AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
1885.
CONTENTS
[The Recollections of a Village Patriarch, (John Mackay Wilson)]
[The Old Chronicler's Tales, (Alexander Leighton)]
[The Death of James I]
[The Curate of Govan, (Alexander Campbell)]
[Gleanings of the Covenant, (Professor Thomas Gillespie)]
[I.—The Grandmother's Narrative]
[II.—The Covenanters' March]
[III.—Peden's Farewell Sermon]
[IV.—The Persecution of the M'Michaels]
[The Story of Tom Bertram, (Oliver Richardson)]
[The Cottar's Daughter, (Anon.)]
[The Surgeon's Tales, (Alexander Leighton)]
[ The Case of Evidence]
[The Warning, (Alexander Bethune)]
[Grizel Cochrane. A Tale of Tweedmouth Muir, (John Mackay Wilson)]
[Squire Ben, (John Mackay Wilson)]
[The Battle of Dryffe Sands, (Anon.)]
[The Clerical Murderer, (Alexander Leighton)]
WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS, AND OF SCOTLAND.
THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A VILLAGE PATRIARCH.
There is no feeling more strongly or more generally implanted in the human breast, than man's love for the place of his nativity. The shivering Icelander sees a beauty, that renders them pleasant, in his mountains of perpetual snow; and the sunburned Moor discovers a loveliness in his sultry and sandy desert. The scenes of our nativity become implanted on our hearts like the memory of undying dreams; and with them the word home is for ever associated, and