The biographical notices are extracted from that work, and are intended simply to introduce the authors to those who have not read their full biographies. It was the desire of the compiler to have given a Specimen of the writings of the Rev. William Tennent, Sen., but he has not been able to obtain one, and probably there is not one in existence; as Dr. Alexander, in his biography of him, says, Mr. Tennent, as far as we know.