We have a passing glimpse of Reid in 1773, when he was entertained in Glasgow by Johnson and Boswell, at the _Saracen’s Head Inn_, in the Gallowgate, ‘that paragon of inns in the eyes of the Scotch, but wretchedly managed.’ The travellers arrived there on the 28th of October, on their return from their romantic excursion to the Western Highlands. At the _Saracen’s Head_, on the following morning, as Boswell tells us, ‘Dr. Reid, the philosopher, and two other Glasgow professors, breakfasted with us,’ and they met them afterwards at supper. ‘I was not much pleased with any of them,’ the sage wrote to Mrs. Thrale. ‘The general impression upon my memory,’ Boswell says, ‘is, that we had not much conversation at Glasgow, where the professors, like their brethren at Aberdeen, did not venture to expose themselves much to the battery of cannon which they knew might play upon them.’ It is a pity that Boswell’s indifference, or indolence, on this occasion has deprived us of talk at the _Saracen’s Head_ and in the College Court, as dramatic in its way as the pictures of Rasay or Inch Kenneth. Notwithstanding Reid’s cautious and modest silence, or want of vivacity, he surely said and heard something at those Glasgow breakfasts and suppers. * * * * * Before death had put an end to the letters to the Skenes, Reid had become intimate with one of the most notable men of the time in Scotland. I do not know how the intimacy began, but as early as 1767 we have found him referring to a visit to Lord Kames at Blair-Drummond, and to the mysteries of _Barbara Celarent_. This means that he was at work on the _Brief Account of Aristotle’s Logic, with Remarks_, published seven years afterwards as an Appendix to one of Lord Kames’ _Sketches of the History of Man_. The _Sketches_ appeared in two quarto volumes, in 1774, and the _Brief Account_ fills about seventy pages in the second volume. It was Reid’s only appearance in print in the sixteen years of his public professorship in Glasgow. This, along with the essay on Quantity, given to the Royal Society in 1748, and the _Inquiry_, in 1764, made up his work as an author, until after he had ceased to be an oral teacher.