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Dynasties pass away, overbearing Empirea disintegrate into waspish small nations, political geography is made, and remade, bat the grouse season, remains unchanged. On the morning of the Twelfth, Perth sta tion presents the immemorial Firth-like composition of English rolling-stock, Harris tweeds, noting hounds, gun cases, and the garb of Old Gaul. Romance, embodied in handsomely titled locomotive, brings up s green-painted Highland Kailway train, which fangy may supply with thatched roofs, peat fuel, and a kilted guard. But Scat Land" as an instintion is older than the Highland Railway, The Dedlocks, it may be remembered, were "in Scotland" at one period of their enigmatic career, though Dickens bus omitted to tell us whether Lady D. found distraction from het secret in teiling over. wet moors after the elusive grouse, presumably as "strong on the The Royal Scots is the Premier Corps in wing" then as he is reported to a to-day. age and in battle experience not only if the Perhaps the ordinary person's frank British Army but in all Europe. The by-impression of gronse shooting would be name of the regiment is "Fontius Pilate's very much like that which Sir Harry Bodyguard," and although it may not have Johnson has given in "The Gay.Dom- historie right to that title, it can certainly boys." But the grouse after all, though trace a direct pedigree to a corps formed on he helps to pay education rates, is merely the backs of the Rhine in 1635 by the a stimulus to healthful exercise in the SHANGHAI amalgamation of the Scots Guards of King most bracing air of Europe. Henry of Navarre with the remnants of the famous "Greea Brigade" of Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of the North, and of The housing shortage all over the coun- other Scottish corps of soldiers of fertinetry has resulted in a remarkable rise in who had been scattered throughout Europe. the price of crofts, particularly those with Since these early days the regiment has good Iwalling-houses attached. The other served in many wars, its history being day a croft in Aberdeenshire was adver practically that of the British Army. In tised for sale, and applications poured in the Great War its record renda like that of from all parts of Scotland. In the end an army rather than that of regiment: it was acfd for £330—approximately 6+ Smaller losses than the regiment's 11,162 years' rental This small holding originally dead and between 40,000 and 50,000 wound-formed part of the Haddo House estates, ed have repeatedly in national and general and three years ago was soll for £110. history been the full price paid for a-vic COTTISH SOCIETY SENSATION, torions war Le Catean, the Manım, Loos, the Somme, Arras, Gallipoli, Gaz, and Jerusalem aro names worthy to take a place beside the most brilliant of those' inscribed in the annals of the regiment or the British Army. It was represented during the war by 16 battalions serving overseas and 23 serving at home, in all 99, or the equivalent infantry of three divisions, and
A BOOM IN CROFTS.
A notice of intending marriage has been entered at the Kensington Register Office between the Earl of Eglinton and Winton for license was signed by the Earl, who is and Mrs. Marjorie Vernon. The application described at Archibald Seton Montgomerie. aged 42, the former husband of Beatrice Susan, Countess of Eglinton and Winton. Mrs. Vernon's age is given as 30. The As the Princess truly said in unveiling Earl of Winton and Eglinton was divorced the tablet to the Eleven Thousand Slain, we on July 20th List, a deere being granted to have a night to expect and to demand that Lady Eglinton in the Scottish Courts." The the sacrifice shall not be in vain, and that lady co-respondent was not rained. The among ita good fruits there thall be “greater family sets are Eglinton Castle, Irvine, comradeship among the living. A testi-Ayrshire; Skelmerlie Castle, Larg+; and mony that reward of this kind is not wholly Redburn, Irvine, Ayrshira. The Earldom lacking is found in the shape of the cons was created in 1507, and the present bolder. titution of the Royal Scots. Club. It is of the title is the sixteenth in succession. founded on new lines-lines that would During the European War the Earl saw have been impracticable and unthonght of service as a signalling officer. He was at before the Great War. It is huge one time a lieutenant in the 2nd Life social experiment, an innovation in form Guards. and spirit of military life and experience. Mrs. Vernon is the widow of Mr. Guy All ranks are admitted to it on an equality, Vernon of Auebans House, Kilmarnock, Ragulure, Beserrists, and Territorials, son of the Hon. G. R. Vernon, who was at one officers, non-commissioned officers, and time M.P. for South Ayrshire. She is the rank-and-file alike.. The "noble conditions || daughter of the late Mr. T. W. Macintyre. of comradeship and good fellowship" of Sorn Castle, Ayrshire, who was a partner engendered during the war are to be in the firm of M'Lay and Macintyre, ship- perpetuated and confirmed in time of peace, owners, Glasgow, Mr. Guy Vernon wha The country will follow this remarkable killed in a motor accidentin Ayrshire during experiment the Club has alrendy 400 the war. members-with interest and sympathy.
