class="tocsum">Ambassador Choate's Reception.—Increasing Friendliness Between America and England.—How the English Now View the American Revolution.—A Fair Statement of the Question and the Conflict.—What England Learned from Fighting Against Her Own Principles.—The Monument of Washington in St. Paul's Cathedral.—The Possible Union of Canada and the United States,

41   CHAPTER VII. How the English Regard the Americans. Former Prejudices Passing Away.—The English Admit that America Holds the Future.—English Candor and English Inconsistency.—A Sectarian Measure in Parliament.—What Scotchmen Think of the Education Bill.—Passive Resistance of the Nonconformists, 49   CHAPTER VIII. The British Republic and the House of Commons. The Real Ruler of the British Empire.—The House of Parliament.—Getting into the Lower House.—The Debate and the Debaters.—Harcourt, Bryce, Campbell-Bannerman, Lloyd-George, John Dillon, Arthur Balfour.—The Incongruity of a Presbyterian Prime Minister.—English and American Oratory, 55   CHAPTER IX. Cambridge and her Schools. The Cathedral Route.—The Two University Towns.—Cambridge More Progressive than Oxford.—The Presbyterian Element.—The Two Most Learned Women in the World.—Westminster College.—The Same Difficulties About Candidates for the Ministry, 63   CHAPTER X. From England to Scotland— The Eastern Route. The Land of the Mountain and the Flood.—Melrose, Abbotsford, and Dryburgh.—The Wizard of the North.—Edinburgh.—Temporary Residence in Auld Reekie.—Public Worship in Scotland.—Organ, Choir, and Congregation.—Bibles in the Churches, 68   CHAPTER XI. Some English and Scotch Preachers. Dean Farrar in Westminster Abbey.—Mr. Haweis and Dr. Wace.—Spurgeon, Parker, and Hughes.—Moravian Mission House.—General Booth.—Scottish Mind and Scottish Heart.—Dr. Marcus Dods.—Dr. George Matheson.—Dr. Whyte and Mr. Black.—Interview with Professor Sayce.—The Inevitable Subject, 75   CHAPTER XII. Echoes of a Spicy Book on Scotland. A Unique Prayer for Prince Charlie.—Church-Going in Edinburgh.—The Bibles, the Sermons, the Prayers, the Music.—Jenny Geddes and her Stool.—The Disruption in 1843.—A Sermon-Taster with a Nippy Tongue.—Scottish and American Repartee, 87   CHAPTER XIII. Is the Scottish Character Degenerating? "Mine Own Romantic Town."—The Seamy Side of Edinburgh.—The Cause of Her Wretchedness.—Not Lack of Native Ability, nor Disregard of the Sabbath, but the Curse of Strong Drink.—Appalling Statistics.—A Lesser Menace, 100   CHAPTER XIV. Stirling, the Lakes, and Glasgow. The Wallace Monument.—Memorials of the Martyrs.—Margaret Wilson.—The Covenanters.—The Author of "The Men of the Moss Hags."—Aberfoyle, The Trossachs, Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond.—Lord Overtoun's Garden Party.—Rev. John McNeill.—Scotch Humor.—Glasgow.—The Cathedral.—Lord Kelvin, 107   CHAPTER XV. Oban, Iona, and Staffa. Rude Seas off the West Coast.—A Difficult Landing.—The Presbyter Abbot, Columba.—The Evangelization of Scotland from Iona.—The Burial Place of the Scottish Kings.—The Basaltic Columns of Staffa.—Fingal's Cave.—Nature's Cathedral.—The Caledonian Canal, 119   CHAPTER XVI. Inverness and Memories of Flora Macdonald. A Clean and Comely City.—The Statue of Flora Macdonald.—The Career of a Royal Adventurer.—A Fugitive in the Hebrides.—A Woman to the Rescue.—Feminine Courage and Resource.—Flora Macdonald as Prisoner.—Her Marriage.—She Entertains Dr. Johnson and Boswell.—Moves to North Carolina.—Misfortunes in the New World.—Her Return to Scotland and her Last Days, 124   CHAPTER XVII. From Scotland to England— Western Route. In and Around Perth.—Quhele, Shoe Heel and Maxton.—Crieff and Drumtochty.—Loch Leven.—Ayr and Robert Burns.—Dumfries, Keswick, Skiddaw.—The English Lakes.—Chester.—Lichfield and Dr. Samuel Johnson.—The Shakespeare Country.—The American Window at Stratford.—The English Language as Spoken in the Birthplace of Shakespeare and Elsewhere, 133