lie of the land!), girt about with well-kept gardens, overlooking the bosky banks of the Jed-a veritable poem in Nature and Art. There is one place which should not be overlooked. To him who writes it is the sweetest and the best, entwined with memories lasting as life itself. With the story of Thomas of Ercildoune he first heard that of Sir Walter Scott. Under the weird shadow of the Rhymer's Tower, other names fell upon his ear-Ashestiel, Abbotsford, Marmion,' Waverley.' Much has been since then! But home and the days of youth are never forgotten. One hears still in memory the music of the Leader. Across the years comes there again and again a sweet old-time fragrance of yellow broom from Cowdenknowes. 6 6 INDEX Berwick, 16 Burns, Captain, 143 Robert, 12, 218 Burritt, Elihu, 215 Byron, Lady, 89 Lord, 13, 30, 81, 89 220 Killarney, 93 'Lucy's Flittin',' 82 Mackenzie, Henry, 54, 80, 91 Maida, 55, 72, 86, 174 Manning, Cardinal, 161, 162 ' Marmion,' 91, 215, 219 Mary, Queen, 180 Mathieson, Peter, 65, 122, 196 'Kingdom of Border Romance,' Melrose, 5, 121, 169, 210 136 Kinnedder, Lord, 140 Kirn, the, 60 Knox, John, 42 Abbey, 23, 39, 86 Bridge, 116, 169 Cross, 214 Session Records, 21 St. Boswells, 210 St. Mary's Chapel of the Lowes, Saintsbury, Mr., 125 Charlotte Sophia, 153 Lady (second), 152 Mary Monica Hope (Hon. Walter Joseph, 155 |