A Corner in St. Andrews Churchyard (J.P. Struthers)

Mr. Halyburton is best known by his Memoirs, a book which Rabbi Duncan called one of the great books of the world. You may get it for less than sixpence at most old book-stalls. A little before he died he said, "I was just thinking on the bonnie spot of earth that I will get to lie in, beside Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Forrester, and Principal Anderson, and I will get my pleasant George" (his dead son) "in my hand; and oh! we will be a knot of bonnie dust!"

(First appeared in The Morning Watch for July 1896)

[Comment by Highland Host: Mr. Struthers' remark on the ease with which Halyburton's Memoirs may be obtained is no longer true. The Memoirs of Halyburton have since become a very scarce book. The James Begg Society of Aberdeen have, however, recently published a new edition of Halyburton's works, the most complete ever published, and Halyburton's Memoirs are to be found in the fourth volume. American readers may find the book here.]