Smith, WALTER CHALMERS

Smith, WALTER CHALMERS, Scottish poet, was born in Aberdeen in 1824, studied at Old Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and, after holding a Presbyterian charge in London for some years, laboured as a Free Church minister at Orwell (Kinross-shire), in Edinburgh, in Glasgow, and again till 1894 in Edinburgh in the Free High Church. Widely popular as an amiable and accomplished man and an admirable preacher, he has won the favour of a yet larger public by a series of volumes of poetry marked by richness of thought, creative imagination, and lyrical charm, although unequal and not seldom careless in construction. These are The Bishop's Walk, by 'Orwell' (1861); Orig Grange, by 'Hermann Kunst' (1872); Hilda among the Broken Gods (1878); Rabun, or Life Splinters (1880); North-Country Folk (1883); Kildrostan, a Dramatic Poem (1884); Thoughts and Fancies for Sunday Evenings (1887); A Heretic (1890).