While, as will have been seen, Dr. John was by no means insensible to impressions from anything excellent coming from besouth the Tweed, it was naturally in his own Scotland, and among the things and persons immediately round about him there, that his faculty of appreciation revelled most constantly. With the majority of his literary fellow-countrymen that have attained popularity in Scotland during the last fifty years, he derived many of his literary instincts from the immense influence of “Scotticism” which had been infused into the preceding generation, and is seen, in his choice of themes, following reverently in the wake of the great Sir Walter. He reminds one somewhat of Aytoun in this respect, though with a marked Presbyterian difference. Most of his papers are on Scottish subjects; and in some of them, such as his _Queen Mary’s Child-Garden_, his _Minchmoor_, the paper called _The Enterkin_, that entitled _A Jacobite Family_, and that entitled _Biggar and the House of Fleming_, we have descriptions of Scottish scenes and places very much in the spirit of Sir Walter, though by no means slavishly so, with notes of their historical associations, and recovery of local legends, romances, and humours. In a more original vein, though also principally Scottish, are those papers which may be described as memoirs and character-sketches in a more express sense than the three or four already referred to as combining memoir with criticism. By far the most important of these is his Memoir of his own Father, in supplement to the Life of his Father by the Rev. Dr. John Cairns, and published under the too vague title of _Letter to John Cairns, D.D._ It is a really beautiful piece of writing, not only full of filial affection, and painting for us his father’s life and character with vivid fidelity, but also interesting for its reminiscences of the author’s own early years, and its sketches of several eminent ministers of the Scottish Secession communion whom he had known as friends of his father. The paper entitled _Dr. Chalmers_, though not particularly good, attests the strength of the impression made by that great man on Dr. John Brown, as on every one else that knew Dr. Chalmers. Better, and indeed fine, though slight, are _Edward Forbes_, _Dr. George Wilson_, _The Duke of Athole_, _Struan_, and _Miss Stirling Graham of Duntrune_. On the whole, however, the most characteristic papers of the Memoir class are those of Medical Biography, including _Locke and Sydenham_, _Dr. Andrew Combe_, _Dr. Henry Marshall and Military Hygiene_, _Our Gideon Grays_, _Dr. Andrew Brown and Sydenham_, _Dr. Adams of Banchory_, _Dr. John Scott and His Son_, _Mr. Syme, and Sir Robert Christison_. Sydenham was Dr. John Brown’s ideal of a physician, and his account of that English physician and of his place in the history of medicine is of much value. The medical profession is indebted to him also for his warm-hearted vindication of those whom he calls, after Scott, “Our