11 MARCH 1871, page 20

Gone Like A Shadow.*

WHEN an acquaintance is bent upon telling us about)ome friend of his, we are apt to put him at his ease, by saying either honestly or with a reservation, that "we believe we......

Scotch Sermons.*

" ALLow me to make the sermons of a people, and I care not who may make its laws." That is quite as sound a dictum as the say- ing which was quoted by Fletcher of Saltoun, and......