ons of pictures he
was more taken up with what is usually and justly the most
tiresome departments, the portraits, than with all else. He
was not learned in engravings, and made no attempt at
collecting them, so that the following list of portraits in
his rooms shows his liking for the men much more than for
the art which delineated them. Of course they by no means
include all his friends, ancient and modern, but they all
_were_ his friends:--

Robert Hall--Dr. Carey--Melancthon--Calvin--Pollok--Erasmus
(very like "Uncle Ebenezer")--John Knox--Dr. Waugh--John
Milton (three all framed)--Dr. Dick--Dr. Hall--Luther
(two)--Dr. Heugh--Dr. Mitchell--Dr. Balmer--Dr.
Henderson--Dr. Wardlaw--Shakspeare (a small oil painting
which he had since ever I remember)--Dugald Stewart--Dr.
Innes--Dr. Smith, Biggar--the two Erskines and Mr.
Fisher--Dr. John Taylor of Toronto--Dr. Chalmers--Mr.
William Ellis--Rev. James Elles--J. B.
Patterson--Vinet--Archibald M'Lean--Dr. John
Erskine--Tholuck--John Pym--Gesenius--Professor
Finlayson--Richard Baxter--Dr. Lawson--Dr. Peddie (two, and
a copy of Joseph's noble bust); and they were thus all about
him for no other reason than that he liked to look at and
think of them through their countenances.

[25] In a copy of Baxter's Life and Times, which he picked up at
Maurice Ogle's shop in Glasgow, which had belonged to Anna,
Countess of Argyll, besides her autograph, there is a most
affecting and interesting note in that venerable lady's
handwriting. It occurs on the page where Baxter brings a
charge of want of veracity against her eldest and
name-daughter who was perverted to Popery. They are in a
hand tremulous with age and feeling:--"I can say w^t truth I
neuer in all my lyff did hear hir ly, and what she said, if
it was not trew, it was by others sugested to hir, as y^t
she wold embak on Wedensday. She belived she wold, bot thy
took hir, alles! from me who never did sie her mor. The
minester of Cuper, Mr. John Magill, did sie hir at Paris in
the convent. Said she was a knowing and vertuous person, and
hed retined the living principels of our relidgon, which
made him say it was good to grund y