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Pesane, 1743" Fessie was Court painter to Frederick the Great of Prussia; and copy of this portrait, in pencil, is in the National Gallery, Berlin, Mr. Keith, one of the donors," came, upon the “old master in a dealer's shop in Inverness, EDINBURGH. August hand was informed that, with a number The vory wale o Scotland" was the of others, it was saved from a fire at description applied by Robert Louis Cantray House. The Field Marshal was Stevenson to Deeside, which, with the the younger brother of the last Hote arrival of the King at Balmoral becomes ditary Earl Marischal of Soctland, he once more the centre of social life and was axiled. As an early age "owing to activity in the country. More and more, his devotion to the Stuart cause; and ho the North of Scotland in the Autamm became one of those soldiers of fortune of the year is the resort of fashionable whose raaks were so frequently and so Society, headed by the Court itself. For honourably recruited from the notabla the next six weeks brilliant functions class to which ha belonged. He com

the service armies in

of and nasemblies, not only on, Decaide basmanded in many other parts of the Highlands, Spain, Russia,

It in will be the rule. This year Royalty, will said that he left Russia partly by be more largely represented than usual. reason of the fact that the Empress desired him to bo ber The King has often been heard to de-Elizabeth: clare that it is only when he is staying consort as well as one of her principal at Balmoral that he is able to devote time commanders. In the service of Prussia His to really serious reading. A quantity of be covered himsell with glory. new books therefore always precedes him statue, one of those erected by Frede- to his Highland home, and this year has rick the Great to "the four most leserv proved no exception to the rule. Hising, stands in the Wilhelm's Plats, Majesty is a greater reader than is Berlin, and its replien was presented to generally supposed, and he rarely allows the town of Peterhead by the grandfather

and Prussia.”

a book of any real importance to escape of the present ex-Kaiser. Field Marshal hix notice. At the same time he rarely Keith fall at the Battle of Hochkirk, By or never reads modern fiction. and has fighting against the Austrians. had to confess on more than one occasion Royal command. his body was conveyed that he has never na much as heard the to Berlin, where it was interred with My bro title of a best seller" when it has been much pomp and ceremony. mentioned in his presence. It is hooks of ther leaves me a noble legacy," wrota the travel and biography that make most ap-Earl Marischal, who was also an exile. peal to His Majesty, and be often pencils Last year he had Bohemia under ran- interesting marginal notes in those deal- som, and his personal estate is 70 ducats" ing with scenes he has visited or people (about £25). be has known. The library nt Balmoral is an exensive one, anu constant, addi- tions are made to it.

PRESBYTERIANS AND BT. STEPHEN'S CRYPT. ) The Marquis of Lincolnshire as Lor

Great Chamberlain, and in that capacity Shooting. Eshing, motoring, walking responsible for the control of the fabric and a little stag-hunting are the King's of the Houses of Parliament, has inform- chief relaxations during his Scottish holi ed Mr. Tan-Macpherson, M.P., that his day. He is a good trout fisher, but he son may be baptised by & Presbyteriana much prefers fishing for the fine salmon minister in St. Stephen's Crypt. It will of the Balmoral country. Sometimes be recalled that Mr. Macpherson had "ar; rods are abandoned, and the fish arranged that the rite should be performed netted, the King always taking a hand by the Rev. Dr. Archibald Fleming, of in dragging in the full net. The match. St. Columba's (Church of Scotland), like the proceeds of a day's abooting, Font Street, but that objection was raised appears later on the Royal table. But by Canon Carnegie in his dual capacity there is always a bargé curplus, and the as Speaker's chaplain and incumbent of hospitals benefit by this. King Edward the ecclesiastical parish of St. Mar- used to be very keen on shooting and garet's, within which the chapel is stag-hunting expeditions on

large situated.

