The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

226 7he Highland Monthly.
like the society he was associated with. It is, at least,
true that his character as represented in the Noctes
should be thrown aside, and that Hogg should stand out as
he really deserves, and as Professor Veitch has so aptly
said, " as one of the Scotchmen of the truest, finest native
genius, filling a place in Scottish poetry which is unique,
and as having done certain things which no other has done
so well."
[to be continued.]