Hazlitt's review of Wilson's book is in the Edinburgh for January, 1830, with this reference to Lamb's criticisms: "Captain Singleton is a hardened, brutal desperado, without one redeeming trait, or almost human feeling; and, in spite of what Mr. Lamb says of his lonely musings and agonies of a conscience-stricken repentance, we find nothing of this in the text.

I was named in the year 1779 for the General Assembly, and Mrs. Balwhidder, by her continual thrift, having made our purse able to stand a shake against the wind, we resolved to go into Edinburgh in a creditable manner.

In short, everybody in Edinburgh was in a manner wearisome kind.

One was Miss Jessie Brown's unguarded admissionà propos of Shetland woolthat she had an uncle, her mother's brother, who was a shopkeeper in Edinburgh.

" Lady John to Lord John Russell EDINBURGH, March 19, 1846

Lady John to Lord John Russell EDINBURGH, March 23, 1846

Lady John to Lord John Russell EDINBURGH, March 25, 1846 ....

During Lady John's long illness in Edinburgh, Francis Lord Jeffrey had been one of her kindest friends, and had helped to brighten many a weary hour by his visits and conversation.

Lord Jeffrey to Lady John Russell EDINBURGH, December 21, 1846

from the press of Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh.

Aikieside is in the Pease Dean, a magnificent wooded glen, crossed a little lower down by a famous bridge which carries the old post road from Edinburgh to Berwick over the Pease Burn at a height of nearly one hundred and thirty feet.

From the bridge by which the Edinburgh and Berwick road crosses the dean, at the height of one hundred feet above the bed of the stream, the view in both directions is extremely fine.

He was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for many years, and was an acknowledged expert in Natural Science, especially in Geology.

Still, the mother thought that this could be faced, and, in order to acquaint herself more fully with all the facts of the situation, she resolved to pay a long-promised visit to her youngest brother, who with his family was now living in Edinburgh.

He worked at his herding up till the day before he left for the University, in the end of October 1834; and then, starting in the middle of the night with William Christison, the Cockburnspath carrier, he trudged beside the cart that conveyed the box containing his clothes and his scanty stock of books all the thirty-five miles between Dunglass and Edinburgh.

When John Cairns entered the University of Edinburgh in November 1834 he passed into a world that was entirely strange to him.

Pillans had been a master at Eton, and at a later period Rector of the Edinburgh High School.

All through the winter a box travelled with the Cockburnspath carrier every three or four weeks between Edinburgh and Dunglass, taking with it on the outward journey clothes to be washed and mended, and on the return journey always including a store of country provisionsscones, oatmeal, butter, cheese, bacon, and potatoes.

The letters that passed between the student and his family were also sent in the box, for as yet there was no penny post, and the postage of a letter between Dunglass and Edinburgh cost as much as sixpence halfpenny or sevenpence.

The grand sequence is this, that at the end of the session I must come forward in the presence of many of the Edinburgh grandees and deliver a Latin oration as a prelude to receiving the medal.

Then I went to Edinburgh, and down to London, and back north to Manchester.

By Alexander Sutherland, Esq. Member of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh.

Printed BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co Edinburgh & London En

This ship, which was called the Enterprise, was of 100 tons burden, and was constructed at Edinburgh for marine fishery.

See the works of Dr. Crombie, J. Grant, T. O. Churchill, R. Hiley, B. H. Smart, M. Harrison, and W. G. Lewis, published in London; and J. M. M'Culloch's Grammar, published in Edinburgh; also some American grammars, as E. Hazen's, N. Butler's, D. B. Tower's, W. H. Wells's, the Sanderses'. OBS.