5 DECEMBER 1914, Page 37

A handsome volume has been devoted . to short biographies and

portraits of Famous Edinburgh Students (T. N. Foulis, Ss. net), from Drunimond of Hawthornden to Robert Louis Stevenson. More than Edinburgh men will be interested in Such out-of-the-way facts as that .Carlyle walked all the way from Ecelefechan to Edinburgh for his matriculation, that Boswell narrowly escaped missing Dr. Johnson by recs.iving a commission in the Guards, and that Professor Simpson's cash- book contained such entries as "Finnen Hadies 2d. and Bones of the Leg Ells."