The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-14
NO TIP-roP GIANTS

learning and among the authors, essayists,
etc, but this is all that could he said. The
giants do not stalk about tine streets at this
time. When l was told that there are
twenty poets now living in Edinburgh, | re-
piled that | knew over a hundred in. New
York, and that this is but 1.-THE Of the
number in Chicago.
There are three men of other days whose
stars shine with especial luster in the Scot
fish HORIZON, and who live in Scotland's
heart and life-Jom Knox. Robert Burns
AMI Walter Scott Of course, Robert Bruce
and William Wallace are also names to con-
jure with.
JOHN KNox's HOUSE.
In High street one sees the nOndescript,
quantity gabled and shattered old stone
house, which. over three centuries ago, was
was the abode of the grim and fiery religious
revOlntionist, John Knox, who was the
chief agent in turning Scotland to CALVIN
ism. In the same street may be seen the
grand Cathedral of ST. Giles in which Knox
preached, and from the pulpit of which, as
shown in a well-known picture, he thun-
dered in a way that shook the cathedral,
the palace, the castle, the whole city and the
kingdom If Scotland.
THE FOOTPRINTS OF BOBBY BURNS.
There is no difficulty in tracing the foot
prints of Burns in Edinbu gh, Here is the
house in which he used to hold high jinks
with his fripnd MOubOddO and in which lie
wrote, "a Mans Man for That. Here
is the queer house in which he was chosen
poet laureate of a lodge of Free MasonS;
here is tavern in which he spent many
jOvial hours; here are several places In
which he headquarters at various times; and
there are vet other sUOtS in Edinburgh as
sOciated with his name.
FIsH-WIvES AND KILTIES.
One sees picturesque costumes in this city.
Look at tile Staiwart fish-n ives marching
hp oats hs.lr hE1N- Aal
on their broad hacks and wearing wooden
pettieoatS that give a good view of their
solid sh nES. Look now at the advocates in
wig aud gown. Look at the boys in kits,
or at that marching band Of youngsters
therein. Look at the piperS playing their
Skirling and drooiing hagpipeS. Look at the
killed regiment, the Cameron Highlanders,
now stationed in the castle, and the members
Of which are always to tie seen in the
streets, proud of their bare show from knee
to calf. Look 1t the gay flowers that deco
rate almost every breast IN Princess street
at this season of the year.
TIE OLD LINGO.
The old Scotch dialect has still very
strong hold upon the folk at large. Ii is I'M
possible for an American to understand it
when it is broad, and 1t is very broad among
the rusticS. In Edinburgh itself one hears
many words that are not in Webster's Die
tiOnarv, and even among people OF the
cultured stripe many words are pronounced
in way that sounds strange to the ear Of an
outsider. But you viii give offense if you
speak Of the Scotch dialect as = brogue,"
for it is the real old genuine original Thing
that has been passed along from the Morse
men.
PREACHERS.
have attended the services at number
of the churches of the various sects of Pres
byterianism here. The sermons that | heard
we're dull. formal and whlm-wham. he
preachers all looked firshy and dronish as
they stood up in their black silk robes in
their pulpits
The beauty of Edinburgh is enhanced by
the many gardens, parks and recreation
grounds 10 be seen in the city itself and on
the outskirts, from the PrincesS-street Gar
dens TO the Meadows the Links and so
forth The city is liberal in its expenditures
for their maintenan e.
DOWN A wYND.
found the home in which Scott lived be-
fore he built Abbotsford, and the homes or
haunts of many other swells and blg-wlgs.
/ found down a rickety wynd the house in
which Boswell entertained Johnson, and
next to which found in a dOlorous house, the
stone stairs OF which are almost worn out by
the generations that have tTOd them, we'll
known university professor and bOtaniSt,
Professor Geddes, who lives in this foul ana
Impoverished locality in order hat he may
study the social question and the practical
means of its solution.
THE NEW FREE LIBRARY.
l have been interested in the superb edifice
recently built here by the generosity of
Andrew Carnegie of Pittsburg as Il free
public library, aad which he had the good
Judgment to raise near an antique and I'M
pOverished part of the city. 1t contains a
Teading-room, reference library, lending
library and children's library. When l