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Viscopat Grey of Fallodon presided at demonstration,xe Queen's Hall, Lang- ham-place, W., in support of internation-

Whon Ruskin wrote of Scotland "gloaming like a wet pebble'!" is" waa surely of the Board and tranquil Low- lands, that he thought, coloured and shining: after an autumn rain with ard amber and yors and purple. But in the Highlands one is impressed most by the peace and good will. He said the variability and animation of the land growth of armamente was one of the scape. The gleaming and futtering of underlying causes of the war. Before the waters, the glancing of light upon birch war it was often said that great armas and rock and running streams, the If we were to be wiser after the event, ments wero, a protection against war.

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cartest intellectuala. The Soot has been It had been his hope that when they saw happy in his song-makers. There is no how widespread was the suffering caused occasion of human joy or sorrow or by the war, not only in this country, but merry-making in which he need be thrown also in every other country engaged in for OXрTEMNİON проп mawkish arit, there would come out of that com. inadequate song. Barns, poeta cantore munity in suffering a community in good as he really was, performed the service will. They did not see signs that, that of keeping alive popular singing on a feeling had yet been the outcome of the highly expressive-level, though the Scots war. International politics seemed much are not, like the Welsh, pre-eminently a as they were before. nation of singers. But to play the pipes well is still an ambition everywhere, and down by the waterside, on the hill, and in the boat, one hears the read-music. where boys and men are practising the chanter and discovers a native music which has never died "down nor lost its interest for the people, whose emotions and spirit it has expressed throughout a stiming history. When the piper appears in the streets his popularity is manifest, and with it apparently the feeling that he is the musician of the community, like the wandering harper whom he displaced. Favourite tunes. dre naked for and discussed with him, and the fear that the Highland piper might after all turn out to be something preposterous and (like the chamois of Tartarin) kept for the tourist, soon disappears.

The playing of the violin is believed to be responsible for the introduction of foreign tricks into the bagpipe tradition, and one noticed in the printed instruc tions to pipers who would enter for competition in the "Highland games" a very rigid limitation in styles of playing If a piper departed from traditional style in his playing of the set classical piece of the piobaireached, he mast bo able to satisfy the judges og to his authority or by dilawed and the skilful manage ment of the, piobaireached is still the test of a piper's ability,

"A piobaireached's not a tune, you know," explained a young piper; "it's a kind of way of playing-very old music very difficult notes."

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the immediate · future" ordera for The actual construction of the plece destroyers, their knowledge and experi would seem to be more like that of a

ence in the construction of special types sonata than any other form of composi of craft should put them in a better tiou. There is a ground theme with position than firms whose business had variations; a second movement and a been almost entirely confined to the final return to the theme, a very severe andstruction of cargo vessels. They had seb piece. Strange ideas visit one alone, at the present time under construction a listens to competitor after competitor; the number of vessels, but of only amall chief of them being that if one had been dimensions. In his remarks last year he given the task of inventing a man one referred to the difficulties they wore would never have invented or even experiencing, in common with other firms dreamt of one who could play the bag in chtaining payments due to them, and pipes. And yet here were such men, not he was afraid conditions were not yet any one but a noore, making that strange better. singing and sighing and wailing, all with nine notes and ten fingers and a faculty of orders for motor boats and marine They had on hand quite a number of hearing what ands travel in tha wind and resound in hidden caverns of motors, and he believed their sales of the sea. So old," indeed, did the motor vehicles compared very favourably music sound that there came with the with their competitors, although, of piper's music, the recollection of times course, they were capable of a very much before written words, of men summoned larger output than was represented by their sales. The motor vehicle business by running messengers, of fory cross had been, was now, and would continue 85, Des Voeux Road, Central symbol of tidings sent over hills and to be very adversely affected by the rivers by the music of triumph or grief.

"A sort of musical epic, a descriptive plece each piper learns it from some other piper," explained another, and so the bagipe tutor printa "MacPherson's Lament, Ronald Mackenzie's style," adding & curiously personal note to an intensely individual kind of music.

artificial. While they could not expect in

It was not surprising to learn that the disposs! of surplus war vehicles, and tho dumping in Gt. Britain and our overseas "Desperate, Battle," of which the pio Dominions of vehicles from countries the baireached was telling the history was the currency of which was depreciated. The battle of the North Inch, in which two effect of this depreciation of currency plans fought until all were slayne ex represented a bounty to the foreign cept and that swam throw the water of manufacturer on the cost of a four-tou Toy

How the winning piper made the chan 3914. The British manufacturers' cost vehicle of something between £125 to ter sing until it was all told the lament was swollen by the heavy taxation ruling ing of lost hope and of very far away in Ct, Britain, which included health, Borrows which joined somehow to the unemployment, and employers liability burden and sighing of all humanity war insurance, and Interest on loans to the to its breaking-point.

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During this year they had put on the mont of the piobaireached itself which is market & new type of small marine inter human. The incessantly down engine, which promised to be very falling notes, the wailing of the drone successful, and they had given a consider like the undertone of all human sorrow able amount of attention to improvements

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low singing lilt of the second movament, generally, and also to the fitting to Jike the high note of whatever present commercial vehicles of lifting and loading sorrowful occasion calls out that articu- arrangements to render them suitable for late and grievous song to Bound above special purposes. They had continued the mourning of all the sorrows that have their polloy of development abroad in the ever happened, and the backward swing belief that the satisfactory business of the melody again, bring a compulsion verses would inevitably in the future to bear upon one, the compulsica to hear fall into the hands of those firms all the things which are never told qcept definitely established and offering repairs in mugio (the continuing note on which and spare parts facilities on the spot. history vibrates and lives), which sound. This policy had necesarily been somewhat ed from the beurt of some man of long costly, but their exerience already made ago, things stirring and grievmis, it may them fool that it should be justified by be, but oura, too, as they were him futurs resulte GERTRUDE BONE in Manchester Guardian

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