Rab and His Friends and Other Papers and Essays

by John Brown

1906. Scottish physician and author, Brown's Rab and His Friends is one of the volumes that made his reputation. Contents: Rab and His Friends; The Mystery of Black and Tan (Dick Mihi); Our Dogs; Marjorie Fleming; Jeems the Doorkeeper; Minchmoor; The Black Dwarf's Bones; Our Gideon Grays; With Brains, Sir; Her Last Half-Crown; Queen Mary's Child-Garden; Ai'xinoi'a-Presence of Mind, etc.; Dr. Chalmers; Letter to John Cairns, DD; Mystifications; Oh, I'm Wat, Wat'; Arthur H. Hallam.

392 pages, Hardcover

Published July 25, 2007

About the author

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John Brown was a Scottish physician and essayist best known for his three-volume collection Horae Subsecivae, which included essays and papers on art, medical history and biography. Of his essays, his dog story Rab and his Friends (1859), Pet Marjorie (1863), on Marjorie Fleming, the ten-year-old prodigy and alleged "pet" of Walter Scott, Our Dogs, Minchmoor, and The Enterkine are best known.

In 1847 Brown became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and for a while was Honorary Librarian. He held strong views on the inappropriateness of examinations for evaluating student progress and was unimpressed by the view that scientific advances were in patients' best interests.

Reviews

[Meen]

This appears to be excerpts from several of Dr. Brown's different works, and the book is not in good shape. BUT, it has the best inscription EVER:

Presented to Floyd Yarger as as reward for excelling in spelling.
Charles A. Park
Teacher
March 28, 1902

I also have another of Floyd's books, Moments with God, which was given to him by an S.W. Yarger 25 years after her got this one!