Friend Mac Donald

ploits of a Scotchman.-Scottish Students.-All the Students study.-A useful Library.-A Fam

his nation. Thomas Carlyle would have passed a whole year searching out the exact date of the most insi

tones, and Gordons. Never were there brighter illustrations of

omitable Scots. I have known some whose perfo

at I have fres

f the great public schools of England. He began with the elementary clas

er of his intention,

ou have very special aptitude for Greek, and that if you will but direct your attenti

he most enterprising of men. A Scotchma

aster accep

, turned his back on his friends,

onsecrating to them that which, at his age, is

n him from the en

s. Nothing that had been written by poet, phil

but the last touches had been put to the manuscript of a book, which, when it appeared three months

f the brightest lights in the higher

f Scotland offer, perhaps, the most stri

nd all sorts of students, espec

d, all stu

r "residing" (such is the less pretentious name in

America, the poorest young men may aspire to universi

eing very interesting, very touching. I borrow them, for the most part, fro

appearance, who dined but three times a week, and then upon

e hearthrug would naturally have been, he would lie there, learning his task by the light of a fire, made

ile attending Aberdeen University, they had no other lodging. The bed was a very narrow one, and quite incap

lided noiselessly to his place. This mystery was explained when it was learned that he had been a hotel waiter. During the winter he pursued his

a professor called his name suddenly, he wou

nvirons of the town as fast as he could run. It was at last discovered that he kept a little book shop at some distance from th

errings and a barrel of potatoes, sent him from home. The poor fellow's health so ga

ho fell a victim to his thirst for knowledge. The poor fellow had so weakened his s

University of Oxford. Exception must, however,

do we f

ves at Oxford, thanks to their frugality and industry. It is not unfreq

the Scotch can