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Is • his loyalty to his sovereign a part of the Scotch- 

 man's strength, one of the elements which helps him 

 on, the world over, in life's hard struggle ? 



It is not only in distant portions of the British 

 Empire we find the Scot to the front in the field of 

 thought or mart of commerce ; our own Dominion testifies 

 also to that fact. I hope I may not give offence even 

 in this period of upheaval, when the tide of popular 

 rights is surging so high, in saying, en passant, a word 

 in favor of successful loyalty. (Loud applause.) 



That August week was indeed a bustling, busy one 

 for all Edinburgh. The iron-horse had just landed my 

 daughter and myself, late at night, after the long ride 

 from Euston Square Railway Station, London, under 

 the shadow of the gorgeous monument erected on 

 Princes street, in 1844, at the cost of $80,000 to the 

 man in Scottish literature, I revered the most: Sir 

 Walter Scott. The first sunbeam brought me across 

 the street, on my bedroom window, the exquisite 

 tracery of this lofty and graceful shaft. 



Every object round me seemed to repeat the name 

 and bespeak the renown of the famous minstrel, the 

 " Ariosto of the North " : Waverley Monument, Waver- 

 ley Hotel, Waverly Garden, Waverley Station, Waver- 

 ley Market. In fact it looked as if the first to greet 

 me was the immortal author of Waverley, ; ' from his 

 monument seated on a rock, in his niche, wrapped in a 

 shepherd's plaid, with a book and pen in his hand, 

 resting on his knee and his favorite dog, Maida, lying 

 at his feet, and looking up wistfully at his master ; " all 

 so well depicted on the marble. 



There was poesy, genius, patriotism, confronting me, 

 in the streets, in the air, above, below ; all around me 

 Scott's fame overshadowed, permeated, glorified the 

 land. (Applause.) I was too full of Waverley lore, 

 of Lockhart's life-like portraiture of Sir Walter, to be 

 easily satisfied. An Edinburgh barrister, distantly con- 

 nected with Scott's family, Mr. Thomas Scott, procured 