During her visit to the Club, the Princess was presented with a marriage gilt from her own regiment. It consists of two silver statuettes, one representing an officer of the Royal Regiment of the-period of 1818, and the other a private soldier of the year 1918.
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PERSONALIA,
General Sir F. B. Wingate, Bart, former Sirdar of the Egyptian Army and Governor of the Sudan, has beep elected and accepted office as a member of Dunbar Parish Council.
Lieut.-Col. E.. L. Strait, C.B.E., D.S.O., commanded the detachments of the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd battalions of the Royal Scots during the visit of Princess Mary. to Edinburgh. This was his first ap pearance with his regiment or his return from the Mount Everest Expedition.. -
One of the subjects which will engage the attention of the annual conference of the Burns" Federation, this year to be held in Birmingham, is a proposal to place in the parish church at Falmouth a |isblet in memory of the Earl of Glencairn, the friend and benefactor of Robert Burn The Furl died on his retum from a voyage to Lisbon, and the poet gave expression to his grief in a “Lament The Earl's remains were deposited in this eburch, and permission to erect a memo- rial having been obtained from the authorities, a sketch of tablet has been made by Mr. Ninian Whannell, a little Gaelic play. Death and Dives is F.RIBA., Glasgow. The tablet will be the theme, and the treatment is...on of white Sicilian marble, with moulded traditional Celtic Lines. frame of Tenog dark green marble, and measures 4 feet by 2 feet.
LORD STRATHCLYDE'S SACRIFICE.
The Hon. R. Erakins of Mar, one of the most versatile of Scottish Gaelic scholars, has entered yet another field; he has written
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Preaching in Tuan Cathedral, the Lord Strathclyde has notified the Trea- Archbishop of Tuam made an Bury that he desires to surrender the moving appeal for peace. He wanted to. pension of £3,750 granted to him after his save the old land from destruction.** retirement from the office of Lord President Lot Parliament rule," he urged. of the Court of Session-and Lord Justice- There can be no glory in this war. Its General for Scotland, which he held for continuance to the bloody end will leave seven years. Lord Strathclyde, who is 69 Ireland a pallid skeleton, awaiting death years of age, gives as the reason for his with zo pitying eyes to weep for the dis- surrender of the pension that be is unable,ters brought upon us not by our foes,
but by ourselves... owing to weak health, to take part in the judicial work of the House of Lords. This action is consistent with the prominent part he took in the thrift movement during the war, when he was the first President of the National Savings movement. Is politics, Lord Strathclyde will be remember ed as Bir. Alexander Ure, a militant extreme Liberal. He was involved in many quarrels, and on one occasion, received a castigation from Lord Balfour which has been described as one of the severest ever 'inflicted on^a public man daring the present generation. GHOUSE AND THE TWELFTH.
Last week the centre of the fashionable world was in London. To-day It is shifted to that part of the land of brown heath and shaggy wood," divided off into "drives and sparcely sprinkled with shooting lodges which for the beau monde isScotland." Though it comprises about half the total area of the country, it is a Scotland little known to the vast majority of those whose names and occupations are returned in the Scottish census. But it was the only Scotland ever known to Henry James-who glimpsed it rather dejectedly through the rain-streaked windows of a remote hooting box-and to many another novellist who, unlike Henry James, has found quite a lot to say about it. It is nota
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