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inburgh. Edinburgh, Printed by Robert Waldegrave, Printer to the King's Maiestie, 1602. Cum Privilegio Regis. 8o. Prima Elementa Grammaticae in usum juventutis Scoticae digesta. Edinburgi, 1612. 8o. Grammatica Nova in usum juventutis Scoticae ad methodum revocata. Edinburgi, 1612. 8o. Bellum Grammaticale, ad exemplar Mri. Alexandri Humii. Edinburgi, excud. Gideon Lithgo, Anno Dom. 1658 8o. Several later editions. This humorous Grammatical Tragi-Comedy was not written by Hume, but only revised by him. King James's Progresses, collected and Published by John Adamson afterwards Principal of the University of Edinburgh, entitled-- +TA TO:N MOUSO:N EISODIA+: The Muses Welcome to the High and Mighty Prince James &c. At his Majesties happie Returne to Scotland In Anno 1617. Edinburgh 1618, folio. At page 1: "His Majestie came from Bervik to Dunglas the xiij day of Maye, where was delivered this [latin] speach following by A. Hume."--At page 16, there is also a couple of Latin verses signed "Alexander Humius." MS. in the British Museum. The present work. MS. in the Advocates' Library:-- Rerum Scoticarum Compendium, in usum Scholarum. Per Alexandrum Humium ex antiqua et nobili gente Humiorum in Scotia, a prim{a^} stirpe quinta sobole oriundum. This work is dated October 1660, and is therefore merely a transcript. It is an epitome of Buchanan's History, and Chr. Irvine in Histor. Scot. Nomenclatura, calls it Clavis in Buchananum, and Bishop Nicholson (Scottish Hist. Lib.) praises its Latin style. The following three works are inserted by Dr. Steven in his list of Hume's writings, and have been supposed to be his by M'Crie and others; but Mr. D. Laing believes "there can be no doubt, from internal evidence, that the true author was Alexander Hume, the poet, who became minister of Logie, near Stirling, in 1597, and who died in December, 1609." In Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, by Bliss, i., 624, it is stated that all three of them "were printed in London in 1594, in October," but this must, I think, be a mistake. Ane Treatise of Conscience, quhairin divers secreits concerning that subject are discovered. At Edinburgh, printed by Robert Walde-grave, Printer to the King's Maiestie 1594. 8o. Of the Felicitie of the world to come, unsavorie to the obstinate, alluring to such as are gone astray, and to t
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