text:  Even party malevolence by no means extinct at the present day has been unable to detract from the eulogy pronounced upon him by the famous Cardinal de Retz the friend of Conde and Turenne when he thus summed up his character:--"Montrose a Scottish nobleman head of the house of Grahame--the only man in the world that has ever realized to me the ideas of certain heroes whom we now discover nowhere but in the Lives of Plutarch--has sustained in his own country the cause of the King his master with a greatness of soul that has not found its equal in our age