ROBERT and ANDREW, supposed to have been natives of Glasgow, were two learned printers, and passed their lives in comparative obscurity. They succeeded, however, in establishing a press, and from it issued some of the most accurate and elegant editions of standard works that were produced during the eighteenth century. Robert's first attempt was about 1740, which ended in the publication of an excellent 4to edition of Demetrius Phalereus in 1743. Next appeared his immaculate 12mo edition of Horace, of which the sheets, as they were struck off, were suspended in the college at Glasgow, and a reward offered to those who should point out an inaccuracy. Soon after the publication of this famous edition of Horace, the brothers entered into partnership, and continued during 30 years to issue a series of the classics and other works, printed in the most accurate and elegant manner. Of these the most remarkable are the small editions of Cicero, Tacitus, Cornelius Nepos, Virgil, Titullus and Propertius, Lucretius, and Juvenal; a beautiful edition of the Greek Testament, in small 4to; Homer, fol. 4 vols., 1756-1758; Herodotus, Greek and Latin, 9 vols. 12mo, 1761; Xenophon, Greek and Latin, 12 vols. in 12mo, 1762-1767. To these we may add Gray's Poems; Pope's Works; Hales of Eton, &c.

It is sad to relate that these learned, indefatigable, and successful men were at length ruined by their taste for the fine arts. This was brought about by their establishment of an academy for the instruction of youth in sculpture and painting, but chiefly by the enormous expense incurred in sending young artists to Italy to copy the ancients. They found the city of Glasgow a very ungenial soil into which to transplant the imitative arts; and thus after having realized ample fortunes by their classical publications, they died in poverty, after having parted with the last of their paintings at Christie's in Pall Mall. Andrew died in 1775, and Robert in 1776.