most part, compiled from what was written at the time and on Some few were entirely written after the author's the spot. return. It is an affecting thought that several of the persons who appear in these letters as among the living, have now passed to the great future. The Earl of Warwick, Lord Cockburn, Judge Talfourd, and Dr. Wardlaw, are no more among the ways of men. Thus, while we read, while we write, the shadowy procession is passing; the good are being gathered into life, and heaven enriched by the garnered treasures of earth. H. B. S. Douglas of Cavers.-Temperance Soirée.-Calls.-Lord Gainsborough. -Sir William Hamilton.-George Combe.-Visit to Hawthornden. —Roslin Castle. —The Quakers.—Hervey's Studio.—Grass Market. |