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abet- been (brammar School tilaga3ine. Vol. XVI I I.

JUNE, 1915.

No. 3.

The School Muster Roll. Third instalment. With this instalment of the Roll the total number of names of Old Boys who are known to be serving either in the Navy or the Army is carried beyond 750. Additions to the Roll are being constantly made, and there can be little doubt that the total will soon reach 1,000, if indeed the names still unrecorded have not already brought it to that figure. Information helping to extend or to correct the Roll will be welcomed by the compiler, Mr. THEODORE WATT, 10 Moray Place, Aberdeen.

Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Cheyne,* Sir William Watson, Bart., C.B. (1863-68)--

Medical Consultant (temporary).

Cray, Surgeon (temporary) Andrew Moir (1908-09), M.B. Hall, Lieutenant (temporary) Alexander Harvey

(1889-

1895).

Lawrence, Midshipman Charles Christie (1904-08)—H.M.

Auxiliary Armed Cruiser " Otranto."

Souter, Surgeon (temporary) James (1889-91), M.B.-

H.M.S. " Wildfire."

The Army. •

REGULAR FORCES. Royal Regiment of Artillery. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY—

Edwards,* 2nd Lieutenant David (1903-09). McLaren,* 2nd Lieutenant Colin A.

(1902-10).

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Reid,* 2nd Lieutenant Edward Birnie (1902-13). of Reid,* 2nd Lieutenant Walter A. (1897-1909)—City Aberdeen Brigade. Taggart, 2nd Lieutenant John Douglas (1906-14)—City of Aberdeen Brigade.

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ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY—

Hay, 2nd Lieutenant Matthew (1893-99). Corps of Royal Engineers. Dawson,* 2nd Lieutenant William Maurice Grant (19051907)-137th Company. Rennie, 2nd Lieutenant James Alexander (1902-04). Infantry. ROYAL SCOTS—

Cochrane, 2nd Lieutenant John Harvey (1894-1900)-3rd Battalion (Reserve). Cochrane, 2nd Lieutenant William Gibson (1894-1901). ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT—

Clyne, Captain Chardin (1881-85)—Special Reserve. ROYAL FUSILIERS—

Chedburn, Private Bertram Stewart (1903-05)-2nd Public Schools Battalion. Kilgour,* Private William Ewart Gladstone (1888-97)24th (Service) Battalion (2nd Sportsman's). CAMERONIANS (Scottish Rifles)— Walker, 2nd Lieutenant James Walter (1894-96). BORDER REGIMENT—

Robertson,* 2nd Lieutenant Hugh Sinclair (1900-02)-9th (Service) Battalion. BLACK WATCH (Royal Highlanders)— Simpson,* 2nd Lieutenant James Alexander (1899-1903) -11th Battalion. KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS—

Kilgour, Private George (1881-90)-4th Battalion. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY—

Lamb,* Private Harry James (1905-06)-16th (Service) Battalion.

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GORDON HIGHLANDERS-Chambers-Hunter,* 2nd Lieutenant Charles A. (1911-13) —3rd Battalion. . Finlayson,* 2nd Lieutenant Finlay William Nugent (1902-09)-11th Battalion. Geddes,* 2nd Lieutenant Godfrey Power (1903-11)-11th Battalion, a t td. 3rd Battalion. Macdonald, 2nd Lieutenant George Harper (1900-05)11th Battalion. McKenzie, 2nd Lieutenant Campbell Grant (1910-12)-3rd Battalion. Mackintosh,* 2nd Lieutenant Thomas (1909-14)-11th Battalion. MacLennan, 2nd Lieutenant lain D. F. (1908-15)-3rd Battalion. Stewart, 2nd Lieutenant George Robert Wilson (1906-13) 10th Battalion. Taylor,* 2nd Lieutenant John William (1906-11)-11th Battalion. PRINCESS LOUISE'S (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)— Thomson,* 2nd Lieutenant A. Landsborough (1899-1908) 13th (Service) Battalion.

Royal Army Medical Corps. Brown, Lieutenant (temporary) Richard Gavin (1898), M.B.

Davidson,* Lieutenant (temporary) James Alexander (1893-1902), M.D. Gilchrist,* Lieutenant (temporary) Norman Stephen (1897-1901), M.D. Irvine, Lieutenant (temporary) Francis (1881-87), M.B. Jamieson,* Lieutenant (temporary) Herbert Mather (1894-98), M.B.

Mackenzie,* Lieutenant (temporary) John Moir (1905-08), M.B.

Macneill,* Lieutenant (temporary) John Ross (1905-06), M.B. Murray,* James Robertson (1895-1906), M.D.—civil surgeon for R.A.M.C. Rae,* Lieutenant (temporary) James (1889-1901), M.D.

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Reid, Lieutenant (temporary) John McGregor Hartley (1904-09), M.B.. Reith,* Lieutenant (temporary) Williamson Rust (18761877), M.D. Russell, Lieutenant (temporary) Bertie Ronald Gordon (1897-99), M.D. Saunders,* Lieutenant (temporary) Benjamin Theodore (1896-1908), M.B. Scott, Lieutenant (temporary) William F. G. (1895-96). Souper, Lieutenant (temporary) Hugh Ross (1894-1905), M.B. Tindall,* Lieutenant Robert (1891-98), M.B. SPECIAL RESERVE OF OFFICERS—

Reid, Lieutenant William James (1901-03), M.D., No. 18 Field Ambulance, attd . 3rd East Lancashire Field Ambulance. Indian Army.

Ogg,* 2nd Lieutenant Lindsay Ross (1902-04)—Transport and Service Corps. Gerrard,* 2nd Lieutenant Frederick W. (1905-06)-116th Mahrattas. Indian Medical Service.

Anderson,* Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vass (1869-74), M.B.—retired officer re-employed. TERRITORIAL FORCE. Yeomanry.

Anderson, Squadron Sergeant Major John Blackhall (1885). Durno,* Trooper Leslie (1905-08)-2nd (Reserve) Regiment. Ritchie, Trooper Douglas (1909-15). Honourable Artillery Company. Allardyce,* Gavin Leith (1894-1900). Royal Artillery—

ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. 1ST HIGHLAND BRIGADE—

Daniel, 2nd Lieutenant Francis Rennie (1905-14).

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ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. CITY OF EDINBURGH HEAVY BATTERY—

Grant,* Captain Robert William Lyall (1884-91). (for Defended Ports)— Mutch, 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Robert (1899-1901).

NORTH SCOTTISH GROUP

Royal EngineersDIVISIONAL ENGINEERS.

HIGHLAND GROUP—

Souper,* 2nd Lieutenant James Lorimer (1898-1909). SIGNAL SERVICE. HIGHLAND DI VISIONAL SIGNAL COMPANY—

Benton,* 2nd Lieutenant William Stephen (1904-11). Bruce,* 2nd Lieutenant William George (1901-14). Scholle, Lance-Corporal George William Walter (1906: 11). Ledingham, Archibald Reith (1900-09). FORTRESS ENGINEERS. CITY OF ABERDEEN—

Littlejohn, 2nd Lieutenant William Milne (1901-02). Infantry.

ROYAL SCOTS—

Kemp, Captain James Ogilvie (1883)-5th Battalion. LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT—

Duncan,

Major James Matthews (1887-90), M.B., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), attd. 5th Battalion. KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS— Napier, Rev. John Gordon Smith (1869-70), [C.S.] Chaplain, 2nd Class (T.F.), attd. 4th (The Border) Battalion. BLACK WATCH (Royal Highlanders)—

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Runcieman, Private John Warrack (1894-95). SHERWOOD

FORESTERS

(Nottinghamshire

and

Regiment)—

Derbyshire

Macpherson,* 2nd Lieutenant John (1900-03), M.B. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS—

Anderson,* 2nd Lieutenant Robert John Battalion. Macleod, 2nd Battalion.

Lieutenant

Norman

(1903-09)-6th (1902-03)--4th

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4TH GORDON HIGHLANDERS—

Littlejohn,* Captain (temporary) William (1888-92). Anderson, 2nd Lieutenant Cecil (1911-12). Bisset,* 2nd Lieutenant Douglas Maitland (1901-08). Bill, 2nd Lieutenant William James (1907-11). Inkster,* 2nd Lieutenant Walter (1903-08). Simpson, 2nd Lieutenant James (1902-06). Simpson, 2nd Lieutenant Robert Fraser (1899-1906). Tennant, 2nd Lieutenant Edward Martin Cookes (19091913). Thomson, 2nd Lieutenant James Walter Stewart (19041914).

Valentine,* 2nd Lieutenant Alfred B. (1905-11). Anderson,* Corporal Francis S. (1909-12)-2/4th Battalion.

Patterson,*

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James

(1906-12),

3/4th

Battalion.

Adam, Private Andrew Wilson (1909-14)-3 /4th Battalion. Davidson, Private William Alexander (1907-10)—died at Bedford, 15th April, 1915. Donaldson, Private James Brown (1909-10), 3/4th Battalion. Mackenzie, Private Robert Charles-. (1911-15)-3/4th Battalion. Mackie, Private Reginald Charles (1903-13)-3/4th Battalion. Private Norman James (1910-14)-2/4th Battalion. Stuart,* Private Cyril G. Johnston (1904-09).

Stewart,

5TH (Buchan and Formartin) GORDON HIGHLANDERS— Fowlie, Major Charles W. L. (1885-89)—killed in Flanders, 30th May, 1915. Smith, Major John T. (1883-84)-2/5th Battalion. Manson, Lieutenant Alexander (1901-04)-2 /5th Battalion. 6TH (Banff and Donside) GORDON HIGHLANDERS— Macpherson, 2nd Lieutenant John Symon (1909-11). Thom, 2nd Lieutenant Alfred Marshall (1900-01)-1/6th Battalion.

Turnbull, 2nd Lieutenant James Bruce (1897-99). Wilson, 2nd Lieutenant Hugh Norman Blackett (1905-14).

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Durno,* Private George Ferguson (1909-11). Mair,* Thomas (1886-88)-2/6th Battalion. 7TH (Deeside Highland) GORDON HIGHLANDERS— Paterson, 2nd Lieutenant George A. Reginald (1900-02)2/7th Battalion. Fraser, Private (Rev.) Joseph R. (1884-88). QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS—

Cooper, 2nd Lieutenant Alfred W. H. (1904-07)-2/4th Battalion. (County of London) LONDON REGIMENT (London Scottish)— Allan, Private Basil Sydney (1897-1902). Ross,* Private Launcelot Hugh (1898-1901)-2 /14th Battalion.

14TH

INNS OF COURT OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS—

Porter,* Charles Robert (1899-1900). Roy al Army Medical Corps. 1ST SOUTH MIDDLESEX MOUNTED BRIGADE FIELD AMBULANCE—

Mitchell, Lieutenant Alexander (1903-04), M.B. SCOTTISH HORSE MOUNTED BRIGADE FIELD AMBULANCE—

Drummond, Private John Gordon Lennox (1906-10). 1ST EAST ANGLIAN FIELD AMBULANCE—

Paterson, Lieutenant Arthur William (1883-87), M.B. HIGHLAND FIELD AMBULANCE— Davidson,

Lieutenant George (1879-80), M.D.

Slessor,* Lieutenant Thomas Stewart (1889-94), M.B.

and Honorary Lieutenant Thomas (1903-06). Morrison,* Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant Reginald Percy (1895-1905). Macdonald, Private George Harper (1900-05). Main,* Private William Knight (1907-11)-2/2nd. Stewart, Private Charles N. (1905-11). Whitehead, Private Frank John Sellar (1911-13). Cibb, Quartermaster

HIGHLAND CASUALTY CLEARING STATION—

Forbes,* Lieutenant Charles (1884-86), M.B. Milne,* Lieutenant Joseph Ellis (1882-84), M.D.

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1ST NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL—

Wilson, Captain James Leslie (1886-88), M.B. 1ST SCOTTISH GENERAL HOSPITAL—

Bisset, Lieutenant Ian G. (1897-1906), M.B.

Unit Unascertained— . Cheyne, Alexander (1903-09). Territorial Force Reserve. Rose, Lieutenant Donaldson S. (1878-80). COLONIAL AND OTHER TROOPS. A SSAM— Proctor,* Trooper Gordon C. (1904-09)—Assam Volunteer

Light Horse. Trooper Norman C. (1904-09)—Assam Volunteer Light Horse.

Proctor,* CANADA—

Abbey,* Trooper Robert (1903-08), Toronto. Cruickshank,* John Duguid (1899-1904)—Canadian Expeditionary Force (wounded near Ypres). Giles,* Private Charles Innes (1900-03)-2nd Canadian Contingent. Griffith,* Private William Fraser (1905- ?)-2nd Canadian Contingent. Watson,* Private John S. (1902-05)-12th Canadian Mounted Rifles, Calgary, Alberta. HONG KONG VOLUNTEER CORPS—

Taylor,* Private James Cameron (1904-06). INDIA-

Black,* Sergeant Alfred Alexander (1882-84)-1st United

Provinces Horse. Robert Niven (1901-05)—Calcutta Scottish Volunteer Corps. Kilgour, Sergeant-Major Thomas Ronald (1881-92)— Surma Valley Light Horse, Sylhet. Lothian,* William Arthur Cunningham (1892-1904)— Eastern Bengal Volunteer Rifles. Melvin,* William George (1888-96)—Calcutta Light Horse. Miller,* Keith Birnie (1898-1902)—Calcutta Scottish Volunteer Corps. Gilchrist,*

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SOUTH AFRICA—

Geddes,* Lieutenant Alexander Marr (1897-1903), M.B. Michie, Major George (1876-80), M.D. Milne,* Arthur John (1884-96), M.B.—South African Medical Reserve Force. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND MALAY STATES--

Buyers,* William (1894-99)—Malay States Volunteer Rifles. , .Macleod,* Robert (1892-96)—Malay States Volunteer Rifles. Mortimer,* Douglass Alexander (1895-99)—Malay States Volunteer Rifles. Snowie,* Herbert Lindsay (1899-1901)—Malay States Volunteer Rifles. •

WEST AFRICA—

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MacLean,* George Barrack (1892-97)--West African Expeditionary Force. Holmes, Robert Blake Worsley (1895)—West African Expeditionary Force.

A Canadian F.P. " Baptised." The following is an extract from a letter written on 24th May by an F.P. now at the Front with the Canadians:— " Well, for the last eight days we have been in the trenches, and I have received my baptism of fire; I came through without a scratch. How it was done I don't know. Yesterday our battalion made a charge and took some trenches. We were told that if we took them we would make a name for ourselves. Well we did, and I know I accounted for one German. For pretty nearly twenty-four• hours we were cut off from our lines, but we stuck to it and got through with reinforcements this morning and so were relieved. I was a little nervous before we charged, but when we got going and I saw a number of our fellows fall I simply lost my senses and didn't care for anything. I hear we are going right away from the trenches for a rest to-morrow. I hope it is true, it will do us all good."

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How BlIgUe 'Legge Died. of A letter has been received by an Aberdeen member MIDDLETON C. R. the Former Pupils' Club from DT. WILLIAM refer(1873-79), Medical Officer of Health, Singapore, with about Legge, Forsyth Angus ence to the death of Lieutenant Magazine. whom a short note appeared in the last issue of the following the publish to permitted We have been kindly extracts from the letter, which is dated 1st March, 1915 :to " I am very sorry that I have not been able before write, as I promised, and give you particulars of poor Angus Legge's death. Until to-day I have been on duty withAsthea Volunteers, and have had no chance of writing. any use matter of fact, I don't know if it would have been being doing so, as I was told that all letters from hereofare this will censored at Home, and I don't know how much avoid any to try shall I However, be allowed to pass.

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reference to anything the Censor could take exception to, considering the fact that the news of the mutiny has already been given out by the Press Bureau at Home. . . . " The facts are as follows :—On the afternoon of Monday, 15th February, one wing of the 5th Light Infantry (an Indian regiment stationed here) mutinied. They shot a number of Europeans—their own and other officers, and some civilians, including a lady. The available troops were immediately called out, including the Volunteers, and Angus Legge and myself were posted with the Volunteer Medical Company to the base at the P. & O. Wharf. Angus had been continuously on military duty since we were mobilised on the 6th August, after the outbreak of war, and early in January I had written Colonel Ferguson, R.A.M.C., asking whether I could get him back to civil duties. He replied that he could not spare him then, but would let him off as soon as he could. When I met Angus at the base he was in the best of health and spirits. At 4 a.m. on the 16th, Colonel Ferguson directed me to send with four stretcher-bearers and equipment to a certain place. As they were on the point of starting, Angus came up to me and said, ' If there is any risk let me go instead of . He is married, I am not.' I said, ' Of course there is risk, old chap, especially in bush fighting in the dark.' He said then, ' Please let me go.' I got the Colonel's permission for the change, and Angus took 's place in the motor car. At daylight came the news by telephone that he had been very seriously wounded. He, with his stretcher-bearers, was following up the firing line, but it appears that in the darkness and the thick bush some of the mutineers got behind them, and Angus was shot in the thigh from behind. The bullet divided the femoral and splintered the femur, causing a large wound of exit. He was heard groaning by one of the bearers, but the firing was so hot and at such close range that for anyone to show himself was certain death. As soon as it slackened one of the bearers went to his assistance, and, under Angus's directions, applied a tourniquet and splint. He was placed on a stretcher and carried to the road, where the stretcher was put on a car, and he was taken to the Civil General Hospital. Here he received all possible attention, but, unfortunately, without result, and he died of shock and haemorrhage soon after admission. He was buried with 20 others the same afternoon, and I was the only representative of his municipal or Volunteer colleagues who was able to be present. It is, however, proposed to accord the military honours which they would otherwise have received, to him and the other eight Volunteers who have lost their lives on duty. I will not say more than that his death has caused all

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who knew him here, and especially his colleagues in the municipality and Volunteers, the most sincere regret and sorrow. A plain statement of the facts speaks more for his splendid, unselfish devotion than anything that I could write. Colonel Ferguson was greatly shocked when I told him of Angus's .death, and I believe he has written Mrs. Legge. . . . " Will you please convey to Mrs. Legge and her family my most sincere and deep sympathy in her bereavement. Angus's father was a class-fellow of my father's in Arts and Divinity, and later he was my Classical master in the Grammar School from 1874 to 1878. Out of affection for his father I was glad when I heard that Angus was coming out to us, but he soon secured our affection and admiration for himself by his quiet, unassuming and lovable nature, and his knowledge of and keenness for his work. We all deeply deplore his untimely death, which cut short a career of so much usefulness and promise, but we are proud to have had with us one who proved by his own act that ' greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his f riend. ' "

Private in the 16th %tafforb Veurp %Noe (1900-03), (Middlesex Regiment),

Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own died at Croydon Isolation Hospital on 1st March, aged 27

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years. He was trained in the office of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Aberdeen, and about five years ago went to Paris, where he had received a good business appointment. He came home in September of last year and enlisted for foreign service in the Middlesex Regiment. While undergoing training, he contracted scarlet fever, and died in hospital. He was a brother of Lieutenant Angus F. Legge, and of Edward Legge (1893-99), who is serving with the Second Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

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militant (hap (1886-7 and 1895-99), of the 2nd Battalion Canadian Infantry, was killed in action in France on 23rd April. He was 32 years of age. Before the War he was engaged in business as a real estate agent in Vancouver, British Columbia, and had travelled much both and the United States. On the outbreak of war in Canada the First Canadian Contingent, which after traininghe joined at Va]cartier came over to England and continued training at Salisbury Plain. In February the Canadians left Gray was in the trenches only for a very short for France. time. He was struck by a bullet in the head and died instantaneously.

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Gordon Highlanders (T.F.), was reported been killed in France. He graduated in Arts at Aberdeen University in 1912, and before the War was a divinity student of the third year of the United Free Church College, atAberthe deen. In a letter from the Front, his- class-fellow Grammar School, Lieutenant James I. Watson, wrote:— but " Since coming out here he had not been in good health, the hospital from us rejoined had stuck out well. He just day we entered the trenches, and was killed the following day. He was out digging a communication trench about 200 yards from the German trenches, and just behind our own trench. At 9.30 he was hit, and he gave a low cry. The not man working next him went over at once, but he did was he but trench, the into him got We move. speak or dead. He had been hit by two bullets, one right through face. Both the chest from side to side, and another in the He was time. same the practically must have hit him at many alongside here, buried and stretcher by back carried others of the battalion."

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(Marks tbeobore %mitb (1890-98), Lieutenant, 3rd Dragoon Guards, died on 22nd May at Boulogne Hospital, from wounds received in action on 14th May. Some years ago he joined the 3rd Dragoon Guards but latterly he had been living in South Africa. War broke out while he was home on holiday and he promptly rejoined his old regiment, being gazetted in September. He was 31 years of age. Victor (Marks 3ames flbactlae (1908-10), Sergeant of A Company, 1/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders (T.F.), was killed while serving in France, on 21st April. He graduated at Aberdeen University in March, 1914, with firstclass honours in Classics.

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Militant Bleganber IDaribson (1907-10), LanceCorporal, 1/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders (T.F.), died at the County Hospital, Bedford, on 15th April, aged 21 years. He was an apprentice in the Union Bank of Scotland, George Street Branch, Aberdeen. "Mentioned in Dispatches." In the dispatch published in April from Rear-Admiral the Hon. Horace L. A. Hood relating to the naval operations off the Belgian coast in the latter part of October and the beginning of November last, special mention was made of Lieutenant-Commander Jameson Boyd Adams (1893,94), R.N.R , a member of the Admiral's staff. He was second in command of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition of 1907-09, and got within 97 miles of the South Pole. Before the outbreak of war he was a divisional officer in England of Labour Exchanges.

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This is the time of inspectors, who are in many ways the worst ordeal of the year. Some have already paid their visit to the School, but there are more to come. The Bursary Competition also looms ahead. The Sixth and Fifth are working hard to keep up the high reputation which the School has gained in the Competition, and we wish the best of luck to all who are going to enter. Since the last issue of the Magazine, the 4th Gordons have been engaged at the Front, and several Former Pupils have been killed and wounded. Among those wounded is C. A. Dean, who was a member of last year's Sixth. A post card sent by several Former Pupils at the Front was read to the School. They assure us that they think of the School; let them accept the assurance that they are constantly in the thoughts of all at the School who have not the good fortune to be with them. Empire Day possessed this year a peculiar significance in view of what is happening on the Continent at the present time. The School expected something special in the way of a speech, and its expectations were fulfilled. Principal George Adam Smith gave a splendid address, dealing with our great Empire and the things which keep it together. The singing, led by the Junior Choir, was up to the usual standard, and the cheering was as hearty as ever. Altogether it was an Empire Day which will long be remembered in the School. Mr. Gall, of Messrs. Gall and Walker, builders, has presented the School with an old stone seat which originally belonged to Dr. Melvin, who was Rector from 1826 to It is good to have a relic of Dr. Melvin, and the gift is 1853. much appreciated. The seat now stands in the School Garden. .5

Cricket is now in full swing at the School, in spite of the forecasts of the pessimists. H. Mackintosh and J. T, Barley,

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the only remaining members of last year's team, are captain and secretary respectively. Several of the old fixtures have been abandoned this year, as many teams are not playing on account of the War, but there will be a few matches. Already the team has drawn with Gordon's College and been defeated by the Royal Asylum, but better things are hoped for in the return matches. The School Tennis Club has started its season again with W. Rosshurst as captain and E. R. Linklater as secretary. As usual a court has been secured in the Duthie Park, and a fair membership has been secured although, naturally, it is not so large as in previous years.

Random Notes. Answer to correspondent :— Yes, it was " Rule Britannia " that was sung after the Marseillaise on Empire Day. We thought that every Britisher knew the national songs of his country. We are told that cricket is being neglected by the School in favour of tennis. Whether this is so or not, the tennis club is certainly in a flourishing condition, thanks to the enterprise of a member of the Modern School, who is an enthusiastic if not an accomplished exponent of the game of pat-ball. If one were to go by appearances, it might be suspected (as one of the masters observed) that the enthusiasm of the captain, and indeed of others of the Modern side, is only the enthusiasm of those who visit the court but to ask the question : Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me?

However, knowing the Moderns as we do, we must assert that such a charge against these excellent gentlemen would be the height of injustice. The Classical side, too, shows high ambition. They have been practising for months, and are simply bubbling over with enthusiasm, despite many disadvantages : their court is cramped, the net not sufficiently long to stretch across it, and the ball, cleverly constructed by an obliging member of the Sixth, is of such a nature that it will not rebound from the court. Occasionally too, amidst the magnificent rallies and clise4-derly mehies, mtteh disquietude. is caused by the

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idiosyncrasies of one of the players, who, labouring under the delusion that he is a past master in the art, persists in introducing fantastic twirls of his racket in a most pedantic fashion, and sending across absolutely impossible balls. And the imprecations and threats of his companions seem only to add to his zest. In consequence of these bouts, the Sixth are in a perpetually jovial mood, although they have of late become much more serious, not on account of the threats of a certain master to deal with them with his personal fist, but on account of the close vicinity of the Bursary Competition, a fact which is responsible to some extent also for the nonhumorous and uninteresting quality of these notes. Perpetrated by a member of the Fifth:— " On that eventful day "—"lo die eventuum." The following is a translation given by a member of the Sixth :— " Sic partem maiorem suarum copiarum Antonius amisit veteranarum "—" Thus Antonius lost the greater part of his own veterinary forces." One member of the Sixth has become of late the cynosure of the whole School by reason of his extraordinary taste in raiment. The conspicuous items include shining neck-ties, gorgeous socks, and we may add, brilliantly patriotic handkerchiefs; he has also been seen walking in our principal streets with his hair brushed back and his trousers rolled up. He seems to imagine that his clothing is just a dream, but most people would agree that it is far more calculated to dissipate dreams of all kinds. An examination was recently held in Greek Verse Composition, the result of which is being awaited with the utmost anxiety, especially by two members, viz., the aforementioned of the variegated colouring, and his selfish friend (he plays golf). These have throughout the year studiously devoted themselves to Greek Verse until they have reached a high pitch of perfection. One indeed was so confident in himself that during the examination hour he elucidated a Greek Unseen before turning his genius towards the art of versifica• tion. Do you know the two members of the Fifth, who, being too young for enlistment, have decided to ease the excess of their indignation by a violent onslaught upon each other two or three times a day ?

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The dates given in parentheses after names indicate the sessions attendance at the School.

* Indicates Member of the Former Pupils' Club. (1863-68), C.B., Sir WILLIAM WATSON CHEYNE,* Bart. services are at .C.S., is one of the civil doctors whose " retainer " of a paid is He Admiralty. disposal of the £5,000 per annum. K.C.V.O., sailed in Sir ALEXANDER OGSTON* (1855-58), with a view to Belgrade, for route en April for Salonica, there. subjects British engaging in medical work among one of the appointed been has Sir JOHN COLLIE* (1873-76) This is one of Epsom. at Hospital War the to physicians 2500 beds. the largest hospitals in Europe, containing is attached to M.B., (1907-09), WILL ALEXANDER JAMES Serbian Army. the with Hospital Medical British the Royal Artillery, Major HENRY F. LYALL GRANT* (1888-95), of Home Director the of Staff General who was on the to the Force Expeditionary Defence, has proceeded with the Mediterranean. Indian Army, is at Captain CLEMENT LEE COBBAN, of the Officer, 3rd grade, Staff General as a present at the War Office He is acting as Operations. Military of Director the under language. Russian an interpreter of the (1900-12), of the Lieutenant HECTOR R. MACDONALD* Train (T.F.), has Divisional Army Service Corps, Highland in obtaining successful been having commission, resigned his held examination the in candidates, 209 the 18th place, out of Royal Military College, the to entrance for February in Sandhurst. (1896- 1), 3rd Battalion Private WILLIAM OGILVIE DONALD missing " after the great (Toronto Regiment), was posted " Expeditionary Force was enbattle in which the Canadian to be a prisoner of war known gaged in April. He is now Germany. at Giessen,

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WILLIAM LOUDON MomsoN (1864-68), M.A., LL.D., was recently elected Master of Clare College, Cambridge. He was Second Wrangler in 1876, and has been a Fellow of Clare College since that year, and Senior Tutor since 1894. JOHN RAE* (1882-85) has just been appointed joint general manager of Parr's Bank, which is one of the largest English banking companies. He entered the service of the National Bank of Scotland in 1885, and after some years was appointed to the inspecting department of Parr's Bank at Warrington. In 1900 he was promoted to be superintendent of branches, and in 1911 assistant general manager in London. ROBERT SCOTT TRouP* (1888-91), of the Indian Forest Service, has lately been appointed Assistant Inspector-General of Forests, to reside at Simla. Since 1905 he has been engaged at the Forest Research Institute and College, Dehra Dun, India, first as instructor and afterwards as research officer in forest economics, forest working plans, and sylviculture. ROLAND SINCLAIR (1900-02), M.B., D.P.H., was recently appointed assistant school medical officer for the county of Aberdeen. Since 1911 he has engaged in private medical practice successively at Keith and at Edzell. ANDREW MILNE* (1903-09), M.A., Dux and Gold Medallist of the School in 1909, has been awarded the Croom Robertson Fellowship of Aberdeen University. The Fellowship, which is of the annual value of £200 and is tenable for three years, was founded in 1897 in memory of Professor GEORGE CROOM ROBERTSON, M.A., of London, who was a pupil at the School from 1853 to 1857. I-Iis portrait hangs in the School Hall. The last holder of the Fellowship was JAMES OLIVER THOMSON (1899-1900), and a previous holder was ANDREW R. WILLIAMSON (1898-1902). HERBERT TOWER SORLEY* (1899-1909), M.A., of the Indian Civil Service, has been awarded the Blackwell Prize of Aberdeen University.

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ERNEST MAIN* (1903-08), M.A., who has been on the editorial staff of the Aberdeen Free Press since 1911, has joined the staff of the Glasgow Herald. Rev. THOMAS BURNETT (1853-55), M.A., of Kennethmont, recently attained his jubilee as a minister of the Church of Scotland. He was ordained to Daviot in 1865, and translated to Kennethmont in 1870. The Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM MACGREGOR* (1865-67), G.C.M.G., formerly Governor of Queensland, has bought the estate of Chapel-on-Leader, near Eariston, Berwickshire.

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Rev. WILLIAM WALKER REID* (1889-90), M.A., minister of Mannofield Parish Church, Aberdeen, has been appointed to Dumbarton Parish Church. Rev. GEORGE STANLEY RUSSELL* (1894-1901), M.A., of St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Congregational Church, has recently accepted a renewed and unanimous call to the important charge of Grafton Square Church, Clapham, London. WILLIAM GEORGE MELVIN* (1888-96), A.M.Inst.C.E., of apthe Public Works Department, India, has recently been surveyor burgh to (corresponding pointed engineer-in-charge at home) of Howrah, a town of 200,000 inhabitants. In addition he is assessor for the taxation on buildings. been CHARLES BROOMHEAD* (1868-72), M.D., who has retired. now has 1877, since Oldham in in practice Police FREDERICK W. GERRARD* (1905-06), of the Indian Mahrattas. 116th the Service, has been gazetted to JOHN TAYLOR SIMPSON (1884-95), solicitor, who has been at Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, for some years, has now returned to Aberdeen. THOMAS G. WATSON* (1896-99) has received an appointment in Brisbane, Queensland. JOHN LIVINGSTONE* (1906-08), who is in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, is stationed at Fort Chimo, Ungava, via Cartright, Labrador. A letter posted by him on 1st November arrived in Aberdeen in the middle of April ! ALEXANDER SIMPSON (1874-75), M.A., M.D., has been appointed by the War Office administrator of the Lord Derby War Hospital, Warrington, with the honorary temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. been HARRY JAMES RAE (1898-1904), M.A., M.B., has just appointed Tuberculosis Medical Officer for the County of Aberdeen. GEORGE STEVENSON MIDDLETON* (1863-68), M.A., M.D., is to receive the honorary degree of LL.D. from Glasgow University. Until recently he was senior physician of the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow. P. CHALMERS MITCHELL (1879-80), M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., is the author of a volume entitled " Evolution and the War," recently published by Mr. John Murray. of IAN A. KENDALL BURNETT* (1894-1903), M.A., is one military for volunteered whom of (both compilers the two service when the War broke out) of the recently-published " List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900, now in the British Museum." He was appointed in 1910 assistant in the Department of Printed Books of the British Museum.

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ALFRED REGINALD MACRAE (1904-05), District Police Superintendent at Delhi, India, has been appointed Deputy Commissioner at Basra, Persian Gulf, the new territory taken by the British early this year. He joined the Indian Mounted Police while a student at Aberdeen University.

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JAMES HUMPHRY SKEEN (1876-85), M.B., who has been medical superintendent of Kirklands Asylum, Bothwell, for 21 years, has just been appointed medical superintendent of the Fife and Kinross Asylum.

At the Spring Graduation of Aberdeen University, d grees were conferred on the following Old Boys:— Master of Arts (M.A.)— ALEXANDER NICOL (1905-11), with First Class Honours in Classics. GODFREY POWER GEDDES* (1903-11), with Third Class Honours in Classics. JOHN GRANT* (1906-12). JAMES PATTERSON* (1906-12). CHARLES WILLIAM WALKER

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Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc. Agr.)— JOHN COOPER* (1909-12). Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.)WILLIAM WALKER CRUICKSHANK

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Honours. GEORGE TOD WRIGHT* (1901-06),

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Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.), and Bachelor of Surgery (Ch. B.)— JOHN MOIR MACKENZIE* (1905-08). GILBERT WOLRIDGE ROSE* (1900-09). Diploma in Public Health (D.P.H.)— JOHN MCGREGOR HARTLEY REID (1904-09), M.B. BENJAMIN THEODORE SAUNDERS* (1896-1908), M.B. In the Faculty of Medicine, ROBERT D. LAWRENCE* (1900-09), M.A., was awarded the Keith Gold Medal for Systematic and Practical Surgery, and ROBERT SCOTT CUMMING* (1905-10) was awarded the Matthews Duncan Gold Medal in Obstetrics.

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MACDONALD (1872-74).—At Ladyhill, Elgin, on 10th March, PATRICK JAMES MACDONALD,* The Croft, Elgin, to Catherine Frances, daughter of the late Thomas Yool, Kirkhill, Elgin. CONNON (1881-85).-At 84 Rosemount Place, Aberdeen, on 3rd April, ROBERT EARL ACUTT CONNON, Ordnance Examiner (Newcastle-on-Tyne), to Susan Argo, younger daughter of the late John Sutherland. WILSON (1885-91).—At the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on 1st June, ROBERT G. WILSON,* jun., A.R.I.B.A., architect, to Annie, daughter of William Morrison, of Craigston, by Turriff. RAE (1889-1901).--At Birmingham, on 28th April, JAMES RAE,* M.A., M.D. (Aberd.), R.A.M.C., second son of William Rae, advocate, Aberdeen, to Alison Barnett, youngest daughter of Thomas Wells, Edgbaston, Birmingham. TINDALL (1891-98).--At St. Thomas's Church, Heathery Cleugh, On 3rd April, ROBERT TINDALL* M.B. (Lieutenant, R.A.M.C.), only son of M. J. M. Tindall, Polmuir Road, Aberdeen, to Mary, only daughter of Octavius Monkhouse, Fairfield, Stanhope, Co. Durham. COCHRANE (1894-1900).--At St. James's Church, Aberdeen, on 20th March, JOHN HARVEY COCHRANE, 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion The Royal Scots, elder son of the late Thomas Cochrane, manager of the Town and County Bank, Aberdeen, and Mrs. Cochrane, 3 Queen's Terrace, Aberdeen, to Bee St. George, daughter of the late Major Foulerton, The Leinster Regiment, and ward of Mr. D. M. M. Milligan, 20 Albyn Place, Aberdeen. WATT (1894- ?).—At Montreal, on 27th April, ARTHUR STEWART WATT,* M.A. , LL.B., barrister, Wetaskiwin, Alberta, only son of John Stewart Watt, M.A., LL.B., Wetaskiwin (and formerly of Aberdeen), to Jenny Lenore Gordon Paterson, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Paterson of Thornton, Stirlingshire, and Cliff House, Cults, Aberdeenshire. ELDER (1896-1902).—At Christ Church, Harpurhey, on 12th May, JAMES ELDER,* M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., son of James Elder, 52 Dee Street, Aberdeen, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of James Walmsley, Dean Brook, Moston, Manchester. MACPHERSON (1896-99).—At Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, W., On 16th February, ROBERT WILLIAM MACPHERSON,* M.D., D.P.H., Chester, to Gladys Gwendoline, only child of the late Henry Montague Sacre and Mrs. Sacre of Tarvin, Cheshire.

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GEDDES (1897-1903).—At St. Andrew's Church, Newlands, Cape Town, on 28th April, ALEXANDER MARK GEDDES,* M.B., Ch.B. (Aberd.), Woodstock, Cape Town, to Josephine Maude, eldest daughter of Alfred Wilkinson, Esq., Newlands, Cape Town. ASHER (1898-1903).—At the Grand Hotel, Aberdeen, on 20th March, ROBERT SMITH ASHER,* Lieutenant, 134th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers, eldest son of R. S. Asher, Revesby, Great Western Road, to Maggie, youngest daughter of J. C. Blake, 18 Louisville Avenue. SNOWIE (1903-08).—At St. Didwells Parish Church, Exeter, on 20th May, ROBERT SIMPSON SNOWIE,* Lieutenant, R.A.M.C., to Helen Mary (Nellie), younger daughter of George Merson, 43 Burnett Place, Aberdeen.

OBITUARY. Rev. JOHN SOUTER (1833-35), M.A. , who recently resigned his charge as senior minister of Inverkeithny Parish Church, • died at the Manse, Inverkeithny, on 15th May, in his 96th year. He was born in 1819, graduated M.A. in 1839, was a schoolmaster for fifteen years from 1844, and was minister of Inverkeithny from 1859. He was the senior graduate of Aberdeen University, and was probably our oldest " Boy." General JAMES N. YOUNG,* who was born in 1824, is the oldest member of the Former Pupils' Club, and entered the School two years before Mr. Souter. Sir JAMES DONALDSON* (1842-46), M.A., LL.D., D.D., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, died at St. Andrews on 9th March, in his 84th year. A special memoir, with portrait, appears in another part of this issue of the Magazine. He was one of the Honorary Vice-Presidents of the Former Pupils' Club. Rev. JOHN GIBB (1848-53), D.D. (Aberd.), Emeritus Professor of Church History, Westminster College, Cambridge, died at Cambridge on 26th April, in his 80th year. After leaving the School he studied at Marischal College and at Heidelberg. From 1863 to 1867 he acted as assistant to another Old Boy of the School, Rev. Dr. GEORGE WISELY,* Presbyterian Minister to the Forces at Malta. In 1868 he became Theological Tutor in the College of the Presbyterian Church of England in London, and nine years later was appointed Professor of New Testament Theology and Ecclesiastical History in the same College, which afterwards

