" The Heart of Midlothian" 



seat,"* the Athens of the Anglo-Saxon 

 world ! There stands the queenly city, 

 now, as ever, the rock of Scotland's 

 hopes, her graceful towers and hoary 

 battlements, her halls of learning and 

 her classic monuments, bathed in the 

 mingled sunshine and the mists that lure 

 the purple heather from the distant 

 Pentland hills! "None know her but 

 to love her." May she endure forever! 

 Here in America a new heart in a 

 new Midlothian has now been set. It 

 is also a form of prison, in its way 

 one that brings a mild form of grief to 

 certain unfortunates trapped within 

 its walls. But this, our heart, is not 

 a gloomy pile of cold gray stones set 

 up to mark a district's geographic 

 centre. It lies imbedded in soft earth 

 and verdure in the midst of "green 



*The Lothians comprise a division of country in Scotland, on 

 the south border on the Firth of Forth, of great extent anciently, 

 but in modern times restricted to the counties of Haddington or 

 East Lothian, Edinburgh or Mid-Lothian, and Linlithgow or West 

 Lothian. When the designation Edinburghshire is used, the words 

 "or Mid-Lothian" are added often, Mid-Lothian used alone not 

 requiring any auxiliary addi^n. There is a movement on foot 

 to adopt the terms East Lothian for Haddingtonshire, and West 

 Lothian for Linlithgowshire, exclusively, so as to establish harmony 

 of designation. 



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