=WILLIAM ARCHER.=--"How came it that no one ever told me it was a thing unique in literature, the autobiography--yes, that is the word--of one of the most wonderful children, and quite the most adorable, that ever lived?... Never has so brief a piece of printed matter affected me so profoundly." (This refers to the story of "Pet Marjorie.") =W. E. GLADSTONE.=--"My estimate of Dr. John Brown was particularly high. It is easy and obvious to say he was a clever man and a good man, but this is only part of the truth, and he stood, I think, both in the intellectual and the moral order, much higher than these words of themselves convey." =ANDREW LANG.=--"Three volumes of essays are all that Dr. Brown has left us in the way of compositions; a light but imperishable literature.... No man of letters could be more widely regretted, for he was the friend of all who read his books, as even to people who only met him once or twice in life he seemed to become dear and familiar." =Professor DAVID MASSON.=--"Yes, many long years hence, when all of us are gone, I can imagine that a little volume will be in circulation, containing 'Rab and his Friends,' etc.; and that then readers now unborn, thrilled by that peculiar touch which only things of heart and genius can give, will confess to the same charm that now fascinates us, and will think with interest of Dr. John Brown of Edinburgh." =ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.=--"Marjorie Fleming I have known, as you surmise, for long. She was possibly--no, I take back possibly--she was one of the greatest works of God." A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. * * * * * FOOTNOTES: [1] Skene's _Celtic Scotland_, vol. ii. pp. 365, 366. [2] _Mediaeval Architecture_, vol. i. p. 8. [3] _Ibid._ pp. 8, 9, 26. [4] _Ibid._ p. 145. [5] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. i. pp. 1, 2. [6] _Ibid._ [7] _Eccles. Arch. of Scot._ vol. i. pp. 1, 2. [8] _Ibid._ pp. 175-190. [9] _Ibid._ p. 28. [10] _Ibid._ p. 28. [11] _Ibid._ p. 178. [12] _Eccles. Arch. of Scot._ vol. i. p. 191. [13] _Ibid._ p. 192. [14] _Ibid._ [15] _Eccles. Arch, of Scot._ vol. i. pp. 387, 388. [16] _Ibid._ pp. 46, 47. [17] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 1. [18] _Ibid._ p. 3. [19] _Ibid._ vol. i. p. 50. [20] _Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals_, pp. 68, 69. [21] _Ibid._ p. 70. [22] _Eccles. Arch. of Scot._ vol. ii. p. 332. [23] _Ibid._ vol. i. p. 57. [24] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. iii. pp. 1-7. [25] _Ancient Church and Parish of Abernethy_, p. 95. [26] _Pictish Chronicle_, p. 201. [27] _Amra Columcille_, pp. 29, 63. [28] _Celtic Scotland_, vol. ii. pp. 136, 137. [29] Scott's _Marmion_. [30] _Celtic Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 274. [31] _Celtic Scotland_, vol. ii. pp. 309, 310. [32] _Scotichronicon_, bk. iv. c. 12. [33] _Reg. Pri. S. And._ App. p. xxxi. [34] Reeves's _British Culdees_, p. 41. [35] _Church of Scotland: Past and Present_, vol. ii. pp. 309, 310.