of the Old Days and the

Old Friends

THE LIST OF CHAPTERS

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I.Parliament House and Lawyers[3]
II.The Church in Edinburgh[31]
III.Town’s College and Schools[55]
IV.Surgeons and Doctors[73]
V.Royalty[103]
VI.Men of Letters, Part I.[131]
VII.Men of Letters, Part II.[151]
VIII.The Artists[177]
IX.The Women of Edinburgh[195]
X.The Supernatural[219]
XI.The Streets[241]
XII.The City[269]
Index[289]
THE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Lord Cockburn
By Sir J. Watson Gordon		[frontispiece]
Sir Thomas Hamilton, First Earl of Haddington[8]
John Clerk, Lord Eldin
From a mezzotint after Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.		[16]
John Inglis, Lord President of the Court of Session
From a painting in the Parliament House. By permission of the Faculty of Advocates.		[24]
Mr. James Guthrie
From an old engraving.		[36]
Sir Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston
From a painting by George Jamesone.		[40]
Rev. Sir Henry Moncreiff-Wellwood
From an engraving after Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.		[48]
Robert Leighton, D.D., Archbishop of Glasgow
From an engraving by Sir Robert Strange.		[56]
Principal William Carstares
From the engraving by Jeens. By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., London.		[64]
Dr. Archibald Pitcairne
From an engraving after Sir John Medina.		[88]
Dr. Alexander Wood
From an engraving after Ailison.		[92]
Professor James Syme
From a drawing in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.		[96]
Margaret Tudor, Queen of James IV.
From the painting by Mabuse.		[104]
Mary of Guise, Queen of James V.
From an old engraving.		[108]
Mary, Queen of Scots
From the Morton portrait.		[112]
William Drummond of Hawthornden
From the painting by Cornelius Jonson van Ceulen		[132]
James Boswell
From an engraving after Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.		[144]
Henry Mackenzie, “The Man of Feeling”
From an engraving after Andrew Geddes.		[152]
John Leyden
From a pen drawing.		[160]
Robert Louis Stevenson as an Edinburgh Student[172]
Allan Ramsay, Painter
From a mezzotint after Artist’s own painting.		[180]
Rev. John Thomson of Duddingston
From the engraving by Croll.		[184]
Mrs. Alison Cockburn
From a photograph.		[200]
Miss Jean Elliot
From a sepia drawing.		[204]
Susanna, Countess of Eglinton
From the painting by Gavin Hamilton.		[208]
Caroline, Baroness Nairne
From a lithograph.		[212]
Mrs. Siddons as “The Tragic Muse”
From an engraving after Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.		[216]
James IV.
From an old engraving.		[220]
A Bedesman or Bluegown
From a sketch by Monro S. Orr.		[240]
Allan Ramsay, Poet
From an engraving after William Aikman.		[248]
Andrew Crosbie, “Pleydell”
From a painting in the Parliament House. By permission of the Faculty of Advocates.		[256]
Rev. Thomas Somerville
From a photograph in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.		[272]
William Smellie
From an engraving after George Watson.		[280]

BOOK OF EDINBURGH ANECDOTE

CHAPTER ONE
PARLIAMENT HOUSE & LAWYERS