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a novel which is still worth looking into for a few 

 scenes in which the poetry and romance of military life, 

 under conditions now obsolete, are admirably set forth. 

 Of the storming of the heights of Roleia, the lines of 

 Torres Vedras, the siege of Badajos, and the battle of 

 Albuera, the author wrote as an eye-witness. In the 

 same house, Lockhart himself wrote his " Spanish Ballads," 

 and two or thiee novels. 



Rev. Archibald Craig. 



In the secluded manse of Bedrule, before the end of 

 1859, a scholarly Border minister, the Rev. Archibald 

 Craig, translated into English heroic verse the Argonautica 

 of the Alexandrian poet, Apollonius Rhodius. I have 

 compared his version of the most celebrated passage in 

 the poem* with that of William Broome, who was one 

 of Pope's assistants in the translation of the Odyssey.f 

 They differ widely in character ; for Craig's version is 

 somewhat diffuse, whilst Broome's, on the other hand, 

 is avowedly condensed. Where comparison is possible, 

 however, I cannot see that Craig comes off second-best. 

 One may regret, in passing, the discontinuance of such 

 classical studies among the leisured ministers of the 

 country parishes. 



Rev. George Ridpath. 



A literary Border minister, the omission of whose 

 name from the Biographical Dictionary was a source 

 of regret to the late Rev. George Gunn, our lamented 

 Secretary (who had more than one point in common 

 with him), was the Rev. George Ridpath of Stichill. His 



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Book iii, verse 744. 

 f'Ufe of Broome," prefixed to his Poems; Cooke's Pocket Edition, 



