No More Learning

Blackwood's of the middle of the century, though reckoning
the           Bulwer-Lytton and De Quincey among its honored
contributors, was an intensely Scottish magazine; and its Scottish
staff was marked by a distinctive literary tone,- a compound of boy-
ish high spirits and old-fashioned conservatism such as we sometimes
notice in the cadets of a noble house, to whom their family tra-
ditions are sacred, but the necessity of a decorous bearing before
the world not at all apparent.