He claimed that the building scale, but King George profers smaller had been consecrated for the worship of parties, and only takes part in one or two the Church of England, and that he was stag hunts during his stay in the North; therefore legally bound to resist ita Although a golf course has been laid sise for

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out at Balmoral. the King does not dầu; the minister of another Church. That it. God is not one of the games. After posititon, however, begs one of the most dinner he often goes with one of his sons important points at issue. I believe that or guests into the billiard room and the evidence as to consecration is doubt- plays for an hour.

ful and if the ceremony took place at Probably few people know that on the all, it was in pre-Reformation days. Balmoral estate the King owns a whisky Certainly the building had been desecrat distillery. It is near Abergeldie Castle, ed since, for although it is one of the and is known as Lochnager. The whisky finest pieces of Gothic architecture ex is of a very pure and excellent quality, tant in this country, it was at one tize and is to be found in the decanters of used as a kitchen in connection with the aff the Royal households as well as in old residence of the Speaker, and after-. those of the Prince of Wales at St. wards degenerated still further into a James's Palace. Yet the King, like is lumber room. There is no record of re- father and grandmother, prefers a light consecration since Canon Carnegie's wine.

claim as Speaker's chaplain was equally untenable, since his relations with him Within certain limits, lo multiply are purely personal, and give him no highways is to improve traffic, and, in jurisdiction over any part of the fabric effret if not in actual fact, to diminish of the Palace of Westminster. The chapel distance. If the new road between Edin. is seldom used except for the marriage SOUTH burgh, Scotland's historic capital, and of members, and for the baptism of their Glasgow, it chief, industrial centre, children, and even these rights, which should prove the powerful agent it is have come to be regarded as prescriptive, expected the handsome sum to be laid are of modern origin. Other members out on the work may be expended with belonging to the non-Anglican Churches good renuit. But whether the policy of will now have the same rights na their laying out a vast sum of money upon colleagues. one road scheme is economically sound admits of some doubt. In building this

The super-Scot, the Hon. R. Erskine new highway across the country. "Glas gow, Edinburgh, and Lanarkshire are of Marr is asking for trouble in High- combining to provide a quarter of the land circles. He has been declaring that cost of the undertaking, while the balance the kilt was the invention of those of the bill is to be paid by the State. whose daily concerns carried them into It is expected that the road will be cam- the hills," and that the "true national pleted in three years' time, at a cost of dress of Scotland" in the trews. This £2,760,000. Work will be found on an theory does not explain away the tartan average for 5,000 men who would other-kilts of sculptured figures on an Irish, wise be receiving unemployment relief, stone. It is unlikely that the individuals" and who will escape for a time the thus bonoured were merely gillies: "The demoratising experience of the dole," true national language of Scotland is though the only men for whom such work he Gaelic," the Hon. Ruari says; but is really suitable are navvies. The pre- then again there are those who insist

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intended to spend about £600,000 on re- constructing the road, and particularly on widening it to a total breadth of twenty feet, with a carriage-way nighteen feet wide. Another trunk road about which proposals for reconstruction ha heen made, is that betwren Glasgow and Inverness, which runs by way of Lech Lomond through.. the hilly district of Glencoe to Fort-William, passing in its C. M. GRIEVE in Glasgow Herald. 168 miles course through 30 miles of BALVING THE GERMAN_FLEET. bleak, unnihabited country, unsurpassed Messrs. Cox and Danks have now got for the magnificence of its scenery. It the work of calving the German war is a proposal which has not yet reached vessels at Scapa Flow into full swing. | In practical stage, and discussion of it is Two destroyers have been beached on still in progress. Such are the schemes Mill Bay sands, and a third is being mooted or ja operation by which the fitted with its set of steel wire ropes. In Minister of Transport hopes to trans the final stage of calving the second form Scotland in readiness for a revival vessel, 80 men were engaged in 20 win- of trade, signs of which be professes to ches. These winches kept the steel haw- discern,

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taut, thus taking advantage every few A story of much interest gathers round minutes, of the lift exerted by the rising the portrait of Field-Marshal Keith, the tide on the pontoon. There is no inten- celebrated Scottish soldier of fortune, tion of raising the Hidenburg of the which has been presented to the town of Seydlitz this season. The Seydlitz in 40 Peterhead by Mr. Alexander Keith, re-feet above the water at low tide. It is tired London merchant, and Mr. Thomas interesting to note that the key to the Mackie, Sheriff-Clerk, two gentlemen whole salvage scheme is the huge sub- well-known in the north-east. The por- marine floating dock, which was sur- trait, which has been touched up by rendered by the Germans, and which Mr. Mr. Fiddes Watt, B.S.A., is signed A. Cox bought för breaking up.

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