graceful poet and eloquent orator, was the son of Divie Bethune, a native of Dingwall.  Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1808-80), born in Dublin of Scottish parentage, was editor of the standard edition of “Noctes Ambrosianae,” and in 1834 became the first regular salaried correspondent of an American newspaper, the New York “Evening Star.”  Rev. Robert Turnbull (1809-77), born at Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, edited the “Christian Review” for many years and was author of several works.  James C. Moffat (1811-90), orientalist, poet, and Professor of Classics in Lafayette College, author of “Comparative History of Religions,” etc., was born in Glencree, Wigtownshire.  Robert Macfarlane (1812-83), Editor of the “Scientific American,” and author of two or three technical treatises, was born in Rutherglen.  John Milton Mackie (1813-94), of Scottish ancestry, was author of several important biographical works.  William Secular (1814-72), born in Kilbarchan, Editor of the Lowell “Courier” (1841-47), published the “History of Massachusetts in the Civil War” (1868-71).  Arthur MacArthur (1815-96), Jurist and Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (1856-58), born in Glasgow, was author of “Education in Relation to Manual Industry” (1884) and “Biography of the English Language” (1889).  William Ross Wallace (1819-81), author of “Perdita,” etc., was described by Bryant as “a born poet.”  Donald Macleod (1821-65), son of the Rev. Alexander Macleod of Mull, Professor of Rhetoric in Mount St. Mary’s College, Ohio, was author of historical and other works.  His brother, Xavier Donald Macleod, was a poet and miscellaneous writer.  Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908), “Ik Marvel,” was of Scottish descent, and so was General Lew Wallace (1827-1905), author of “Ben Hur,” etc.  James Grant Wilson (1832-1914), son of the poet publisher, William Wilson, of Poughkeepsie, was born in Edinburgh, and attained the rank of General in the Civil War.  He was afterwards author of several important biographical and historical works.  William Swinton (1833-92), journalist, was correspondent of New York “Times” (1862-64), and author, was born in Haddingtonshire.  He “produced many educational works which were widely adopted in both private and public schools throughout the country.”  Henry Ward Beecher called him the “American Napier” from the vividness of his historical descriptions.  David Gray (1836-88), editor of the Buffalo “Courier” and poet, was born in Edinburgh.  John Clark Ridpath (1841-1900), educator, historian, and author, was decended from the old Border family of Redpath.  He was the author of “Great Races of Mankind” (1893), “History of the World” (1898), etc.  Katherine Margaret Brownlee (b. 1841), a descendant of the Brownlees of Torwood, was author of several volumes of poetry.  Leonard Allison Morrison (b. 1843) of New Hampshire, was a descendant of John Morrison who went from Scotland to Londonderry and thence to Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1723.