The Late Mr. J. S. Stuart Glennie

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[Mr. John Stuart Stuart-Glennie, who died recently at Florence, was the son of Alexander Gtennie, of Maybank, Aberdeen. His mother was the daughter of John Stuart of Inchbreck, Professor of Greek in the University of Aberdeen. He was educated at the Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen and at the University of Bonn. After graduating, he traveled widely in Europe and America, was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, and practiced in the court of his kinsman, the Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart. Then, giving up practice, he undertook a series of journeys of historical exploration in the East, the fruit of which was a long series of books and papers beginning with the “New Philosophy of History” (1873), and including numerous contributions to the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, the British Association, the Congresses of Orientalists, the Folklore Congress, the Sociological Society, etc.]