The nine volumes include: William Smellie's Literary and Characteristical Lives of John Gregory, Henry Home, Lord Kames, David Hume, and Adam Smith (1800); Henry Moncreiff Wellwood's Account of the Life and Writings of John Erskine (1818); John Thomson's two volume An Account of the Life, Lectures, and Writings of William Cullen (1859); The two volume Life and Writings of James Beattie by Sir William Forbes (1806); John Hill's An Account of the Life and Writings of Hugh Blair (1807); Dugald Stewart's Life and Writings of William Robertson (1802); and Henry Mackenzie's Life and Writings of John Home (1822). Most of these works include new introductions which discuss the historical significance and context of both subject and memoir. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR