In accounting for the marvellous success of the little book, it should not be forgotten that the anecdotes are not only true to nature, but actually true, and that the author loved enthusiastically Scotland, and everything Scotch.

But while there were so many things to endear it to the peasantry of Scotland, it was not admired by them alone.

I insert a few letters to show what impression it made on those whom one would expect to find critical, if not jealous.

Dickens, the king of story-tellers; Dr.Guthrie, the most picturesque of preachers; Bishop Wordsworth, Dean Stanley, themselves masters of style--how eagerly they received the simple stories of Scotland told without ornament.
BISHOP WORDSWORTH to DEAN RAMSAY.
The Feu House, Perth, January 12, 1872.
My dear Dean--Your kind, welcome and most elegant present reached me yesterday--in bed; to which, and to my sofa, I have been confined for some days by a severe attack of brow ague; and being thus disabled for more serious employment, I allowed my thoughts to run upon the lines which you will find over leaf.

Please to accept them as being _well intended_; though (like many other good intentions) I am afraid they give only too true evidence of the source from which they come--viz., _disordered head._--Yours very sincerely, C.WORDSWORTH, _Bp.