James Logie Robertson

“ Assuming the character of a shepherd of the Ochil Hills, who is also a scholar, he selects a text from the Odes of Horace, and makes this the peg on which to hang the views of a modern upon Life, Love, Friendship, Contentment, with one's lot, the Flight of Time, and Death—in short, those subjects of perennial interest on which his great namesake best descanted and best loved to descant. ”

“ It is a a dialect poet with a very fine tact for style that he will be remembered. And that his name and specimens of his verse will continue to find place in literary histories and anthologies it seems safe to prophesy. The Horatian geniality and optimism of his temperament greatly endeared him to his friends. ”

“ Kinross, on September 18, 1846. His life was throughout devoted to the teaching profession, and though unquestionably a peaceful, happy, and useful life it presents nothing in the shape of striking incident. ”