[3] Andrew Lang, “Magic Mirrors and Crystal-gazing,” Monthly Review, February, 1902.
[4] The Free University Education Scheme of Dr. Andrew Carnegie (many times millionaire, beloved of the American steel worker, and author of a book called Triumphant Democracy, if you please) will no doubt change all this.
[5] George Lockhart, Memoirs Concerning the Affairs of Scotland from Queen Anne’s Accession to May, 1707.
[6] John Hill Burton, D.C.L., LL.D., The Scot Abroad.
[7] “English and Scotch,” The British Weekly, January 16, 1902.
[8] “English and Scotch,” The British Weekly, January 16, 1902.
[9] “The Battle of Bannockburn was won by the Scotch in 1314. Here’s tae us, wha’s like us?”—Scotch Toast.
[10] George Vivian Poore, A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence, 1901.
[11] There are some people who think they sufficiently acquit themselves, and entertain their company, with relating facts of no consequence, but at all out of the road of such common incidents as happen every day; and this I have observed more frequently among the Scots than any other nation, who are very careful not to omit the minutest circumstances of time or place; which kind of discourse, if it were not a little relieved by the uncouth terms and phrases, as well as accent and gesture peculiar to that country, would be hardly tolerable.—Jonathan Swift, Hints towards an Essay on Conversation.
[12] Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia.