Crossword-Solution: RAEBURN 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Readers of Stevenson’s essay on the Raeburn exhibition, in _Virginibus Puerisque_, will remember how he is fascinated by Raeburn’s portrait of Braxfield, even as Lockhart had been fascinated by a different portrait of the same worthy sixty years before (see _Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk_); nor did his interest in the character diminish in later life.

SOME PORTRAITS BY RAEBURN THROUGH the initiative of a prominent citizen, Edinburgh has been in possession, for some autumn weeks, of a gallery of paintings of singular merit and interest.

And I hear a story of a lady who returned the other day to Edinburgh, after an absence of sixty years: “I could see none of my old friends,” she said, “until I went into the Raeburn Gallery, and found them all there.” It would be difficult to say whether the collection was more interesting on the score of unity or diversity.

And yet the similarity of the handling seems to throw into more vigorous relief those personal distinctions which Raeburn was so quick to seize.

You can see whether you get a stronger and clearer idea of Robertson the historian from Raeburn’s palette or Dugald Stewart’s woolly and evasive periods.