[2] _Vide_ that piece of arrant Jeromeism, _My Lady Nicotine_.
[3] Andrew Lang, “Magic Mirrors and Crystal-gazing,” _Monthly Review_, February, 1902.
[4] The Free University Education Scheme of Dr. Andrew Carnegie (many times millionaire, beloved of the American steel worker, and author of a book called _Triumphant Democracy_, if you please) will no doubt change all this.
[5] George Lockhart, _Memoirs Concerning the Affairs of Scotland from Queen Anne’s Accession to May, 1707_.
[6] John Hill Burton, D.C.L., LL.D., _The Scot Abroad_.
[7] “English and Scotch,” _The British Weekly_, January 16, 1902.
[8] “English and Scotch,” _The British Weekly_, January 16, 1902.
[9] “The Battle of Bannockburn was won by the Scotch in 1314. Here’s tae us, wha’s like us?”—_Scotch Toast._
[10] George Vivian Poore, _A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence_, 1901.
[11] There are some people who think they sufficiently acquit themselves, and entertain their company, with relating facts of no consequence, but at all out of the road of such common incidents as happen every day; and this I have observed more frequently among the Scots than any other nation, who are very careful not to omit the minutest circumstances of time or place; which kind of discourse, if it were not a little relieved by the uncouth terms and phrases, as well as accent and gesture peculiar to that country, would be hardly tolerable.—Jonathan Swift, _Hints towards an Essay on Conversation_.
[13] Mr. Spielman has assured us that seventy-five per cent. of the jokes accepted from outsiders by _Punch_ come from Scotland; this, however, only tends to show that Lamb and Smith knew what they were talking about, for it is everywhere admitted that if you want humour, you must make a point of avoiding _Punch_.
[14] “It may be surely counted not without significance among ethnical phenomena that, though France has all along shown in her language the predominance of the Latin race, three infusions of northern blood had been successively poured into the country: first, the Franks; then the Normans; and, lastly, the Scots. It seems not unreasonable that these helped to communicate to the vivacity and impetuosity of the original race those qualifications of enterprise and endurance which were needed to make up the illustrious history of France.”—_The Scot Abroad._