Excerpt from The Cage The name of Robert Campbell Ainslie is still remembered in Edinburgh. Anecdotes concerning him and laconicisms attributed to his lips are almost as numerous, and now are nearly as tedious, as those which embalm for posterity the memories of historical personages. Many sayings are doubtless ascribed to him which he never uttered. He was one of those rough and honest personalities who make an iron impression on a conventional generation, and whose dust mingles with the earth only that their impressive ghosts may stalk the ways of men in the embroideries of Aberglaube. For the historian, he was a fashion able physician with common-sense notions on the subject of diet, great honesty and courage, and a penetrating knowledge of human nature. 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.