INTRODUCTION. Character of Dr. Johnson. He arrives in Scot-
land.
August 15. Sir W. Forbes. Practice of the law. Emigration.
Dr. Beattie and Mr. Hume. Dr. Robertson. Mr. Burke's
various and extraordinary talents. Question concerning genius.
Whitfield and Wesley. Instructions to political parties. Dr.
Johnson's opinion of Garrick as a tragedian.
August 16. Ogden on Prayer. Aphoristick writing. Edin-
burgh surveyed. Character of Swift's works. Evil spirits
and witchcraft. Lord Monboddo.
August 17. Poetry and Dictionary-writing. Scepticism. Eter-
nal necessity refuted. Lord Hailes's criticism on The Vanity
of Human Wishes. Mr. Maclaurin. Decision of the Judges
in Scotland on literary property.
August 18. Set out to the Hebrides. Sketch of the authour's
character. Trade of Glasgow. Suicide.
August 19. Dr. Watson. Literature and patronage. Writing
and conversation compared. Change of manners. The Union.
Value of money. St. Andrews and John Knox.
from the world. Dinner with the Professors.
cerning sorrow and content. Instructions for composition.
Dr. Johnson's method. Uncertainty of memory.
Observance of Sunday. Professor
Shaw. Transubstantiation. Literary property. Mr. Tyers's
Laurence Kirk. Dinner at Mon-
boddo. Emigration. Homer. Biography and history com-
pared. Decrease of learning. Causes of it. Promotion of