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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1920.

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SIR WALTER SCOTTS GREAT YEAR.

THE FALL OF MAN.

SINGAPORE PILOT SERVICE. Captain Gardner of the 8.5. Katong has joined the pilot service a: Singapore.

JAPANESE LINES TO SOUTH AMERICAN.

Brilliant in 1520.

"The year 1820 might be con- sidered the most brilliant in Scott's careot. That was before it had been clouded by domestic Japan will, during 1921. pay aaffliction and crippling ill health," subsidy amounting to 1,038,000 says the Glasgow Herald. ven to the steamsoip companies trading with South America.

SCANDINAVIAN RETALIATION.

The Scandinavian countries have decided that should the new American Merchant Marine Act prove harmful to Scandinavia, retaliatory

will be taken.

measures

NEW-THAMES-SHIPREPAIRING- DEPOT.

Negotiations, it is stated. are still proceeding for the establish- ment of a ship-repairing depo: on

Father Vaughan on Canon

Barnes.

Father Barcard Vaughan, pre- aching at Lapley, near Stafford, referred to Canon Barnes's sermon on "The Fall of Man." He said that seldom had be read a sermon into which was packed His mother, her brother and so much bad science and worse her sister died within a few days theology. Were he to become a of each other, and be himself was follower of the Canon, he would so ill that even his iron resolution soon settle down to be not a A Christian, bur gave way and he despaired of re-scientist or covery. But in spite of mental a materialist, pure and simple. and bodily tortore his imagins-It did not do to take the specul- tion worked at its highest pitch |ations of scientific met more and gave to an astonished and seriously than those of others: delighted world The Bride of nor did it serve the cause of Lammermoor, "The Legend of science to exsl: a mere working Montrose," and "Ivanhoe, three hypothesis to the rank of an of his finest novela.

established scientific theory. No *Most of this excellent fiction | working hypothesis was more was dictated amid such agonizing than probable. It

used pain as it seemed no human with the intention of throw. frame could bear, and Scott'sing it aside as soon as a better

offered friends looked for the worst. explanation

itself. It Speaking of The Bride of Lam-bad do finality. Canon Barnes in It is stated that the output of mermoor, James Ballantyne says) bis attempt to explain evolution the Japanese shipyards during was not only written but from some fundamental stuff" the latter half of this year will published before Mr. Scott was was speaking of working total only 120,000 tons--a much able to rise from his bed; and he hypothesis, but when, be weat smaller figure that was anti-assured me that, when it was on

to say that "evolution cipated...

first put into his bands, he did describes facts" he was, without not recollect one single incident, warning, lifting the hypothesis character, or conversation it con- into a scientific theory. Was fair? Anyhow ic tained. A marvellous instance that of the triumph of mind, over-

moat unscientifi matter!

method of procedure. Again, was there any scientific evidence. forthcoming to prove that there was no fall of men that there was

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TWO STORIES AT A TIME. "'Ivanhos' was the first novel

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in which Scent broke away from nooitical sin, and cansequently purely Scottish ground, and Eng- no redemption? Those problems NEW U.S. VESSELS.

lish readers hailed it with were beyond the province of Sine now American steel acclamation. Dr. Moore, the science to determine. They be ocean-going steamets, four of author of Zaluco, had advised longed to the tealms of faith. which are oil tankers, are ready Burns to abandon the use of to start upon their maiden voy- the ground that it must narrow ages. They hare just passed the circle of his admirets, and successfully through their seano doub: Scort's native themes ares the authorship was perfectly trists, and have been awarded and language made the bighest classification of the United States Bureau of Ship ping, states a New York report.

• less well known. powerful appeal to those outside

A PROUD POSITION, the rank of Scots, and therefore lacking in full understanding and the Court of Session and literal- "He had position, and means: sympathy. But Ivanhoe hade

its setting in one of the mastre. Edinburgh and Abbotsford, romantic periods of English his-filled busy, prosperous, and happy tory, the 'Lion King' was a

hours. He was the host of the

S. Y. K. CHANGES. - The Nippon Yusen Kaisha bas made several changes in vessels on the Yokobama-Shanghai run, and by the first of November supremely popular subject, and orld: Abbotsford was the resort only the Kasuga Maru will be the book placed the author of the left with accommodation for Waverley Novels on the highest European passengers. The pinnacle of fame. Kokura Maru has been trans-i "From its publication, indeed,

PATE OF THE KISEI MARU.

well if some

of an unending stream of visitors and guests who came to enjoy its unstinted hospitality and recrea tions, to see and to hear the

tamods writer who, after -the ferred to the South Sea route and a certain decline in vogue may the Yamashiro Maru will go on be dated, and it would have been golden mornings of swift creation, moved among them, wise, “bum- the European run.

wise, friendly critics had bad the sense and therous, gay, as if toil and care "These were the boisterous It is reported that the Japanese courage to utter a warning that were without the gates. 5.9. Kissi Maru, from Ataru to might have served to obeck the Osaka, foundered and sank as a

lavish expenditure that marked days of the Abbotsford Hunt, result of the storm on October 7the brief period before the crash barning the water, and coursing came. While Ivanhoe' was in on the braes of Yarrow. The whole and it is believed that the master and 22 of the crew bave been lost progress Scott was at work als countryside joined in these revels on 'The Monastery, finding the ader the leadership of the Duke On October 9 an engineer and five seamen left the steamer in a writing of a tale that belonged to of Darnick, as Scott was called small

his own neighbourhood a relief by his neighbours in that hamlet beat in search

from the composition of one

The 1820 pages of the biography assistance, as the ship sinking, The boat capsized,

where his imagination was more glitter with splendour and echo

with merriment. but

of

severely taxed. three

the seamed succeeded in reaching the shore.

of

WES

THEN CAME

"Scott kissed hands on his KENILWORTH." baronetcy, moved a conspicuous NAUTICAL TRAINING IN CANADA. "The two stories seemed to figure in London society, sam his The Canadian Navy League give each other relish. like bread s0's affairs in happy progress and the Government Steamship and cheese, as Gray any of his welcomed Lockhart as a 800-10, Line are working hand in hand Batit of reading Greek prose and law, but built and bought lands. in the training of first-class boys for the sea

The youngsters will verse concurrently. The Mon-The only thing that troubled him be indented for four years, but astery was by no means well as the state of public affairs, for received, and Scott was constrain-in 1820, the ground swell of a instead of being called upon to ed to admit that the White Lady great war disturbed the country. pay a premium they receive pay and the Euphuist bad missed fire. The aftermath of the struggle at the rate of 100 dols. for the second, 300 dols. for the third and for the 1820 season, and Scott felt discontent.

It was an inauspicious opening with Napoleon was seething 500 dols. for the last. They are the check. But he quickly rallied. entered at seventeen years of age; and in 'The Abbot' and and two will be carried on board

"Kenilworth"

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A FEW YEARS DISTANT. "As one reads Lockhart's story each of the big Traqgatlatic amends for a comparative failure. of the year 1820, crowed with freighters.

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