tortured, and, by an act of perjury (probably unconscious) on the part of Lauderdale, was hanged. The sentiments of the poem are such as an old cavalier, surviving to 1743, might perhaps have entertained. ‘Wullie Wanbeard’ is a Jacobite name for the Prince of Orange, perhaps invented only by the post-Jacobite sentiment of the early nineteenth century. p. 117 Page 44. Rousseau’s delight. The pervenche, or periwinkle. p. 118Page 64. p. 118 One of the college bells of St. Salvator, mentioned by Ferguson, is called ‘Kate Kennedy’; the heroine is unknown, but Bishop Kennedy founded the College. ‘Kate Kennedy’s Day’ was a kind of carnival, probably a survival from that festivity. Page 77. The Disappointment. As a matter of fact the Haunted House Committee of the Society for Psychical Research have never succeeded in seeing a ghost. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty, at the Edinburgh University Press Constable
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