MYLES

James . b. parish of Liff, Scotland 1819; worked as a mason several years; a public speaker on the people’s rights; bookseller in the Over gate, Dundee to death; published A Feast of literary crumbs, By Foo Foozle and friends; author of Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy, reprinted from Northern Warder newspaper; Rambles in For far shire, or sketches in town and country 1850, mostly reprinted from Dundee Courier; i ued prospectus of a periodical entitled Myles’s For far shire telegraph and monthly advertiser, shortly before his death. d. Dundee 26 Feb. 1851. W. Norries’ Dundee Celebrities (1873) 132–3.