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BYRON'S SCOTTISH BLOOD.

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the modern shoulder plaid the old belted one-which is to be preferred ga the score of antiquity and picturesqueness- must stand over in the meantime, as must also the questions of providing tartan plaids, whether belted or shoul der in place of great-coats, and restor ing to the kilted regiments the old tartan doublet in which they were for

EDINBURGH, April 23rd. That there was a baleful and consummerly clothed, ing fire beneath the thick smoke of MARE CORELLI AND GOTLANDS sandal that clouded a great back of It is fairly certain that the popularity Byron's career is a matter not only of of Marie Corelli did not suffer from the safe conjecture but of sober fact. Like romantic mystery that hang about her origin. According to herself, she was of Burns, whom he resembled în tempera mingled Italian and Scottish (Highland)

was

Iment so closely-that-had-their-fortunate and connections She

been reversed each might have repeated Mackay in infancy by Dr. Charles

the well-known writer. of the career of the other, he was the There's a Gooth, Time Coming." victim of constitutional defects and im Cheer, Boys, Cheer," and other popular pulses which in Byron's case were intensonga Dr. Mackat álled several import sified by heredity to a degree that, ant journalistic positions, and was New humanly speaking, made meral normality York correspondent of The Times during of existence all but impossible. When the American Civil War. Shortly after the facts of his father's life and of his the close of that campaign be settled own unbringing are taken in conjunction down at Oban," where, and afterwards in with the tragic record of the Gardons of London, he devoted much time to the Gight one is inevitably reminded of those the education of his adopted daughter." eases of ancestral duom that former the At that time one of the "attrac favourite themes of the Greek dramatists. tions of Obat WAS William Black, Consideration of such circumstances does the novelist. Marie was then regard- not condone. Byron's insane defiances of ed as a

coming musician. Professor accepted moral standards. But it ex Blackie called Dr. Charles Mackay one plains many if not all of his moral aber afternoon and heard his adopted daughter rations, and it brings in a timely giving operatic selections on the piano. minder of the wise pronouncement that Ha tossed his head and exclaimed, Why moral suffering drew from Robert Barns: don't you play the grind old Scottish melodies 1 and then began to buin some What's done, we partly may compute, of his favourites. Dr. Charles Mackay

was not in a Cheer, Boys, Cheer! Boys, Cheer frame of mind. He doted on Alarie, for where he predicted a brilliant future, and expected his visitors to worship at her shrine. Turning to the Professor he said icift, Very well, Professor Blackie; you shall come hero and give Mario music lessons, and in re- to write turn she'll teach you how poetry" Blackie tilted his chin, stared coldly nt Charles Mackay, and then stalked away. He aerer cutered the housh again or spoke to Mackay or Maria Corelli.

That know not what's resisted.

In view of the record of his Scottish ancestors, also we may conclude that the great intellectual gifts that gave a pic turesque salience to Byron's passions were at the same time effective in divert- ing them, to a large extest, into regions of

pure imagination, sad in making them the inspirations of his fame and his achievement, and not the instrumenta of his complete destruction.

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Everybody knows that Byron's mother, the thirteenth of her line, was one of the Gordons of Gight, Aberdeenshire, but few people-Mrs. Byron herself was

No longer can it be complained that peculiarly ignorant of the facta-know lawn tennis is a game for an exclusivo exactly what a terrible race, these. Gor few. As the number and variety of its dans were. In the course of three cen-players ever widens some of its rigid turies scarcely one of the lairds died decently in his bed. Rarely indeed has politeness are less observed, and a breezy unconventionality marks the manner in there been such a record of violent con- which some of its followers now address. duct, und violent deaths, resulting in the one another. Which brings us to the disappearance of the main male line in story. At one of the Glasgow Corpora favour of women on two occasions. The tion Courts the other evening a young family tree, in fact, supplies a chronicle lady, obviously consumed with anpati- which helps us to understand why Byron ence, raced up and down. Again and was what he was g

again she glanced at a wrist watch, and It is of interest to note that in his at times banged her racket vehemently youth the poet spoke with a decided on the ground. At long last another Aberdeen accent. He was at pains in young lady armed with a racket made a late years to assume the politest English, hurried and breathless appearance. But but till the end his tongue was infuenced by the habitual phonetic conditions of his calf country." I once heard from a man who knew Trelawny, the. friond of Shelley and Byron, that when Byron last his temper and when he awoke in the morning he often fell back on the accent of his early days It was Tre lawny who recorded Byron's partiality for a Gordon tartan jacket, "SUPERB AS JOD-ORABBER"

before she could make any apology sho was greeted by a voice, in which honest indignation was the predominant note as follows: Ma Goad, Bella, whit the

has kep' you?":

wHY, LAUDEIL WAS TURNED DOWN.

