 A fourth edition by R & R Clark Ltd, Edinburgh 1905 and a fifth edition in two volumes was published by James Lewis, Selkirk in 1911.He also contributed essays on poetry as well as poems to "Blackwood's Magazine", "Cornhill Magazine", "Chambers's Edinburgh Journal" and other periodicals.Some of his essays were published by Smith, Elder & Co, London in 1878 in a volume entitled "Ethical and Aesthetica of Modern Poetry" and he was also author of "Bible Truths with Shakspearean Parallels" published by Whittaker & Co., London in 1862 and of which two further editions were printed.