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to put the Jottings together; but I have found the doing of it pleasurable, and would fain hope that to those who have read them there may also have been some pleasure at times, as the reader made his way through the autumn leaves of along life. And so, once more

ADIEU.

ABERCROMBY, Dr., 100.
Academy: Edinburgh, 137; classes
too large, 141; too hasty advances,
142, 143; Cockburn's confessions,
142; false quantities, 143-146;
games under difficulties, 153;
change in the Fifties, 153; good
field, 154; sanitary arrangements,
154; now flourishing, 161; munifi-
cent gifts, 161; "the yards," 152,
153; great changes, 269, 270; suc-
cess at sports, 274.
Adam, Lord, advice to me, 315, 316.
Advertisements on old town, 483.
Advertising stations of Town Coun-
cil, 86, 483, 484, 485.
Advocates: Faculty of, 369; bad bus-
iness men, 369; sales of their prop-
erty, 369; coin sale, 371; cabinet,
371, 372; library improvement,
379.

Aeroplane, 494, 425.

African (South) War, 464.
Alexandra, Queen, Drawing-room,

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Baird, Alexander, 20, 21, 22.
Balfour, L. J.-General, 161.
"Band"-stand, ill-placed, 411.
Bank, City of Glasgow, 374.
Bank of Scotland, 84, 85.
Bar: admission to, 289; examination
farce, 289; the thesis, 290; stories,
291-295, 348, 349; the Bar-room,
331, 332; no jealousy at, 331, 332;
early struggles at, 333.
Beards, 47, 48.

Beecher Stowe, Mrs., 132.
Begbie, Dr., 249.

Bell, Dr. Joseph, 249.

Bell, Professor, 233, 234.

Benholme, Lord, 341.
Blackie, Professor, 250, 435.
Blackwood, Wm., 96.
Blackwood's Magazine, 96.
Bodyguard. See Royal Archers.
Boer War, training camp, 464.
Bonnets, 239.

Botanic Gardens, 215.
Bough, Sam, 264, 265.
"Bow mark," 272, 273.

Boyhood, 123 et seq., 127 et seq.
Boyle, L. J.-General, 105.
Boys' dress, 43, 44.
Brewster, Sir David, 98.
Brigade, the Forth, 464.
Brigadier-General, appointment as,
464.

Bright, John, 445.
Brown, Dr. John, 254.

Bunsen, mistaken prophecy, 227.
Burke's trial, 115.

Butt, ancient archery, 271, 273.

CADELL, Col., V.C., 160.
Caledonian Railway Hotel, 359, 413.
"Caller-ow-oo," 54.

Calton Hill: misused, 199; beating
carpets, 199; washing greens, 199;
Forrest's Statuary, 199; Short's
Observatory, 200; railings on, 400,
401, 402, 403.

Castle, Edinburgh, 211, 212.
Cathedral (St. Giles'), 207.
Cathedral (St. Mary's), 216.

Chairmen, sedan, 25; their drams,27,
28.

Chamberlain, Mr., 443, 444.
Chambers, Sir William, 207; restora-
tion of St. Giles', 385, 386.
Chartist Riots, 193.
Chiene, Professor, 249.
Childhood, early, 3.

Children: lying to, 67, 68; trials of,
69, 70; sharpness of, 71, 72.
Chimney, gasworks', 202, 203.
Christison, Professor, 249.
Christopher North, 95.

Church of Scotland, Disruption of,
63-65; insult to, 454, 455, 456.
Circuit Courts, 323, ceremony at,

324, 325 et seq.

Circus Place School, 123.

City Chambers, 201; shops in ar-

ches, 201.

City cross, 438.

Clerk Maxwell, 149, 159.

Cockburn Association,391,392,393.
Cockburn, Lord, 98, 142, 164, 425;
Cockburn St.,85;west barrack,213.
Cockburn Street, 85.

Colonsay, Lord, 111, 337.
Commissioner's Day, 169.
Connaught, Duke of, 464.
Constables, special, 363.
Court buildings, 115, 116.
Court of Session, 104, 105, 376, 377.
Crabbie, donor to Academy, 161.
Cricket, 270, 274; importance of
fielding, 274.

Criminal Law Amendment Act, 446.
Criminal Law Treatise, 316, 317.
Criminal sentences, 109; now more

lenient, 110.

Crinoline, 242, 243.

Crompton, Colonel, 259, 497.
Croquet, 240.

