ly libraries, the model schools, the hospitals, the churches, even the shops of the lapidaries, where the Scottish pebble is made to take its place among gems, the club-rooms, in whose luxurious arrangement men may sometimes overlook the humbler "blink of their ain fireside," the publishing houses, from whence the influence of genius and learning hath gone forth over Europe and the world; these, and many other localities which the time would fail to specify, were visited with eagerness, either on their own account, or because they appertained to this Modern Athens. The hospitality of Scotland, and the frankness with which she receives the stranger into her heart of hearts, were fully illustrated in her favorite and most intellectual city. For me, it was deepened by that kindness which sudden sickness calls forth in sympa- thetic and Christian hearts. And it was not without surprise, that I, who had maintained a sort of concealed homesickness, a nightly yearning after my distant dear ones, found my eyes wet with tears, and a new home-feeling painfully uprooted, at bidding farewell to Edinburgh.
