Friend Mac Donald

Ah! my dear Donald, what good stories you told me in the few months that I had the pleasure of passing with you! How you stuffed and saturated me with them!

Donald, a British subject, but no Englishman. -- Opinion of the greatest English Wit on the Scotch, and the worth of that Opinion. -- The Wit of Donald and the Wit of the Cockne...

All Scots know how to reckon. -- Rabelais in Scotland. -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up. -- Difference between buying and stealing. -- Scotch Hones...

The traditional Hospitality of the Highlands. -- One more fond Belief gone. -- Highland Bills. -- Donald's Two Trinities. -- Never trust Donald on Saturdays or Mondays. -- The G...

Resemblance of Donald to the Norman. -- Donald marketing. -- Bearding a Barber. -- Norman Replies. -- Cant. -- Why the Whisky was not marked on the Hotel Bill. -- New Use for th...

Democratic Spirit in Scotland. -- One Scot as good as another. -- Amiable Beggars. -- Familiarity of Servants. -- Shout all together! -- A Scotchman who does not admire his Wife...

Scottish Perseverance. -- Thomas Carlyle, David Livingstone, and General Gordon. -- Literary Exploits of a Scotchman. -- Scottish Students. -- All the Students study. -- A usefu...

Good old Times. -- A Trick. -- Untying Cravats. -- Bible and Whisky. -- Evenings in Scotland. -- The Dining-room. -- Scots of the Old School. -- Departure of the Whisky and Arri...

Religion and Churches in Scotland. -- Why Scotch Bishops cut a poor Figure. -- Companies for insuring against the Accidents of the Life to come. -- Religious Lecture-Rooms. -- N...

Donald's Relations with the Divinity. -- Prayers and Sermons. -- Signification of the Word "Receptivity." -- Requests and Thanksgivings. -- "Repose in Peace." -- "Thou Excelleds...

The Scotch Sabbath. -- The Saviour in the Cornfield. -- A good Advertisement. -- Difference between the Inside and the Outside of a Tramcar. -- How useful it is to be able to sp...

It seems strange that in this country, so religious as it is, most of the anecdotes which the people are fond of relating should refer to religion, and that the hero of them sho...

I have spoken in a preceding chapter of the picturesque manner in which the Scotch people of the old school express themselves. Here are two or three examples which will well il...

Family Life -- "Can I assist you?" -- "No, I will assist myself, thank you." -- Hospitality in good Society. -- The Friends of Friends are Friends. -- When the Visitors come to...

Little Sketches of Family Life in Scotland. -- The Scotchman of "John Bull and his Island." -- Painful Explanations. -- As a Father I love you, as a Customer I take you in. -- A...

In Scotland, matrimonial ceremonies are as simple as they are practical. No priest, no mayor brought into requisition; you take God and your friends to witness. You present your...

Donald is not easily knocked down. -- He calmly contemplates Death, especially other People's. -- A thoughtful Wife. -- A very natural Request. -- A Consolable Father. -- "Job,"...

Intellectual Life in Scotland. -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be. -- Comparisons. -- Literary and Scientific Societies. -- Why should not France possess su...

These universities differ essentially from the two great English ones, first because men go there to work, secondly because they are open to the people. A peasant's son, like Th...

To take only the great names, it may safely be said that more touching and sublime poetry than that of Burns was never written, that Walter Scott was the greatest novelist of th...

The reel demands great agility. Two swords are placed crosswise on the ground and, to the sound of bagpipes, Donald executes double and triple pirouettes in and out, carefully a...

The Wisdom of Scotland. -- Proverbs. -- Morals in Words and Morals in Deeds. -- Maxims. -- The Scot is a Judge of Human Nature. -- Scotch and Norman Proverbs compared. -- Practi...

Massacre Of The English Tongue. -- Donald The Friend Of France. -- Scotch Anecdotes Again. -- Reason Of Their Drollery. -- Picturesque Dialect. -- Dry Old Faces. -- A Scotch Cha...

The Staff of Life in Scotland. -- Money is round and flat. -- Cheap Restaurants. -- Democratic Bill of Fare. -- Caution to the Public. -- "Parritch!" -- The Secret of Scotland's...

Now, to come at once to the sense of the matter, will you allow me for once--for once only--to pay myself a compliment that I think I well deserve? It is the word "Ireland," whi...

Glasgow. -- Origin of the Name. -- Rapid Growth of the City. -- St. Mungo's Injunction to Donald. -- James Watt and the Clyde. -- George Square. -- Exhibition of Sculpture in th...

Edinburgh -- Glasgow's Opinion thereof, and vice versa. -- High Street. -- The old Town. -- John Knox's House. -- The old Parliament House. -- Holyrood Palace. -- Mary Stuart. -...

Where are the Scotch? -- Something wanting in the Landscape. -- The Inhabitants. -- The Highlanders and the Servant Girls. -- Evening in Princes Street. -- Leith and the Firth o...

Aberdeen, the Granite City. -- No sign of the Statue of "you know whom." -- All Grey. -- The Town and its Suburbs. -- Character of the Aberdonian. -- Why London could not give a...

The Thistle. -- "Nemo me impune lacessit." -- "Honi soit qui Mollet pince." -- Political Aspirations of the Scotch. -- Signification of Liberalism in Scotland. -- Self-Governmen...