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PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7ra, 1928.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
EDINBURGH, July 3rd.
THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION.
dumped, penniless, on the wharf. My hus hand tried in vain to solve the mystery of the Wandering Minstrel; and it was more or less in his mind when we started on our new cruise.".
THE BAUPIPES IN THE HOUSE.
dig at the Scot and his customs. The large Englishmen are always ready to have a electrolier in the outer lobby in the House of Commons came down with a bump two days nge, in the members' inner lobby and wany bad a
a narrow escape. was just after in a friend trosed in Highland costume, the adjournment. Mr. Scrymgeour brought and introduced him to Lady, Astor
The stranger carried
bagpipes, and Lady Astor anit mace coaxed
bim to Tat her hear his
wheedled music, Sir Harry Britain seconded her efforts, and
bagpipes were about to be blown, when somebody chanced to remember that there are very bersible and heliavions in the mem- lobby. It was a merciful escape for the other members still lingering in the lobby.
The Labour party-it matters not whether it belongs to the Ramsay Macdonald or Clydeside sections—prophecy that the General Election will not come before 1026. When the present aquabble between the Extremists and the Moderates t
be found the Ramsay Macdonald cur pass away. It ainly does not want it much earlier than that, and probabis his forecast reveals merely his own preference. Labarista, according to one of their most prominent Scottish representatives require at least two years to collect funds for their contemplat et onslaught on the constituencies and educate the people in Socialistic doctrines, and their hope is that, the Government
obligé thom in this respect. liberals are not in A con
condition to challenge the Unionists in the country, and they, too, would prefer the Election to come Inter eather than sooner. The Government will not, however, consult the convenience of either of their opponents, although it is now being accopted as a fact that the Unionist Party can remain in power up to the full term if it is so disposal. The Government majority in the Commons, although large is holding well together, and it has little danger to apprehend from a sustained Labour Liberal Coalition, against it. In the absence of any abnormal politic
curence, there is no reason why the Government should not remain in office for abother two or three years.
A SCOTTISH NATIONAL LIBRARY.
at
The Prime Minister bus been able to make an announcement which will be received with keen pleasure by every member of the Scottish race. Mr. Alexander Grant, a well- known citizen of Edinburgh, of Mesurs. 'Vitic and Price, biscuit manufacturers, has made an offer of £100,000 ft Satican the per manent endowment of a Scottish Library
This great gift enables the Government to Accept the offer, made over a year ago by the Faculty of Advocates to transfer to the nation as a gift the main of their famous Library in Edinburgh. The Library had its crigin and its first endowment in a resolution of the in 1080, to apply certain arrears of
ng by ita members to the purchase
of books. Two years
later the carry,
ing out of the scheme was committed to the Dean of
Mackenzie of Rose
his
Sir George who by official share in the persecution of the Covenanters was known to many of
of his compatriots as "the bluidy Mackenzie, but
has a more honourable claim to who remembrance as the first Sent to write pure: English prose. Sir George's labours had their fruition when in 1700 the Advocates Library was placed on tho list of British libraries which under the Copyright Act were entiled to receive a copy of avery book entered at Stationers Hall Today, with its 725,000 books
and paraphlets, and its 3,000 valuable โอนบน
raaks in Britain next to the Scripts, British Museum and Bodician Libraries. Hitherto the burden of administration, has been borne entirely by the three or four hundred members of the Scottish Bar, who out of their own resources have spent upwards of a quarter of
For the Library. million pounds un long it has been felt that the task. of upkeep had passed beyond the power of any private body. The conso- quent offer of the Library to the Nation in 1922 had to be declined by the Govern- ment which, on account of financial strin gency, could nov inaku
annual
maintenance grant of more than 22,uno. But Mr. Grant has sustained the intellectual credit of Scotland, and has made it possible for the Government to take over the collection as a Scottish National Library,
Apart from its vast collection of printed books including the earliest specimens of Scottish typography, it contains
many priceless manuscripts which represent the very soul and basis of nations! history: charters by the Scottish Kings snl of religious houses from the twelfth century downward, MSS. of books like Wyntoun's Chronicle," Barbour's Bruce," and Blind Harry's "Wallace," autograph letters by the
personages in Scottish and French
history; missals, psalters, and broviaries; the National Covenant of 1638; and literary anthologies like the Bannatyne MIS, which is the chief source knowledge of early Scottish poetry. For many generations the Library has been the workshop not only of Scottish lawyers
of our
but
of men of letters like Hume, Scott, Carlyle and Stevenson, and of countless students of Scottish
and literature.
Mr. Alexander Grant was 30 years ago a working baker in a small town in the North of Scotland. The late Mr. Robert A'Vitie, when about to start the business of biscuit manufacturer in Edinburgh, spotted Mr. Grant as a
very capable man, and offered him the post us first works manager in
in the now famous firm. On the retirement of Mr. Price
(who became one of Elinburgit's nem- bers of Parliament) Mr. Grant was assumed as partner in the business, and when Mr. died Mr. Grant took uver full control. And he showed his belief in the Fature of the company by buying all the acres that come on the market and has since amassed an immense fortune, park of which bo is now giving to his country in the most generous and public-spirited manner.
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THE GENESIS OFTHE WRECKER."
The latest volume, the 17th, of tho "Vailíma" edition of Stevenson is entirely occupied by "The Wrecker,”- which appears with a prefatory note by Mrs Stevenson, who recalls the circumstances which:
suggest-
ed the story. The Stevensons were st. Honolulu preparing for a South Sea which it was intended would
carry thevege
to
China and eventually to England, when's number of castaways picked up on Midway Island wore landed at the port, The story told by the captain of the barque
Wandering Mrecked vessel, ve
hid fitted outb
no
ho said,
oil
from
And
was that he
his Vessel in Hongkong purpose of catching sharks. Ho meant, to make spurious cod-liver
the liv
of the sharks,
fing Chinese. There were many discrepancies and evasions in his tals that I have forgot- ton; but it was plain that fishing for sharks was not the sole ubject of the Wandering Minstrel'
captain of the rescu- ing vessel first ascertained exactly what amount of money liad been savel fropi wrock; sit was just this sun soreral thousand dollars-comprising all the sailors' wager as well as the entiru mean of the. captain-that ho demanded as his price for carrying the miserable creatures to the earest civilised port, where they were
MARRIAGES.
The
At the Tonsine Hotel, Greenock, on the 23th June, Roy Henderson Phillips, Hong: kong, son of the late Wus. Phillips and Mrs. Phillips; 67, Union Union Street, Greenock, to Winifred, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gow, 1, Octavia Terrace, Greenock, TALES THAT ARE TOLD,
tells
that
Mention was regently made of the Chinese popularity, of Charlie Chaplin. A man who is on holiday from Singapore me, writes the Glargon Balletin, the Chinese there like Charlie Chaplin best on the tiles, and when they buy gramophone records they show a partiality for Harry Lauder. Even wher they can not follow the dialect they grow en chuliastic about the music, while the laugh always makes thyu chuckle.
life censes and the decline in the birth- Euless the present wastage of child rate is checked. France's population in 1925 will be decreasing at the rate of 250,000 per annum, says M. Godart, a former Minister.
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