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Title: Scottish notes and queries
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: Genealogy
Publisher: (Aberdeen : D. Wyllie and Son)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ons, and the progress oldiscovery in the physical sciences, but above all inwhat are called the Useful Arts, will, as far as spacepermits, be attended to with the degree of interestdue to their importance, as the chief instruments,under the guidance of a gracious Providence, of all thecivilization and improvement which mark the highestcondition- of the human family. After rather high dow n references to themariners compass, the steam-engine, and theprinting-press, Johnstone says ; ■To the young, The Schoolmaster will .study tosupply, along with useful information and subjects forintellectual exercise, .snatches id thai graceful andhumanizing light literature with which contemporarylimes abound. In this department the onl) thingwanting is moite ample space :* there can never lackan abundance of the richest and most varied materials. As this small Miscellany is intended for the Many for the great mass of the lieople— that mighty classfrom which in every country the greatest men have
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January, 1893.) SCO TUSH NOTES AND QUERIES. 121 arisen, —from which in our own land, and almost inour own day, have sprung a Burns, a Cullen, a, Conic,a Ferguson, a Wall, .... we shall, in catering forthem, address ourselves at once, as if to the best orderof capaeities ; ami with milk for babes that will yetbe men, furnish food for strong men, believing thatour world is old enough to relish the fitting nourish-ment of masculine intellects. I have quoted thus at length from the editorsAddress, because it gives a good idea of theobject of the periodical, and of the spirit in whichJohnstone buckled to his work; and also be-cause The Schoolmaster, alike in aim and execu-tion, is a fair specimen of the many publicationswhich about that period were called into exist-ence in consequence of the sudden and greatsuccess of Chamberss Edinburgh Journal.William Chambers, it will be remembered, whostarted his Journal six months before the appear-ance of The Schoolmaster, far from debiting, likeJ

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