Biographia Scoticana; Or a Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies ... from Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was Born about the Year of Our Lord 1503 ... to Mr. James Renwick, who was Executed at Edinburgh, Feb. 1688. Together with a Succinct Account of the Lives of Other Seven Eminent Divines, and Sir R. Hamilton of Preston ... Also an Appendix, Containing a Short Historical Hint of the Wicked Lives of Some of the Most Remarkable Apostates and Bloody Persecutors in Scotland, from the Reformation to the Revolution. By J. Howie. Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged


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Henry L. Brunk and Brunk's Comedians


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Tent repertoire theatre as a form of popular entertainment caught on in the late 19th century, had its heyday in the 1920s, and was finished by the Depression and World War II gasoline rationing. The author examines this rise and fall in context of an increasingly urbanized society.













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