derful children, and quite the most adorable, that ever
lived?... Never has so brief a piece of printed matter affected me so
profoundly." (This refers to the story of "Pet Marjorie.")

=W. E. GLADSTONE.=--"My estimate of Dr. John Brown was particularly
high. It is easy and obvious to say he was a clever man and a good man,
but this is only part of the truth, and he stood, I think, both in the
intellectual and the moral order, much higher than these words of
themselves convey."

=ANDREW LANG.=--"Three volumes of essays are all that Dr. Brown has left
us in the way of compositions; a light but imperishable literature....
No man of letters could be more widely regretted, for he was the friend
of all who read his books, as even to people who only met him once or
twice in life he seemed to become dear and familiar."

=Professor DAVID MASSON.=--"Yes, many long years hence, when all of us
are gone, I can imagine that a little volume will be in circulation,
containing 'Rab and his Friends,' etc.; and that then readers now
unborn, thrilled by that peculiar touch which only things of heart and
genius can give, will confess to the same charm that now fascinates us,
and will think with interest of Dr. John Brown of Edinburgh."

=ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.=--"Marjorie Fleming I have known, as you
surmise, for long. She was possibly--no, I take back possibly--she was
one of the greatest works of God."

A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.

* * * * *

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Skene's _Celtic Scotland_, vol. ii. pp. 365, 366.

[2] _Mediaeval Architecture_, vol. i. p. 8.

[3] _Ibid._ pp. 8, 9, 26.

[4] _Ibid._ p. 145.

[5] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. i. pp. 1, 2.

[6] _Ibid._

[7] _Eccles. Arch. of Scot._ vol. i. pp. 1, 2.

[8] _Ibid._ pp. 175-190.

[9] _Ibid._ p. 28.

[10] _Ibid._ p. 28.

[11] _Ibid._ p. 178.

[12] _Eccles. Arch. of Scot._ vol. i. p. 191.

[13] _Ibid._ p. 192.

[14] _Ibid._

[15] _Eccles. Arch, of Scot._ vol. i. pp. 387, 388.

[16] _Ibid._ pp. 46, 47.

[17] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 1.

[18] _Ibid._ p. 3.

[19] _Ibid._ vol. i. p. 50.

[20] _Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals_, pp. 68, 69.

[21] _Ibid._ p. 70.

[22] _Eccles. Arch. of Scot._ vol. ii. p. 332.

[23] _Ibid._ vol. i. p. 57.

[24] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. iii. pp. 1-7.

[25] _Ancient Church and Parish of Abernethy_, p. 95.

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