11 FEBRUARY 1899, Page 15

LINKS WITH THE PAST.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SFECTILTOR."1 SIR,—Here is an addition to your interesting list of "links with the past." A relative of mine was talking the other week to an old man who had seen Sir Walter Scott (at the great Carterhaugh football match, in the year of Waterloo). Sir Walter himself, in writing of his mother's remarkable know- ledge of past times, says : "She had often spoken to a person who perfectly recollected Cromwell's entry into Edinburgh." Here, therefore, we have a " link " between 1899 and 1650.-