The book lays claim to no literary merit, beyond noticing and contrasting the developments in the City's early history, and gathering together from memory's storehouse personal recollections of what Glasgow was sixty years ago. The volume does not pretend to be a history, but simply "Glimpses of Old Glasgow" streets, squares, lanes, and important buildings, with memorabilia and interesting facts connected with the City's progress. The book has grown much beyond my original intention, yet many topics of deepest interest have been left untouched. Should these "Glimpses" afford pleasure or instruction to my readers, or be the means of recalling and preserving eventful scenes and circumstances of bygone days, I will feel amply repaid. A. Aird October, 1894.

Glimpses of Glasgow