CHAPTER IX.

1752-1755. ÆT. 41-44.

Appointment as keeper of the Advocates' Library--His Duties-- Commences the History of England--Correspondence with Adam Smith and others on the History--Generosity to Blacklock the Poet--Quarrel with the Faculty of Advocates--Publication of the First Volume of the History--Its reception--Continues the History--Controversial and Polemical attacks--Attempt to subject him, along with Kames, to the Discipline of Ecclesiastical Courts--The leader of the attack--Home's "Douglas"--The first Edinburgh Review. 367

APPENDIX.

Fragments of a Paper in Hume's handwriting, describing the Descent on the Coast of Brittany, in 1746, and the causes of its failure. 441

Letters from Montesquieu to Hume, 456

---- the Abbé le Blanc to Hume, 458

Documents relating to the Poems of Ossian, 462

Essay on the Genuineness of the Poems, 471

THE LIFE

OF

DAVID HUME.