Clan Fraser in Canada

84 LYDIA FALCONER FRASER .
some lines from a poem of hers on the death of their first-
born child :
" Thou'rt awa, awa, from thy mother's side,
And awa, awa, from thy father's knee ;
Thou'rt awa from our blessing-, our care, our caressing',
But awa from our hearts thou'lt never be.
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Thou'rt awa, awa, from the bursting spring time,
Tho' o'er thy head its green boughs wave ;
The lambs are leaving their little foot-prints
On the turf of thy new-made grave."
What gentleness and sweetness in these lines ! One
of her prose works, "Cats and Dogs," still holds its own as
one of the minor classics of natural history.
Rev. Robert William Fraser, a Perthshire man, succeeded
Rev. Dr. Guthrie in St. John's Church, Edinburgh, in 1847,
and was a learned and eloquent divine and a diligent pastor.
He found time to write all but one of a dozen of important
works on divinity, history, physical and natural science. He
was a solid man.
I must not omit William Fraser, the educational reformer
who helped David Stow to carry out his training system for
teachers in Scotland, and who later investigated Scottish edu-
cation, and wrote an important book on the subject of which
the results were afterwards embodied in legislation. He
died in 1879.
Along with him may well be mentioned the late James
Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, a very famous man from
Forfarshire, one of the Frasers of Durris, of whom it has
been said that there has not been in this generation a more
simple or noble soul. He interests us especially for his work
in education, and forms a connecting link between our school
system and English educational reform, for he visited Canada
and the United States in 1865, and drew up a report which