CHAPTER V.

The Old Curiosity Shop on Germain Street--A Quaint Old Place --"Rubbish Shot Here"--Notman's Studio--The Mother of Methodism --Destruction of the Germain Street Methodist Church--Burning of the Academy of Music--The Old Grammar School--Presbyterians among the Loyalists--The "Auld Kirk"--Saint Andrew's--The Grants of Land--Legislation--The Building of the Kirk--Ministers--The "Victoria" in Flames--Fascination of the Fire--The "Victoria" in Ruins--What might have saved it 48