My love to Stuart, and same to thyself .-- Thine affectionate fourscore old friend, E.B.

RAMSAY.
I am preparing a twenty-second edition of _Reminiscences_.

Who would have thought it?
No man.
I have not hitherto made any mention of the Dean's most popular book, the _Reminiscences_.

I cannot write but with respect of a work in which he was very much interested, and where he showed his knowledge of his countrymen so well.

As a critic, I must say that his style is peculiarly unepigrammatic; and yet what collector of epigrams or epigrammatic stories has ever done what the Dean has done for Scotland?
It seems as if the wilful excluding of point was acceptable, otherwise how to explain the popularity of that book?
All over the world, wherever Scotch men and Scotch language have made their way--and that embraces wide regions--the stories of the _Reminiscences_, and Dean Ramsay's name as its author, are known and loved as much as the most popular author of this generation.