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was removed to Cambridge and was called Westminster College. He was the• author of numerous theological works. Two of his brothers are Sir GEORGE STEGMANN GIBB* and ALEXANDER EASTON GIBB.* WILLIAM MORTIMER (1848-53), M.D., died

at Turriff on 6th March, in his 82nd year. He studied medicine at Aberdeen intermittently from 1855 to 1861, graduating M.D. in the latter year. While a medical student he went a trip as surgeon on board a Greenland whaler. He commenced the practice of his profession in Turriff in 1861, and continued there until the day of his death. He was a pupil of the School under Dr. James Melvin, for whom he always retained great admiration. JOHN WILSON (1850-53), LL.D. (Abdrd.), formerly rector of Banff Academy, died at Banff on 16th March, in his 81st year. He graduated in Arts at Marischal College in 1857, and three years later was appointed schoolmaster of Auchindoir, Aberdeenshire. In 1864 he went to Lhanbryd, Morayshire, in 1869 to Fraserburgh, in 1870 to Insch, Aberdeenshire, and in 1875 he was appointed rector of Banff Academy, in succession to Mr. James Moir, who afterwards became rector of the Aberdeen Grammar School. Dr. Wilson continued to be head of the Banff School until 1901, when he retired. Among his pupils at Auchindoir was Sir W. ROBERTSON NIcoLL,* who contributed to the British Weekly a charming sketch of his old schoolmaster shortly after his death. JOHN BISSET (1861-62), formerly bank agent at Insch, Aberdeenshire, died there on 24th March, aged 70 years. He entered the banking profession as an apprentice in the head office of the Town and County Bank, Aberdeen, and ultimately became agent of the Insch branch of the Bank. He retired in 1900, after nearly 40 years' service. A FORMER MASTER OF THE SCHOOL. ALEXANDER GREEN (1864-66), M.A., died at Aberdeen on 12th March, in his 69th year. After studying at King's College, he opened a proprietary school in Aberdeen in 1871 and conducted it till 1876, when he was invited by the School Board to initiate a Preparatory Department in the Aberdeen Grammar School by transferring his pupils thither. This Department he carried on for five years, after which it was reorganized and its classes brought into the regular School curriculum. Mr. Green continued as head teacher of the " Preparatory or Lower School " till, in 1888, he applied for and obtained the headmastership of Causewayend Public School, Aberdeen. In 1892 he was appointed headmaster of Skene Square Public School and held this post until his retirement in 1912.

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WILLIAM DYACK* (1865-70), Burgh Surveyor of Aberdeen, died at Aberdeen on 8th March, in his 59th year. He served an apprenticeship as civil engineer under Mr. John Willet, C.E., Aberdeen, and later became his chief assistant. After serving on the engineering staff of the Great North of Scotland Railway, he was appointed, in 1884, assistant to Mr. William Boulton, C.E., Burgh Surveyor, Aberdeen, and in 1892 succeeded to Mr. Boulton's post. The most important engineering scheme which he carried out was the reconstruction of the sewerage system of Aberdeen. He was also responsible for the widening of Union Bridge. In his younger days he was a well-known member of the Aberdeenshire Cricket Club, and for a long time was an officer in the Royal Engineers (Volunteers). GEORGE ALEXANDER CRAIB (1872-75) died at Rimpton, Bath, on 6th May. He went to Ceylon in 1877 and engaged for many years in tea-planting there. In 1910 he became administrator of rubber estates in the island of Jugra, F.M. S. MORRICE MACKERETH DUNCAN (1872-76), of Alpha, Orange Free State, died on 6th May, aged 54. He went to South Africa about 1878, and became a landowner in the Orange Free State. Latterly he resided at Alpha, near Ladybrand. GEORGE ANDERSON (1879-80), resident secretary at Aberdeen of the Yorkshire Insurance Company, Ltd., died at Aberdeen on 9th March, aged 54 years. He served as an apprentice in the North of Scotland Bank, Portree, and later became accountant of the Bank at Dufftown. He gave up banking on being appointed resident secretary in Aberdeen of the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Company. He afterwards represented this company successively in Leeds and Newcastle, and eventually transferred his services to the Yorkshire Insurance Company. ANDREW WILSON EDMONSTON (1881-85) died at Stonehaven on 23rd April, in his 45th year. He engaged in farming for some time, and latterly resided in Stonehaven. GEORGE LAURENCE TnomsoN* (1882-86) died at Aberdeen on 8th May, aged 42 years. He entered the service of Messrs. A. King & Co., printers, Aberdeen, in 1889, and when this firm was converted into a limited liability company under the name of The Aberdeen University Press, Limited, in 1900, he became joint-managing director, and in 1911 sole managing director. JAMES AITKEN (1882-87) died at Dunoon on 20th April, in his 41st year. He served a commercial apprenticeship in an Aberdeen office, and latterly was on the staff of the Springburn Labour Exchange, Glasgow.

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on 11th May, aged 37 years. HENRY MARTYN BURNETT (1893-98) died of typhoid fever at Manaos, Brazil, on 12th April, in his 34th year. He joined the Union Bank of Scotland, Aberdeen, as a clerk in 1899 ; the National Bank of India, London, in 1902 ; and the London and Brazilian Bank, Ltd., Para, Brazil, in 1904. Three years later he was appointed assistant accountant to the Para Electric Railways and Lighting Company. From 1909 to 1911 he engaged in the rubber business in Para and in the interior of North Brazil, and thereafter he was employed in the Manaos Harbour, Ltd., Brazil, at first as clerk and latterly as superintendent. He was the youngest son of the late Mr. Alexander G. Burnett of Kemnay. ROBERT HARVEY (1896-99) died at Newcastle on 3rd April, aged 31 years. He was trained as an engineer in the locomotive department of the Great North of Scotland Railway at Kittybrewster and Inverurie. In 1913 he received an appointment with the Leeds Forge Company, Ltd., Leeds, where he was engaged in steel coach construction. ALEXANDER BREBNER* (1897-1900) died at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on 7th May, aged 31. For six years he was in the service of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Aberdeen, and thereafter was for over two years an inspector with the Life Association of Scotland, Dundee. In 1910 he went to Canada and engaged in the lumber business at Cabano, Quebec, for two years, and at Vancouver for one year. From 1913 he was office manager of the lumber business of Fraser, Limited, at their head office at Fredericton, New Brunswick. TATTEE CHEER (1910-12) died at Aberdeen on 31st May, aged 25 years. He was a medical student at Aberdeen University.

The School Garden. The flora of the Garden has recently been enriched by two handsome donations of plants, one from Mrs. R. M. Williamson, Rubislaw Den South, and another from Miss Davidson, Beaconsfield Place. Altogether nearly sixty species and varieties have been received, including several kinds of saxifrages and many other rock plants. For these it is hoped a suitable home may be prepared by the extension and improvement of the rock-work already in the Garden.

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Sir James Donaldson. " Next to the Grammar School stood the convent of the Blackfriars, founded early in the thirteenth century by Alexander II., dedicated to Saint John the Baptist."—Book of Bon-Accord, p. 125.