Cross, city, 438, 439.

Cross-examination, 304, 305, 312.
Cumming, Dr., 137.

DAVIDSON, Dr., 100.

Dean of Faculty, 344; my appoint-
ment, 378.

Deas, Lord, 338, 346.

Death: Prince Consort, 355; Queen
Victoria, 473.
Death-rate, 486, 487.

Diagnosis, erroneous, 230, 231, 232.
Diamond Jubilee, 471, 472.

Discipline of Volunteers, 384, 385.

Disruption, 63-67.

Doctors differ, 230, 231, 466.

Drawing-room at Holyrood,478,479.
Dress. See Fashions.

Drill, my last work at, 500, 501.

Drowning, memory in, 177.
Duke of Edinburgh, 362.
Duncan, Dr. John, 249.
Dundas of Arniston, statue, 379.

EARLIEST memories, 3.
Edinburgh: the Mound, 75, 76; the
Nor' Loch, 75; both a disgrace,
76, 77; hideous buildings, 78; pro-

posal to build street on Mound,
78; ditto on North Bridge, 78;
ditto on slope of Esplanade, 78;
ditto on south of Princes St., 78;
PrincesSt.,78,79;Nor' Loch, filthy,
80, 81; railway station, 82, 83, 84;
Bank of Scotland, 84, 85; Cock-
burn St.,85;Town Council erecting
posters, 86; bald style of buildings,
87; increase of buildings, 88, 89;
West End extension, 90; the
Castle, 211; Parliament Hall, 212;
the "Cotton Mill," 213; Duke of,
362; Territorial Association, 466,
467.

Edinburgh Review, 96.

Edward, King: review of Territor-
ials, 478; memorial to, 473, 474.
Edward, Prince of Wales, accident
to, 235.

Elections, the hustings, 191.
Electric telegraph, 225, 226, 228.
English ignorance of Scotland, 185,
186.

Esplanade, proposal to build shan-

ties on slope, 79:

Ewart, Lt.-Gen. Sir Spencer, 352.

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Gas, 182, 183.

Gasworks' chimneys, 202, 203; now
removed, 204.

Geddes, Professor, 404.
George, King, visit to Edinburgh,
478; Levee, 478; Drawing-room,
478, 479; Order of Thistle, 480.
George Street, 87.

"Gib," sweetmeat, 125.
Giles. See St. Giles.

Gillespie, Dr., 249.

Gilmour, donor to Academy, 161.
Gladstone, Mr., restores city cross,
439.

Glasgow, City of, Bank, 374,
375.

Gloag, Dr., a great teacher, 147, 148,

149.

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Illuminations, Queen's first visit, 8-
10; Prince of Wales' marriage,
359, 360.

Increase of Edinburgh, 88, 89.
Influenza epidemic, 377, 378.
Inglis, L. J.-General, 337, 339.
Injustice to children, 124, 125.

JEALOUSY, none at Bar, 332.
Jeffrey, Lord, 95.

Jeune, Lady, the salon, 443.
Jubilee, Queen Victoria's, 453; Dia-
mond Jubilee, 471.

Judges: proposal to reduce number,

376; great increase of duties, 377.
Jury, the handling of, 311.
Justiciary,Court of,108,329; import-

ance of attendance at, 304, 305.

KING EDWARD. See Edward.
King George. See George.
King's Bodyguard, 477, 478.
Kinloch, Lord, 341, 342.
Kinross, Lord, 349.
Knowall, A, 347.

LAUGHING-GAS day, 221, 222, 223.
Law Courts, 104.
Law study, 233.

Lawn tennis, 240, 241.

Lee, Principal, 98.
Lister, Professor, 249.

Little pitchers, 72.

Littlejohn, Sir H. D., great sanitary
work, 486, 487.

Logic, parental, 67, 118, 179.
London, unprogressive, 184.
Lord-Advocate, appointed as, 443.
Lord High Commissioner, 169.
Lord Justice-Clerk, appointment as,
461.

Lord Provosts: Black, M'Laren,
Lawson, Chambers, Boyd, Clark,
Cranston, 417 et seq.

Lying to children, 67, 68.

MACAULAY, T. Babington, 192, 193.
M'Culloch, 265.

M'Ewan Hall, 216, 437, 486.
Macgregor, Rev. Dr., 257, 258.
Mackenzie, Lord (1), 105.
Mackenzie, Lord (2), 341.

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