Excerpt from Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Unavailing regrets. The present volume is made up of Reminiscences partly personal and partly communicated. Had I published all those contributed I should have swelled the book to a size much beyond its present dimensions. It would not be easy to explain for all cases the principle of selection. I have very anxiously avoided being tedious, and have sought to submit to others only what seemed to myself to be at once pointed and characteristic. I make no doubt I have omitted many things which might have been safely adopted, but I preferred erring on the side of giving too little to that of giving too mat/9. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.