park (1771-1806)

• Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
• Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in 1805
• Travels in the Interior of Africa
• Volume 1

Volume 2

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Scottish Literature

General, Folklore, and Anonymous

• Eskdale Herd-Boy, a Scottish Tale by Mrs. Blackford
• Folk Lore or Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland by James Napier
• Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland by W.W. Gibbings
• Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland by James MacPherson (includes "Ossian")
• Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Othere Poems by W.E. Aytoun
• Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
• Stories of the Border Marches by John and Jean Lang
• Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland
• volume 22
• volume 23
• volume 24

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Periodicals

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

• January 1843
• Febuary 1843
• March 1843
• April 1843
• May 1843
• June 1843
• July 1843
• September 1843
• November 1843
• January 1844
• February 1844
• March 1844
• April 1844
• July 1844
• August 1844
• Chamber's Edinburgh Journal
• January 3, 1852
• January 10, 1852
• January 17, 1852
• January 24, 1852
• January 31, 1852
• February 7, 1852
• February 14, 1852
• February 28, 1852

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Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894)

• The Coral Island: a Tale of the Pacific Ocean
• The Dog Crusoe and His Master
• Gascoyne the Sandal-Wood Trader
• Snow Flakes and Sunbeams

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James Boswell (1740-1795)

• Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, wirtten by David Malloch (with Andrew Erskine and George Dempster)
• Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
• Life of Johnson (abridged)
• Life of Johnson (unabridged)
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6 (of 6)

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Robert Burns (1759-1796)

• Letters of Robert Burns, edited by J. Jogie Robertson
• Poems and Songs

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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

• Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1834-1872
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Early Kings of Norway
• The French Revolution
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Heroes and Hero Worship
• History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6
• volume 7
• volume 8
• volume 9
• volume 10
• volume 11
• volume 12
• volume 13
• volume 14
• volume 15
• volume 16
• volume 17
• volume 18
• volume 19
• volume 20
• volume 21
• appendix
• Latter-Day Phamplets
• Life of John Sterling
• On the Choice of Books
• Past and Present
• Sartor Resartus
• About Thomas Carlyle
• Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol (1904)

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Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)

• The Avenger
• Biographical Essays
• Confessions of an English Opium Eater
• The English Coach and Joan of Arc
• Memorials and Other Papers, volume 1
• Miscellaneous Essays
• Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, volume 1
• Notebook of an English Opium Eater
• Revolt of the Tartars
• Theological Essays and other Papers, volume 1

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Sir Arthur Conan  Doyle (1859-1930)

• Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (short story)
• Adventure of the Cardboard Box (short story)
• Adventure of the Devil's Foot (short story)
• Adventure of the Dying Detective (short story)
• Adventures of Gerard
• The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (short story)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (short story)
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Beyond the City
• The Captain of the Polestar
• The Doings of Raffles Haw
• A Duet
• The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
• The Firm of Girdlestone
• The Great Boer War
• The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonnic Tales
• The Green Flag
• His Last Bow (short story)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Last Galley Impressions and Tales
• The Lost World
• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
• Micah Clarke
• The Mystery of Cloomber
• Mystery of Sassa Valley (short story)
• The New Revelation
• The Poison Belt
• The Parasite
• The Refugees
• Rodney Stone
• Round the Red Lamp
• The Sign of the Four
• Sir Nigel
• Songs of Action
• The Stark Munro Letters
• Study in Scarlet
• Tales of Terror and Mystery
• The Tragedy of Korosko
• Through the Magic Door
• Uncle Bernac
• The Valley of Fear
• A Visit to Three Fronts
• The Vital Message
• The White Company

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Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

See the Children's Literature CD for Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Blue Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, The Orange Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, Tales of Troy, The Violet Fairy Book, and The Yellow Fairy Book

• Adventures among Books
• Alfred Tennyson
• Angling Sketches
• Aucassin and Nicolete (short story)
• Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (poems)
• Ballads in Blue China (poems)
• Ban and Arriere Ban (poems)
• Books and Bookmen
• Collection of Ballads (poems)
• Custom and Myth
• The Disentanglers
• Essays in Little
• Grass of Parnassus (poems)
• Helen of Troy (long poem)
• The Homeric Hymns, translated by Andrew Lang
• How to Fail in Literature (essay)
• The Iliad (books X-XVI translated by Andrew Lang, the rest by others)
• In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories
• Introduction to the Compleat Angler
• Letters on Literature
• Letters to Dead Authors
• The Library
• Lost Leaders
• The Making of Religion
• The Man in the Iron Mask (short story)
• Modern Mythology
• A Monk of Fife
• Myth, Ritual, and Religion
• New Collected Rhymes (poems)
• The Odyssey (translated by Lang and Butcher)
• Old Friends
• Oxford
• Pickle the Spy, the Incognito of Prince Charles
• The Puzzle of Dickens' Last Plot (essay)
• R.F. Murray, His Poems with a Memoir by Andrew Lang
• Rhymes a la Mode (poems)
• Saint-Germain the Deathless (short story)
• Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
• A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang
• Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy
• Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus (translated by Andrew Lang
• The Valet's Tragedy
• The World's Desire (co-author with H. Rider Haggard)

