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LEUCHARS CHURCH.
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Leuchars and Aberbrothick. (August 20.)

Johnson, closing his description of St. Andrews with his lament over its declining University, goes on to say like a wise man:—

LEUCHARS.

"As we knew sorrow and wishes to be vain, it was now our business to mind our way." Perhaps, as he wrote these words he had in his memory two lines of Matthew Green, though they were