VEITCH, JOHN (1829-1894)

—Philosophic and miscellaneous writer, b. at Peebles, ed. at Univ. and New Coll., Edin., was a istant to Sir Wm. Hamilton ( q.v. ), 1856-60, Prof. of Logic at St. Andrews, 1860-64, and Glasgow, 1864-94. He was a voluminous and accomplished writer, his works including Lives of Dugald Stewart (1857) and Sir W. Hamilton (1869), Tweed and other Poems (1875), History and Poetry of the Scottish Border (1877), Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry (1887), Merlin and other Poems (1889), Border E ays (1896), and Dualism and Monism (1895).