Excerpt from The Lincoln Monument, in Memory of Scottish-American Soldiers: Unveiled by Hon. Wallace Bruce at Edinburgh, Scotland, August 21, 1893 Hon. Wallace bruce returns to New York after four years' absence as United States Consul at Edinburgh. As his friends at home and abroad know, he has won golden Opinions in Great Britain as a lecturer, poet, orator, and a man of business. We welcome him again to the Lecture platform. Although he proposes to give more time to literature in the future, we are pleased to know that he will accept a limited number of engagements during the autumn and early winter, before going to his winter home at De Funiak Springs, Florida. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.