54 THE BANK ACCOUNTANT. 



1 Kemember England's children, Lord, 



Who on Drumossie day, 

 Deaf to the voice of kindred love, 

 " Raze, raze it quite," did say. 



' And thou, proud Gallia, faithless friend, 



Whose ruin is not far, 

 Just Heaven on thy devoted head 

 Pour all the woes of war ! 



* When thou thy slaughtered little ones 



And ravish'd dames shalt see, 

 Such help, such pity, may'st thou have 

 As Scotland had from thee.' 



' My legendary volume/ says Miller in the Schools 

 and Schoolmasters, ( was, with a few exceptions, very 

 favourably received by the critics. Leigh Hunt gave it 

 a kind and genial notice in his " Journal ; " it was cha- 

 racterized by Robert Chambers not less favourably in 

 Ms ; and Dr Hetherington, the future historian of the 

 Church of Scotland and of the Westminster Assembly of 

 Divines, at that time a licentiate of the Church, made it 

 the subject of an elaborate and very friendly critique in 

 the Presbyterian Review! We have already referred to 

 the remark on its style made by Baron Hume, and the 

 eager delight of Miller at being recognized as a worthy 

 successor of the Addisons and Goldsmiths, at whose 

 feet he had loved to sit. The book c attained no great 

 popularity ; ' but it crept gradually into circulation, and 

 moved off ' considerably better in its later editions than 

 it did on its first appearance/ 



These words are likely to prove true for an indefinite 

 period. This is one of those books which has to find 

 its readers, but which, when it has found, retains them 

 by a charm like that of old friendship and of old wine. 

 There is in it an aroma of racy thought and natural home- 

 bred feeling. We may call it a bit of genuine historical 



