It is pleasant to notice the general consent with which we agree that no one else was so fitted to recommend the Chalmers memorial as Dean Ramsay.
It was to do honour to my own little book that I ventured, without asking leave, to print the few lines which follow, from the great French writer, the high minister of State, the patron of historical letters for half-a-century in France, the Protestant Guizot.
M.GUIZOT to the DEAN.
Paris, ce 7 Fevrier 1870, 10 Rue Billault.
Sir--Je m'associerai avec un vrai et serieux plaisir a l'erection d'une statue en l'honneur du Dr.Chalmers.Il n'y a point de theologien ni de moraliste Chretien a qui je porte une plus haute estime.

Sur quelques unes des grandes questions qu' il a traitees, je ne partage pas ses opinions; mais j'honore et j'admire l'elevation, la vigueur de sa pense, et la beaute morale de son genie.

Je vous prie, Monsieur, de me compter parmi les hommes qui se feliciteront de pouvoir lui rendre un solennel hommage, et je vous remercie d'avoir pense a moi dans ce dessein.
Recevez l'assurance de mes sentiments les plus distingues.
GUIZOT.
Mr.E.B.Ramsay, Dean, etc., 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, North Britain.
Some of Mr.Gladstone's letters, already printed, show that they were not the beginning of the correspondence between him and the Dean.

The accident which made them acquainted will be mentioned afterwards (p.

lxxxi.) Right Hon.