It is invidious, if not mildly dangerous, to single out names. Yet with one we close our sketch of “Bonnie Scotland,” choosing for praise the dead, with no living line of descendants. Hepburn, for example, instead of being associated in our minds with dirks and poison, caste squabbles, or pitched battles,--after which “the turf looked red,”--calls up the mild face of a saintly soul who illustrated the Scripture promise of long life because of lips that refrained from speaking guile and of hands that ever healed. Who that is at home in Scottish history but has not infrequently run across the name of Hepburn--which reproduces in its vocables, not only a Scottish streamlet, but a line of mighty men? Who, also, that knows the story of the making of modern Japan but has heard of the beloved physician of Yokohama, known among the native-born as Kun-shi--the sage, super-man, gentleman by eminence, who spent his life in unselfish devotion to his fellow men, as a Christian healer, scholar, lexicographer, and philanthropist. In the midst of fame and fortune won by medical practice in the metropolitan city of New York, James Curtis Hepburn turned his back on these, to uplift in body and spirit the people of Japan, when just opened from hermitage to modern life. In the days of sailing ships and at the seaport where the selvages of two civilizations met, I saw him, day by day for years, with his healing touch dispensing medicine and cheer. He lived to make the dictionary which bridged the linguistic gulf between Orient and Occident, to translate the Eternal Word, to raise up hundreds of effective physicians, and, at ninety, to be honored by His Imperial Majesty the Mikado with a decoration, and to live, in serene old age, a benediction to his neighbors, until within five years of a century. In him I saw America honored and the nobler Scotland incarnated. THE END CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF SCOTLAND’S HISTORY PREHISTORIC Britain, “north of the Tweed.” Picts and various tribes. THE ROMAN PERIOD B.C. 55. Julius Cæsar lands in southern Britain. A.D. 50. Romans in Britain learn of the Caledonii in the north. 81. Agricola’s frontier between the Firths of Forth and Clyde. 82. The Ninth Legion at the Tay River. 84. Great battle between the Romans and northern natives. 84. Caledonia circumnavigated. 120. Hadrian erects the Roman Wall. 139. Wall of Antoninus Pius. 181. Revolt of the Tribes. Commodus. 208. Uprising of the Tribes. Severus. 210. Roman road made through the Forth Forests. 364. Highland host invades the South. 368. Roman slaughter of the “Scots” (Irish invaders). 406. Revolt of the northern tribes. 410. The Romans leave Britain. PERIOD OF ANARCHY--FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURY