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Aberdeen Awa' : Sketches of Its Men, Manners, And CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 1891 BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE Cornell University Library Z325.B87 W17 : sketches Aberdeen awa' ,8',,jJi?,ii,ni,f,'Jiiii,'^'" 3 1924 029 509 993 olin The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029509993 ABERDEEN AWA' George Walker. ABERDEEN AWA' SKETCHES OF ITS MEN, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS AS DELINEATED IN Brown's Book-Stall, 1892-4 BY GEORGE WALKER,c| nbeiTeS&ei ,t ,sl Revised and largely extended, with Portraits and Illustrations ABERDEEN- A. BROWN & CO EDINBURGH : J. MENZIES & CO 1897 PREFACE. The origin of tliis volume is entirely fortuitous and acci- dental, and but for the solicitation of Mr. E. T. Smith, my successor as proprietor of the business of A. Brown & Co., it would not have appeared in print, or obtruded itself on the attention of the public. In the go-ahead style of the youth of the present day, he aspired to have an advertising medium of his own, in- tended for circulation amongst the customers of the old firm of A. Brown & Co., and knowing that during my fifty years' connection I had accumulated much information regarding the firm and its various partners since it began in 1785, he asked me to furnish some details of its origin, progress, and work, which might be padding to his projected serial, and form something like a thread through it to bind the past with the present. His singular venture became plural, and for three years (1892-94) I had to furnish samples of my reminiscences, such as they were, and had to adapt them according to the space allowed. As they progressed in number the interest in them increased, and numerous demands for the earlier numbers of the Book-Stall were received which could not be supplied. From being considered mere padding, the sketches came to be eagerly looked for, were most favour- ably criticised by the press, and on their conclusion were considered by the proprietor as " our mainstay, our back- bone ... so appreciated that the pubhc, like another Oliver Twist, is asking for more.'' So, in reply to numerous requests from many .\ber- donians at home and abroad, backed up by the press critics these sketches are submitted to the public as now revised, corrected, and largely extended, by desire. Preface. When, sixty years ago, I first read Pryse L. Gordon's article, I was much impressed with the desirabihty of pre- serving it, and have not only done so (see Chapters ix. and X.), but appropriated the title he adopted ; because, during the long life of Alexander Brown, the founder of the Book- Stall, extending from 1766 to 1843, the prominent part he took among the citizens, and the influential position he occupied, made him one of the principal actors in all the important events of the marvellous period of change which has made Aberdeen awa' what it now is. In this fleeting world it is a pleasure Tu help to " save from what traditions glean, Or age remembers, or ourselves have seen ; The scattered relics care can yet collect. And fix such shadows as these lines reflect." It has been asked, " What is history for but to recover forgotten names that ought not to be forgotten, to make rich our memories, to connect the life of the present through an avenue of increasingly strong recollections with the life of the past I " and to recall past times, and bring back the days of old. Acknowledgments are due to my esteemed friend, Dr. Alexander Walker, for his ready assistnnce both in informa- tion illustration and ; to Mr. Isaac Smith for specially pro- viding for my use the portrait of his father, to Messrs. Wilson k Co., Mr. William Smith, printer, Messrs. Lewis Smith & Son, and to Messrs. Falconer & Co. for the use of illustrations. G. W. October, 1896. CONTENTS. I. —Aberdeen of yore. The Craigdam minister. Hi.s son Alexander Brown begins business, i u. —Alexander Sheriffs and his stock. Old books. The Grey Goose Quill &c. Shorter Calhechism, 12 III. —The Upperkirkgate shop. Customers. Town squabbles. David Wyllie and Lewis Smith. Broad Street shop. Marriage. Publications. Shop signs. Homer's head, 23 IV. —The passing century. Dawn of Reform. Light and leading. The Scottish burnie. Police bill, 32 V. — Extension of the city. New streets and buildings. Suburbs. Antiquity, 41 VI. —Mr. Brown prospers. Social position. Old limes. Con- vivial clubs. Distributor of stamps. William i'"arquhar. Forbes Frost. Paper ruling. James Brownie. The Mogul Club, - 53 VII. —Early printers and booksellers. Angus and Sons. The Narrow Wynd. London smacks. Publishing. Dr. George Campbell, 71 VIII. —Municipal election. Management. "Sandy Banner- man " and Blumine. Baillie Brown at Edinburgh. Sir William Curtis. Provost. Bridge of Don. New Parishes. Stormy times. Augean stables. Provost Hadden. Farcical elections, 84 IX.— Pryse Gordon on Aberdeen. Sir W. Scott's kindness. Kennedy the Annalist. High jinks. Duellings. Pro- fessor Gordon. The Laird of Culrossie. Sheriffs and Russel. Adams and Chalmers. W. Forsyth's cure, 106 X. —Clerk Carnegie introduced to Bailie Nicol Jarvie. Young Aberdeen. County characters. Lord Kintore. City riots. Loyalty of Aberdeen mob, 122 Contents. XI. —Town Council Work. William Brown. David Wyllie. Forbes Frost. Jacobitism. The Gentle Persuasion. " Honest John." A young bookworm, 134 XII. — Brisk publishing. Union Buildings. Sir Alex. Anderson and his litany. Ritualism, Jacobitism and Persecution, 143 XIII. —Book-Stall employees. Succession. John Cormack. Colonel Fraser, 155 XIV. — Bigotry and prejudice. Romance. The old, old story. 166 XV. — Influence of books. Examples. Voung pilgrims. Power of fiction. Spiritual manifestations. Convivial raillery. Clerk Carnegie, 175 XVI. — In memoriam. G. W. Wilson. Experiments. Excur- sions. West Coast. Staffa. Simples in medicine, 189 XVI1-—(Continued) Elgin. Travelling trials. Royal Patronage. A lost friend, - 202 XVIII.— Music in Aberdeen. Appreciation. William Brown. Organ Question, 212 XIX. —(Continued) Ancient celebrity. Thomas Shannon. Sang Schule. Musical Society. Precentors. James Davie. Geordie Weir. Piganini. 223 XX. —Foreign visitors. Religious revival. W. C. Burns. Moderates. Disruption, 236 XXI. —Address to Library association. Aberdeen, a royal city. The Scottish Oxford. "A lazy town"- A sterile soil, 244 XXII. —Bookmakers. Churchmen. Civic corporations. Univer- sities. Professors. Printers. Libraries. Eminent Men, 25s XXIII. —The Victorian Era. Scott and other poets. Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. Constable. Annuals. Periodi- cals, 26s XXIV.—The local poets. Booksellers. Lewis Smith. Lemon Tree. 277 XXV. —Chess play and clubs. Steel pens and envelopes. Annuals. Theological literature. G. King, - . 289 Contents. XXVI. — Bibliomaniacs. Dummy books. The road to Scotland. Caller water at home and abroad, 299 XXVU. —Edinburgh booksellers and society. Sydney Smith, &c. , \ Charles Elliot, 311 xXTlit. —Aberdeen Booksellers. Lewis Smith and old books. Revolution in Book-Stall, - 318 XXIX. —Permanency of books. Prestige of Scotland. Dislike of Scotchmen, 328 XXX. —Old book catalogues. Sales by auction. Book buyers, 335 xxxi.^Downie's slaughter. Author of the story. Fictitious autobiography of Laurence Langshank, 343 XXXH. —Use of Free Libraries. Robert Mudie. Sandy Banner- man and Clerk Carnegie. Bannerman's new history of Aberdeen, - 357 XXXIII. —Value of portraits. The Little Club. Carnegie's en- counter with Auld Hornie, 362 XXXIV. —George Colman. His escapades at Oxford. Banish- ment to Old Aberdeen. Rory Macleod. Coll. McLeane. Oxford versus Aberdeen. English students. Robert Hall. Chas. Burney and James Mackintosh, 370 XXXV. —Aberdeen characters. Historians. Wags and wickedness. The baby Mrs. Grundy, 384 XXXVI. —Forbes Frost. Deaths of partners in the Book-Stall, 394 W. JOLLY & SONS, PRINTERS, ABERDEEN. ILLUSTRATIONS. Author, Front. Provost Brown, 92 William Brown, 216 Baillie L. Smith, 282 Market Cross, Title. Upperkirkgate Shop, 9 Wallace Neuk, - 22 Narrow Wynd, - 76 Jamesone's House, 105 Byron's House, 235 King's College, 288 Old East Church, 298 St. Machar's Cathedral, 350 Brig o' Balgownie, - 98, 393 \'' Municipal Buildings, . 399 Union Bridge, 1820, - - 400 Errata.—Page 62, line 4, for "instuted" read instituted. Exercises. ,, 77, ,, 4, „ "Excerises" „ ,, 80, ,, 28, ,, "similiar" ,, similar. „ 151, ,, I, ,, "Carlyle" ,, Carlisle. lit. II 303i >, 7i II "let" „ — — ABERDEEN AWA' I. INTRODUCTION. " Every- one of the ages are telling on us at the present time ; every man who thought or worked in them has contributed to the good or evil which is now around us. The past ages are not dead, they cannot be. If we listen they will speak to us." Carlyk. " Prythee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear The good and bad \.o^e.'Ca.ex."~-Shakespeare. " Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things which we call books. Still does the Press toil ! innumerable Papermakers, Com- positors, Printers' Devils, Bookbinders, and Hawkers grown hoarse with proclaiming, rest not from their labours : and stiTl in torrents rushes on the great array of publications, unpausing to their final home ; and still oblivion, like the grave, cries Give, Give." Carlyle. now reputed to be one of the most radical , BERDEEN, cities in the country, y^zs, at one time considered the Oxford of Scotland, Is it the principle of heredity operating on men— enabling them when so often inclined as they are—to lay all their faults on their fore-fathers, and claim all their virtues foj themselves, which has, to a certain extent, preserved that fine, old, and altogether respectable conservative feeling which undoubtedly exists in the city and also in the surrounding district? For in. Aberdeenshire the old Catholi- cism had deeply rooted itself in the primitive and granitic district, and could never be entirely extirpated from its suitable soil.
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