{2} I Had Nearly Finished The Transcription Of The Following Pages When I Saw On A Friend's Table The Number Containing The Piece From Which This Sentence Is Extracted, And, Struck With A Similarity Of Title, Took It Home With Me And Read It With Indescribable Satisfaction.

I do not know whether I more envy M. Theuriet the pleasure of having written this delightful article, or the reader the pleasure, which I hope he has still before him, of reading it once and again, and lingering over the passages that please him most.

{3} William Abercrombie. See Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanae, under 'Maybole' (Part iii.).

{4} 'Duex poures varlez qui n'ont nulz gages et qui gissoient la nuit avec les chiens.' See Champollion - Figeac's Louis et Charles d'Orleans, i. 63, and for my lord's English horn, ibid. 96.

{5} Reprinted by permission of John Lane.

{6} 'Jehovah Tsidkenu,' translated in the Authorised Version as 'The Lord our Righteousness' (Jeremiah xxiii. 6 and xxxiii. 16).

{7} Compare Blake, in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell: 'Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads, without improvement, are roads of Genius.'

*** END OF Essays of Travel, by Robert Louis Stevenson***

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