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faithful domestic, Lizzy Mackeand, 1 arrived at the 

 door of No. 31 Heriot Bow, Mrs. Wedderburn's house 

 in Edinburgh. This (with occasional intervals, when 

 he was with Miss Cay) was to be James Clerk Max- 

 well's domicile for eight or nine years to come. 



The " White Horse " seen through a lunette above 

 the doorway, the quaint figure of the butler (nick- 

 named " Hornie " from the way he dressed his hair 2 ), 

 and other noticeable features of this dwelling, appear 

 and reappear in the boy's letters to his father, which 

 now become more frequent. For, although not choos- 

 ing to be much separated from James, Mr. Clerk 

 Maxwell could not be long absent from Glenlair, and 

 henceforward he lived a divided life between the two, 

 spending most of the winter evenings by his sister's 

 fireside in Edinburgh, and during most of the spring 

 and summer attending personally to the improvement 

 of his estate. 



, The Edinburgh Academy, which had been founded 

 in 1824, was in high favour with the denizens of the 

 New Town. Lord Cockburn was one of the directors. 

 The Kector, Archdeacon Williams, was an Oxford first- 

 classman, a College acquaintance of John Lockhart's, 3 

 and an admirable teacher. He had at one time been an 

 assistant master at Winchester, and had subsequently, 

 at Lockhart's recommendation, been tutor to Charles, 

 Sir W. Scott's second son. The boys in the junior 



1 Now Mrs. MacGowan, Kirkpatrick-Durham. 



2 His real name was James Craigie. 



3 The inscription beneath his bust in Balliol College, Oxford, is a 



