lady--are at rest under these time-worn canopies. How interesting and touching to follow the inscriptions around the walls, and the numerous chaste carvings on 'pillar and arch and lintel high.' Two epitaphs outside call for attention, both connected with Scott. One, which he was fond of repeating--it is surely one of the most pregnant in epitaphian literature--runs: 'The earth goeth on the earth, Glist'ring like gold; The earth goes to the earth Sooner than it wold; The earth builds on the earth Castles and towers; The earth says to the earth, "All shall be ours."' The other, his own simple and sincere words, covering the grave of honest Tom Purdie: IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE FAITHFUL AND ATTACHED SERVICES OF TWENTY-TWO YEARS, AND IN SORROW FOR THE LOSS OF A HUMBLE BUT SINCERE FRIEND, THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART., OF ABBOTSFORD. HERE LIES THE BODY OF THOMAS PURDIE, WOOD-FORESTER AT ABBOTSFORD, WHO DIED 29 OCTOBER, 1829, AGED SIXTY-TWO YEARS. 'Thou hast been faithful Over a few things, I will make thee ruler Over many things.' MATTHEW, chap. xxv. v. 21st. Close under the Abbey windows reposes all that is mortal of the great Christian philosopher, Sir David Brewster. 'The Lord is my Light' is a not unfitting text for one who was the acknowledged master of optics in his day. Melrose Cross, in the centre of the town, with the date of its restoration (1642), is believed to be the oldest 'mercat-cross' in the Borders. From Melrose we may climb the clefted Eildons, always in vision, the supreme landmarks and sentinels of the Borderland. Here Scott loved to linger. 'I can stand on the Eildon Hill,' he said, 'and point out forty-three places famous in war and verse.' Or the romantic green-woods of the Fairy Dean may attract us, despite the 'White Lady' and her vagaries. And we may be led to explore Elwyndale and the fine open country to the head of the glen, with the three towers of the 'Monastery,' Hillslap or Glendearg--Dame Glendinning's home--Langshaw, and Colmslie.