Show I 1 I 1 edinburgh Is quiet city with a 21 stormy past has a reputation for conviviality but Is an early closing town st giles the magnificent old cathedral has many interesting te relics it is hard bird to believe that any city could quite live his up to such a site as edinburgh s and the scotch m ero riot Ire sumptuous to call their capital thu the athens of tho the north something in scottish intellectuality his has saved ed Inbur in burgh gb though long lend bereft of 0 the that thai sh bh is nou making reid read to ask b hick ick at the hands of 0 england from sinking into more pro at the same time the cita is one of quiet maas oddly in contrast u with ith her past in spite of her repute tor for conviviality she Is an early closing town ard there Is little gainty in the streets after halt half past ten 0 clock while her besth best known non and most fashionable res tau laurant serves a verv verj indifferent table d ghotb at tu two 0 shillings sixpence sl pence reu few things in edinburgh strike the traveler ith more of 0 almost humor ous surprise than a presbyterian church A aich is really a magnificent ent old cathedral st giles although not so BO huge a structure as aman english cathedrals and less noble in outward aspect than many other great churches is a rich and glorious thing within where tho the tattered battlo battle flags of scotland hing hang in the light of win dows warm marm with mith the loveliest stained glass As to the thistle chapel it is a a little gem of wood mood caril carving ng and studiously low loss toned glazing A brass upon ono one of the inner walls malls of st giles commemorates the bold scot who summoned b bv the king of eng land declined in the roval presence to aid in fixing filing episcopacy upon scot land if st giles stands as a monument to Scot scotland lands s storm ecclesiastical icil his tory tho ruins of melrose and arbor dr borough not tar far agaj aw a in a lovely bit of scottish country speak peace to tho the al L 0 ta J ii ill 10 t f L i 1 I r t ir f kl e st giles cathedral soul of him who has an imagination easil faslli touched b bi the past melrose hemmed in as it is 13 by a populous little city loses something of its native grace though it is inexpressibly loveli ei eien en N without the moonlight that Scott recommended dryborough Dr DO borough however is nobia set in a lonely spot and noth ing in the british isles can be more touchingly touching beautiful than its mellow ruins not even the raucous voice ot of the local scottish guide the history and architecture ot of the place to forty or fifty fifth of one fellow amerl cana can spoil the effect of that rarely serene and restful spot when the guide and his attentive audience have base passed out of earshot it is something to sit amid the ruins gaze across t the ei bunns and deliciously green quad rangle enclosed by part of the walls malls and imagine the and silent monks again moving about their clois sunning the melies upon their stone benches or stalking with ared tread to at the sound ot of tho the abbey bells in the quiet of the delicious ruins sequestered from the world rutilde by a dense growth grouth 0 t noble becchers beeches bee bec ches evergreens ever eier greens and flow flom aring shrubs dv boroughs thousand years speak with a voice more elo quent than any that ever sounded from her pulpit |