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George MacDonald (1824-1902)

See Children's Book CD for At the Back of the North Wind, The Light Princess (story), Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, The Princess and the Goblin, Sir Gibbie, St. George and St. Michael, Warlock o' Glenwarlock

• David Elginbrod
• Diary of an Old Soul
• Donal Grant
• England's Antiphon (British religious poetry) (1868)
• A Hidden Life and Other Poems
• Home Again and Elect Lady
• Lilith
• Malcolm
• Marquis of Lossie
• Mary Marston
• Poetical Works of George MacDonald, volume 1
• Robert Falconer
• Thomas Wingfold
• The Tragedie of Hamlet: a Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623
• The Vicar's Daughter
• What's Mine's Mine

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John Muir (1838-1914)

• The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
• The Mountains of California
• Steep Trails: California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon
• Stickeen
• Travels in Alaska
• Yosemite

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Margaret (Wilson) Oliphant (1828-1897)

• A Beleaguered City
• A Little Pilgrim
• The Little Pilgrim: Further Experiences
• Old Lady Mary
• The Open Door and the Portrait

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Sir Walter Raleigh (1861-1922)

• Robert Louis Stevenson by Sir Walter Raleigh
• Style

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Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916)

• Beasts and Superbeasts
• Chronicles of Clovis
• Reginald
• Reginald in Russia
• The Toys of Peace
• The Unbearable Bassington
• When William Came

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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

• The Abbot (sequel to The Monastery)
• The Antiquary
• The Betrothed
• The Black Dwarf
• The Bride of Lammermoor
• Chronicles of the Canongate
• Death of the Laird's Jock (short story)
• The Fair Maid of Perth
• Fortunes of Nigel
• Guy Mannering
• The Heart of Mid-Lothian
• Ivanhoe
• Journals, volume 1
• Kenilworth
• The Lady of the Lake
• The Legend of Montrose
• Letters on Demonolo
• My Aunt Margaret's Mirror (short story)
• Marmion: a Tale of Floddin Field
• Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
• volume 1 of 3
• volume 2 of 3
• The Monastery
• Old Mortality
• Peveril of the Peak
• Quentin Durward
• Redgauntlet
• Rob Roy
• The Surgeon's Daughter
• The Talisman
• The Tapestried Chamber (short story)
• Wandering Willie's Tale (short story)
• Waverly
• Waverly Novels volume 12 (of 12)
• Count Robert of Paris
• Castle Dangerous
• My Aunt Marget's Mirror
• Woodstock or the Cavalier
• Works of John Dryden edited by Walter Scott (1808)
• volume 2
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6
• volume 7
• volume 16 Life of St. Francis Xavier

about Sir Walter Scott

• Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy
• Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball

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Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)

• A Publisher and His Friends, memoir and Correspondence of John Murray
• Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and and Tool Makers
• Life of Thomas Telford: Civil Engineer
• Men of Invention and Industry
• James Nasmyth: Engineer, an Autobiography edited by Samuel Smiles
• Thrift

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Pappity Stampoy

• Scotch Proverbs (1663)

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

• Poetry

• Ballads
• A Child's Garden of Verses
• Moral Emblems
• New Poems
• Prayers Written at Vailima
• Songs of Travel
• Prose
• Across the Plains
• The Art of Writing
• The Black Arrow
• Catriona (sequel to Kidnapped)
• A Christmas Sermon
• David Balfour part 2
• The Dynamiter
• The Ebb-Tide
• Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
• Essays of Stevenson
• Essays of Travel
• Fables
• Familiar Studies of Men and Books
• Father Damien (short story)
• Footnote to History
• In the South Seas
• Inland Voyage
• Island Night's Entertainment
• Kidnapped
• Lay Morals
• Letters
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Lodging for the Night (short story)
• Markheim (short story)
• Master of Ballantrae
• Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
• Memories and Portraits
• Merry Men
• New Arabian Nights
• The Suicide Club
• The Rajah's Diamond
• The Pavilion on the Links
• A Lodging for the Night - a Story of Francis Villon
• The Sire de Maletroit's Door
• Providence and the Guitar
• Pavilion on the Links
• Plays by W.E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson
• Deacon Brodie
• Beau Austin
• Admiral Guinea
• Robert Macaire
• The Pocket RLS (favorite passages from the works of Stevenson)
• Prince Otto
• Records of a Family of Engineers
• St. Ives
• The Sea Fogs (short)
• Silverado Squatters
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Tales and Fantasies
• Thrawn Janet
• Travels with a Donkey
• Treasure Island
• Underwoods (short story)
• Vailima Letters
• Virginibus Puerisque
• Weir of Hermiston
• The Wrecker (co-author with Osbourne)
• The Wrong Box
• About Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and girls by Jacqueline Overton
• Robert Louis Stevenson by A.H. Japp
• Robert Louis Stevenson by Sir Walter Raleigh

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