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famous Crozier of St. Fillan." The Quigrich or Crozier 

 of St. Fillan, so intimately connected with the devotion 

 of the great King Eobert Bruce, had an additional 

 interest for me, when I read its history so eloquently 

 told in a memoir by a Scotch savant and antiquary, 

 John Stuart L.L.D., late Secretary to the Society of 

 Antiquarians of Scotland—how it was discovered in the 

 Dewar family of Ontario — identified and pointed out 

 in the Canadian Journal of Toronto, in 1859, by 

 Professor Daniel Wilson of that city — our illustrious 

 countryman !• It cost the Society $600. Our attention 

 was next drawn to stones with " Ogham " and Eunic 

 inscriptions ; amongst the more interesting modern relics 

 may be reckoned Jenny Geddes' stool, flung at the head 

 of the Dean of Edinburgh, when Episcopacy was sought 

 to be reintroduced, in 1637; John Knox's pulpit ; the 

 "Maiden" or Scottish guillotine, by which the Eegent 

 Morton, the Marquis of Argyle, and many others, were 

 executed during the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- 

 turies ; the Thumbikins ; the Solemn League and Cove- 

 nant ; and some other remains of the social manners of 

 last century. Thanks to the well-informed Treasurer of 

 the Museum Mr. D. Douglas, I was enabled to make 

 a tolerably minute survey of the Museum of the anti- 

 quaries of Scotland. 



The " National Gallery " possesses a valuable series 

 of grand examples of William Etty, a magnificent Gains- 

 borough, the Hon. Mrs. Graham, Lord Lynedoch's 

 young wife, whose early death caused her husband to 

 seek his fate in the battle-field, but who won renown 

 instead in the Peninsular Wars — several fine Eaeburns, 

 David Eoberts' " Eome, " Sir J. Noel Paton's " Oberon 

 and Titania " pictures, and many fine specimens of 

 ancient and modern art. Flaxman's statue of Burns, 

 Lawson's terra-cotta Bard, and some models in wax by 

 Michael Angelo, are amongst the sculptures of the gal- 

 lery. A glance on the left shows Sir John Steel's mar- 

 ble statue of Allan Eamsay, author of " The Gentle 



