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The night, or rather twilight, wore away, and after leaving Aberdeen, the "granite REPLIES:-Paigle-A MS. of Tasso, 90-While Until-city," in the early morning under the rising sun, "Wooden walls"-" Will-o'-the-Wisp "-Marshalsea, 91Virtù-"Bradshaw's Railway Guide," 92-Solomon's Seal, 03-Curious Coin-Easter Monday-"Villikins and his Dinah "—23rd Fusileers-Why as a Surname-Paul Herring, SOTES ON BOOKS: - Burke's "History of Dormant Lates. A VISIT TO ORKNEY. From boyhood a visit to an old cathedral, church, or hall, or a ramble over a battlefield, like Towton, Marston Moor, or Naseby, has had an inexpresable charm. Mouldering castles-as Conisborough, Middleham, Richmond, and Pomfret-have been often visited; day-dreams indulged in amid ruined abbeys, like Fountains, Bolton Priory, and Jervaulx. Like "the touch of a vanish'd hand and the sound of a voice that is still," reminiscences of such visits, and of the days that have gone rise within us when return has taken place to a solitary dwelling, where the pleasures of literature stand in stead of other delight. Though the neighbourhood possesses large infusion of the literate element it can scarcely be said to consist of literary people. It would be difficult to find a copy of Shakspere or of Sir Walter Scott. On the present occasion, after leaving an "Ultima Thule" residence in Suffolk, as it was aptly styled by learned friend of mine, a little time was pleasantly pent at Moffat, and then a voyage to Orkney was decided upon in order to see the cathedral of St. Magnus and some of the places mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in the excellent novel The Pirate. Minna and Brenda, Norna and Cleveland, Magnus Troil and Triptolemus Yellowley had been "house the steamer pursued her course, flinging aside the Our fleetest falcon scarce can fly She held on her course well, leaving only for a |