ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHINSON BOYD, whose essays have been collected recently in thirteen volumes, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in November, 1825, and educated at the University of Glasgow. By profession he is a clergyman, and his essays have an undercurrent of earnest purpose; but he does not make them sermons, and he does make them interesting to readers of all classes by his use of anecdote. His essays show the marked difference between the intellect which has full control of the imaginative faculty and those which have become subjective and critical. Among his best-known works are “The Recreations of a Country Parson,” “The Commonplace Philosopher in Town and Country,” and “Changed Aspects of Unchanged Truths.” The essay, “Getting On in the World,” one of the best examples of its class, is remarkable for its wealth of illustrative incident.