RAB AND HIS FRIENDS AND OTHER PAPERS

By John Brown, M.D., F.R.S.E.

New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers

1903

"Ce fagotage de tant si diverses pièces, se fait en cette condition: que je n'y mets la main, que lors qu'une trop lasche oysisvetê vie presse—michel de Montaigne.

Artist's Edition. With Numerous New Illustrations By Jessie Shepherd And William A. Mccullough

Original

Original

"The treatment of the illustrious dead by the quick, often reminds me of the gravedigger in Hamlet, and the skull of poor defunct Yorick."—w.h.b.

"Multi ad sapientiam pervenire potuissent, nisi se jam pervenisse putassent."

"There's nothing so amusing as human nature, but then you must have some one to laugh with."—C. S. B.

"Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears."—Sir P. Sidney.

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.

HER LAST HALF-CROWN.

OUR DOGS

TOBY

WYLIE.

RAB.

WASP

JOCK

DUCHIE

DICK

QUEEN MARY'S CHILD-GARDEN.

'ATXINOIA—NEARNESS OF THE NOUS—PRESENCE OF MIND.

LETTER TO JOHN CAIRNS, D.D.

DR. CHALMERS

DR. GEORGE WILSON.

NOTES ON ART.

DISTRAINING FOR RENT.

THOMAS DUNCAN.

PALESTRINA.

HUNT THE SLIPPER.

THREE LANDSEERS.

THE RANDOM SHOT.

THE EXECUTION OF LADY JANE GREY.

NAPOLEON AT FONTAINEBLEAU BEFORE HIS ABDICATION.

NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS.

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.

RIZPAH.

THE GLEN OF THE ENTERKIN.

DAWN—LUTHER IN THE CONVENT LIBRARY AT ERFURT.

BEAUTY, ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE.

"OH, I'M WAT, WAT."

EDUCATION THROUGH THE SENSES.

THE BLACK DWARF'S BONES.