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TO many an elderly man, among whose most cherished possessions in bygone days was a well-thumbed copy of “Wild Sports in the Highlands” and who now from “life's passionless stage” looks fondly back on the imaginations of youth, “St. John” is still a magic name, awakening, like Campbell's wild flowers, forgotten affections. It brings with it a whiff of the smell of fresh trout frizzling in the mountain sheiling, blue with peat smoke, and calls up visions of misty moors and tumbling rivers, of “muckle harts,” wild cats and martens, and “Sweet little islands twice seen in their lakes,” gardens of the Hesperides of boyish dreams.
Charles St. John's Note Books, 1846—1853, Invererne, Nairn, Elgin.
Edited by Admiral H. C. St. John. Pp. 119. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1901.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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PIGOTT, T. Charles St. John's Note Books, 1846—1853, Invererne, Nairn, Elgin. Nature 64, 177–178 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064177a0
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