been realling how Sir Harry Lander, An Aberdeen temperance reformer bas who is a strict abstainer, was turned down" by the T.T.". folks of the Granite City some 25 years ago. Tho

I notice that in his paper,, Bart'a budding comedian was one of the artists Broadsheet," Mr. Bart Kennedy, patrio at the Temperance Society's New Year tie. Irish-Englishman, is grieved about Festival, and the organiser was anxious the way England, our: English," is to "book" bim for the following year. being ruled to-day. "The gentleman But the council vetoed that proposal who is now at the helm of State," he Sir Harry had committed the blunder of writes, is a handsome Scot with wavy singing "There's Something in the poetic hair," Nothing wrong with that Bottle for the Mornin'"-at a temper statement, of course, but Bart adds:ance festivali

The spiritual home of this legislatora DIG AT DAVIE was-and is in the Innd where the sauerkrant blossoms as the rose.”

But

It has been suggested in the House of Commons that an operation should be adds gracefully"We are getting a hit performed on Mr David Kirkwood: for fed up with the Scots brand of legie-the purpose of remering his rs; but that lator. He is running England. And would he too dangerous, it is now agreed, running it. very badly. Bart says "We!

like him well, but if I may put it so, we as it would have to go too deep would like him more well if we saw the PERSONALIA, back of him. As a job-grabber the Scot is superb." MARRIAGE,

The majority of Scotland's boxing noble, the Marquis of Clydesdale, being celebrated with the usual gifts and At the U.F. Parish Church, Rothesay and there are lumps on his cheek; thus, festivities. His left eye is discoloured on April 17th, William Allan McLend he explains are gifts from the ring." Lennox, youngest son of the Inte Mr. The Marquis, by the way, is to be ope John Lennox, C.N. Co., Hongkong, to of the suite in attendance on Mr. James Elizabeth Cook (Bessie), third daughter Brown, the Lord High Commissioner at

of Mr. W. C. Millar, cattle dealer, and of Mrs. Millar, Cruden House, Rothesay SCOTS ROLDIPLE DRESS.

the forthcoming meetings of the Getera! Assembly of the Church of Scotland

There is no doubt that in the House of I was reading, the other day,, about the Commons Mr. Snowden's assistant, Mr. changes in our Scottish soldier's raiment William Graham, one of the members for which the Government have authorised. Edinburgh, is regarded as being a These will tend to restora, to the national greater Parliamentary success than bis dress some part of the aesthetic values chief. Indeed, he has probably made a of which it was deprived owing to the more favourable impression on the war. But the occasion of these changes House than any of the other junior might have been utilised as an opportu Ministers, Efficient to a degree, always nity for re-examining this matter be fully primed with every detail of every the Scottish soldier's uniform matter with which he has to deal. Mr. really does not require overhauling from Graham has a pleasing and coneliitory head to foot. At present it is bat a manner, and is very popular with nem- travesty, I fear, of the original. (Such hera în' all quarters of the House lin is the opinion of that ultra-Scot, the like some of his colleagues, he never Hon. R. Erskine of Marr.) It looks, as riffles the House, but, on the contrary, if the Army tailors were persuaded that, seems to have the faculty of carrying in sartorin matters, the Augustan age opicion largely with him.

of Scotland is the age of Walter Scott Mr. Welsh, the Labour MP, lonks nt all events, it is that epoch that wouch more the post than the miner must refer their gout-bair sporrans and though it is only four years since he their Glengarry **** caps," Surely the

ceased to go underground.He is des proper headgear for the Scottish soldier cribed by London gossip as having no matter whether his regiment be High- land or Lowland-is the gond old Scottish dreamy eyes and thick, curly hair. When bonnet-the mail, fat, dark-blue bonnet visitor werk to the House of Commons which was generally worn in Scotland to see him the other day, he sought as sistance in identifying him. "Oh," said previous to the inception of hat and cap the functionary, you'll easily sunt him. The Glengarry bonnet, on the other He looks as if he had forgotten to hrush hand, a comparatively modern.

The

his hair." gaelte for a purse is sporan, and it should therefore be a purse, not the gont-hair. war office contraption, but a leather University, the famous sprinter and aporan, with a brand top. Spats, which Rugby footballer, whose family is well Gael friend of mine styles "log-cuffs known in the Far East, is to take part should be abolished, as being unsightly in a series of evangelistic meetings "to to the ere, useless, and utterly opposed be held in Glasgow in September." "At

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