The author of the " History of Fiction" was born on the 30th December, 1785, and was the son of John Dunlop, merchant of Glasgow, and Lord Provost of that city in 1796, Collector of Customs at Borrow-Stounness, and afterwards at Port Glasgow, where he died in 1820, author of some popular songs, among which may be named "Oh dinna ask me gin I lo'e you," and "Here's to the year that's awa." His wife, the mother of John Colin Dunlop, was a daughter of Sir Thomas Miller, of Glenlee, who was appointed Lord Justice Clerk in 1766, and Lord President of the Court in 1788; and a sister of Sir William Miller, of Glenlee, Bart., who was appointed one of the Judges of the Court of Session in 1795.

Of the career of her son, the writer of the " History of Fiction," comparatively little would seem to be on record.

He was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates on the 7th March, 1807, the subject of his thesis being "De jure jurando, sive voluntario, sive necessario, sive judiciali." In 1816 he was appointed Sheriff of Renfrewshire, an office he continued to hold until his death, which occurred at 12, India Street, Edinburgh, on the 26th of January, 1842. He was said to have been a man of simple manners and unostentatious life, a lucid, fluent, and graceful speaker, and a sound lawyer.

For most of the above biographical particulars, I gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. Clerk, of the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.

Besides the 66 History of Fiction" its author also wrote: "The History of Roman Literature, from its earliest period to the Augustan age." London, 1823-1828. 3 vols. 8vo.

"Memoirs of Spain during the reigns of Philip IV. and Charles II.," 1611-1700. London, 1834. 2 vols. 8vo. The "History of Fiction" was first published in 1814,

the full title running "The History of Fiction; be critical account of the most celebrated prose work Fiction, from the earliest Greek Romances to the Nove the Present Day." Edinburgh, 1814. 3 vols. 8vo.

A second edition was issued in 1816, and I have references to a Philadelphia reprint in two volumes, 1 from the second edition, and to a third edition in volume, 1845.

H. W

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