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"A writer of the most ardent and enthusiastic genius."—

"The whole literature of England does not contain a more brilliant series of articles than those with which Wilson has enriched the pages of Blackwood's Magazine."—Sir

"The future historians of Scotland will be very fortunate if many parts of their materials are so carefully worked up for them, and set before them in so complete and taking a form."—Athenæum.

"We have in these records of the coinage of Scotland not the production of a dilettante but of a real student, who with rare pains and the most scholarly diligence has set to work and collected into two massive volumes a complete history of the coinage of Scotland, so far as it can be gathered from ancient records."—Academy.

"Such a book . . . . revealing as it does the first developments of an industry which has become the mainspring of the national prosperity, ought to be specially interesting to all patriotic Scotsmen."—Saturday Review.

"A book which will have considerable value in the eyes of all collectors of Scottish literature. A gathering up of stories about well-known inhabitants, memorable local occurrences, and descriptions of manners and customs."—Scotsman