[1] See More Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands.

[2] From A Peep at Russia.

[3] From The Old Lieutenant and his Son.

[4] Other names have been associated with this anecdote, but Norman for my money.

[5] From The Old Lieutenant.

[6] Cf. Tennyson’s line, so much praised by Mr. Swinburne—

‘And stormy crests that smoke against the sky.’

[7] Cf. Professor Max MÜller: ‘From what I know of the Hindoos, they seem to me riper for Christianity than any nation that ever accepted the gospel. It does not follow that the Christianity of India will be the Christianity of England; but that the new religion of India will embrace all the essential elements of Christianity I have no doubt, and that is surely something worth fighting for.’ (Letter to Norman Macleod in Memoir, vol. ii. p. 257.)