Edinburgh

THE grey metropolis of the north, which this year has the opportunity of offering the hand of hospitality to the members of the British Medical Association, is beyond question a queen of cities. The attractions of Edinburgh are many, and they are varied. She has something to interest, to entertain, and to instruct students of every phase of history, archeology, and all departments of science; and to the lover of the picturesque and the view-hunter her resources are unlimited. Her citizens might almost be excused if they, conscious of the supreme attractions of their city, should fall into the grievous error of slightly regarding the visit of strangers; just as the reigning beauties of society, sometimes to their own great loss, are haughty, cold, careless, and repellent. Time was, when the city had no good reputation beyond the country for the comfortable and courteous entertainment of such as were not "a drap's blind" to Scotchmen. In the middle of the four teenth century, the French Embassy, which came to Edinburgh to try to induce David II to join issue against the common English enemy, found the people "envious of the honour and profit of everyone besides themselves, and perpetually jealous of losing the means they had". No accommodation suitable for the luxurious Frenchmen was found or