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Article by Dugald Bannatyne in Glasgow Mechanic's Magazine, No. 53, Dec. 1824. Glasgow Mechanic's Magazine, vol. iii. p. 159. Mr. Mushet described it as "a wonderful discovery," and one of the "most novel and beautiful improvements in his time." Professor Gregory of Aberdeen characterized it as "the greatest improvement with which he was acquainted." Mr.
Scott used to say that the Bannatyne Club was the only successful joint-stock company he ever invested in and the remark is the key-note of the motives which kept alive the system that has done so much good to literature. To understand the nature and services of these valuable institutions, it is necessary to keep in view the limits within which alone they can be legitimately worked.
It is an example of his dauntless energy that, even in 1831, he was not only toiling at novels, and histories, and reviews, to wipe out his debts, but that, as a pure labour of love, he edited, for the Bannatyne Club, 'The trial of Duncan Terig alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald, for the murder of Arthur Davis, sergeant in General Guise's regiment of foot, June, 1754'.
I am in great hopes that the Bannatyne Club, by the assistance of Thomson's wisdom, industry, and accuracy, will be something far superior to the Dilettanti model on which it started. The Historie of K. James VI., Melville's Memoirs, and other works, executed or in hand, are decided boons to Scottish history and literature. February 2.
He intends to introduce some interesting characters, and some, I suspect, who have little business there. Yesterday I dined with the Lockharts at Portobello. To-day at home with Anne and Miss Erskine. They are gone to walk. I have pleasant subjects of reflection. The fund in Gibson's hands will approach £40,000, I think. Lord Melville writes desiring to be a candidate for the Bannatyne Club.
In Scotland, it was in the earlier issues of the Bannatyne that Thomas Thomson, too indolent or fastidious to commit himself to the writing of a book, left the most accessible vestiges of that power of practically grasping historical facts and conditions, which Scott admired so greatly, and acknowledged so much benefit from.
No temporary business but permanent rank. Gazetted in due course. Bannatyne that's our colonel damned good soldier! has got a staff appointment. I take his place. I promise you the Fourth King's Rifles are going to make history. Either history or manure. History for choice.
Dined at the Bannatyne Club, where I am chairman. We admitted a batch of new members, chiefly noblemen and men connected with the public offices and records in London, such as Palgrave, Petrie, etc. We drank to our old Scottish heroes, poets, historians, and printers, and were funny enough, though, like Shylock, I had no will to go abroad. I was supported by Lord Minto and Lord Eldin. Edin. Rev.
To MISS BANNATYNE. TRIM, April 1843. I am eager, with my own hand, to assure you that I am quite recovered. I have been so nursed and tended by all my friends that I really can think of nothing but myself; nevertheless, I am sometimes able to think of other things and persons.
The Bannatyne Club, lately finding no more to do, wound up with a graceful compliment to David Laing the man to whom, after Scott, it has been most indebted.
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