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] Mediæval Architecture, vol. i. p. 8.
[3] Ibid. pp. 8, 9, 26.