Memories and Portraits

CHAPTER I. THE FOREIGNER AT HOME

“This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.”

Two recent books {1} one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peop...