A MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF JOHN TULLOCH, D.D., LL.D. PRINCIPAL AND PRIMARIUS PROFESSOR OF ST MARY'S COLLEGE, ST ANDREWS DEAN OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE THISTLE; ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S CHAPLAINS IN SCOTLAND, ETC., ETC. BY MRS OLIPHANT AUTHOR OF 'THE LIFE OF EDWARD IRVING,' ETC., ETC. WITH A PORTRAIT WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS MDCCCLXXXVIII All Rights reserved TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. MADAM, Since the completion of the fifty years during which your Majesty has held the chief place in your kingdoms, I think the writers and thinkers of that period may venture more and more to feel a certain bond between themselves and their Queen, upon whose gracious name their humbler names will still be attendant, while history prolongs the record of the great Victorian age. In this point of view, as well as by your gracious permission, I am encouraged to offer to your Majesty the following simple record of one of the most faithful among the many faithful subjects and respectful friends whom your Majesty's clear-sighted appreciation and kindness have gathered round the steps of the throne in every rank of life. Though it is difficult to predict what place the judgment of posterity may allot to him in the literary history of the time, no one who knows Scotland can doubt the great influence wielded by Principal Tulloch, especially in the affairs of the Church and in the interests of National Education, always with a view to a larger charity, and a |