The death of Principal Sir James Donaldson, of St. Andrews, removes one of our outstanding Old Boys, and calls for more than a mere obituary notice in the Magazine. I have been intimately acquainted with him since 1882, and in one sense the connection dates much earlier, for in 1868, in the first class of the School, we had used his edition of Jacobs' Latin Reader. Sir James had reached the age of 84, and was born in 1831, I believe in Blackfriars Street, near the house where another distinguished alumnus of the School, Walter C. Smith, saw the light. He attended the Grammar School in Classes I.-IV. during the years 1842-6, and I have been told that in the Blackfriars Street Congregational Church, of which the Rev. Dr. John Kennedy was minister, he was held up to others, such as Mr. Kellas Johnstone and the Rev. Dr. P. T. Forsyth, as the Model Boy. To those far-off days he looked back with affectionate memory, and he referred to them in an article he contributed to the first number of the Aberdeen University Review. " Kennedy, minister of Blackfriars Church, had been a student of King's College. He got hold of every young man of ability whom he could attract to himself. He inspired them with a love of literature, and a number of these men exhibited, when at College, remarkable powers of literary work. Two of these were Walter Smith (Olrig Grange) and George MacDonald, who are now known to all the world. With both of these I was associated for some time, though they were about seven years older than I was. I heard George MacDonald deliver his first sermon in the vestry of Blackfriars Street Chapel. Whatever else might have been thought of it, it was a flow of exquisite English and of beautiful thought. It is pleasant to go back to these old times, and it is pleasant for me to record that Dr. Kennedy was the best and wisest friend I had in these early days."

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In the Quater-centenary issue of Alma Mater he described the change from the Grammar School to Marischal College, and his experience of the Bursary Competition. For centuries A the Version alone had been the test at both Colleges. passage for translation from Latin into English had become part of the Competition at King's College in 1847, up to which date such a passage had been previously taken into account only to decide between competitors made equal by the Version test. This innovation had been introduced by Professor George Ferguson, so that both tests counted equally. At Marischal College the change had been made the year before, when Donaldson entered. Greek was introduced at both in 1849. The mention of John Colvin will appeal to many. " We were familiar with every corner of the old Grammar School. It was to us a nice, cosy, small place. But when we passed through the narrow gate in Broad Street and stood in front of Simpson's splendid granite building a chill came over us, and we wondered whether we should ever feel at home in what seemed to us palatial spaces and classrooms and hall. Besides this we had already had experience that matters did not proceed in the same uniform way as under Dr. Melvin. At the Bursary Competition we had for the first time to render a passage in Latin into English, and no instruction had been given us whether we were to translate literally or make good English of it. This was to us a great innovation, for nearly all our labour had been spent on translating English into Latin, and in our reading of Latin prose authors our attention was turned to gathering phrases for our Version from English into Latin. It seemed as if with new buildings we were surrounded by a new atmosphere, and, indeed, by a kind of new world. But the chill was soon dispersed. The kindly sacrist, John Colvin, took us in hand, and put us up to all the ways of the place. Throughout our whole career he was ready to help us, told us about various things that went on within the circle of the professors which it was advantageous for us to know, and kept us out of mischief, or if we did get into mischief, opened up for us the easiest exit. When I returned to Aberdeen as professor after a long absence, John gave me the heartiest welcome, patting me on the back as one of his old boys." He graduated in 1850, and seems to have had a narrow shave for it through some extraordinary qualms of conscience Readers of the Legend of about the graduation oath. Montrose will remember how the old Marischal College oath caused Dugald Dalgetty similar difficulties when in the Spanish service. " I found, in short, that although my being a Protestant might be winked at, in respect that I was a

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man of action, and had more experience than all the Dons in our tertia put together, yet, when in garrison, it was expected that I should go to mass with the regiment. Now, my Lord, as a true Scottish man, and educated at the Mareschal College of Aberdeen, I was bound to uphold the mass to be an act of blinded papistry and utter idolatry, which I was altogether unwilling to homologate by my presence. True it is, that I consulted on the point with a worthy countryman of my own, one Father Fatsides, of the Scottish Convent in Wiirtzburg . . ." Those who remember Longfellow's Vogelweid the Minnesinger, " buried under Wiirtzburg's minster towers," may know this foundation in Bavaria commemorated the old Scottish Saint Kilian. What Dalgetty was told by various casuists may be found in the novel. In Donaldson's case, Professor Cruickshank managed to save the situation. " I was told that before being Capped I had to swear and vow that I would profess the one and only orthodox religion and faith publicly set forth in the Scotch Church, and widely differing from all heresies of papists or of any other persons whatsoever. It was not very clear whether the Latin word meaning ' differing' (longe abhorrentem) agreed with the swearer or the faith. In the oath administered to the graduands of St. Andrews there was no doubt. They had to take an oath that they would remain till their last breath in the profession of the purer religion which had been reformed from all the errors of the papists. I felt that I could not promise to reject all the heresies of everyone whatsoever, or even of the Roman Catholics for all time to come, and I was not sure whether I had not already adopted some of the heresies denounced in the Westminster Confession of Faith, which was the standard of the Scotch Church. Professor Cruickshank took me to a private room in the College, and tried to show me that my scruples were unnecessary, and that the oath was a mere form and that I was quite free to believe anything I liked. I could not see this, and then he told me that it did not matter whether I took the oath or not, that I would get my degree all the same." He speaks very highly in that article of the old Marischal College staff, and deals fully with Blackie in Latin, Robert Brown in Greek, Cruickshank for Mathematics, Gray for Natural Philosophy, Macgillivray for Natural History; and less favourably of Martin and Dewar for Moral Philosophy and Church History. Blackie had studied in Germany under Boeckh, Gerhard, K. 0. Muller, and Bunsen; and to Berlin, no doubt under the advice of Blackie, he proceeded after graduation. I have had at various times to read the works of all four, and I had the Greek Literature of Muller as the

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first prize in the Bajan Class, being impressed by the fact that he was buried at Colonus, near the hill with the nightingales in the well-known chorus of the Oedipus Coloneus. Of Gerhard he speaks highly. " He stands out as perhaps the greatest scholar that applied his energies to show how much light could be thrown on the life of the ancients by an examination and interpretation of vases, statues and other works of art. He knew almost every vase that had been unearthed. And he directed attention to the important information that could be derived from them in regard to the religion of the Greeks, such as on the Eleusinian mysteries and on the whole range of mythology. His book on Greek mythology is an extraordinary accumulation of wellarranged facts, and he has directed the minds of scholars to some regions of inquiry which have been hitherto neglected, but are now beginning to attract attention." My own memory is only a confused chaos of vague impressions derived from George Dennis' great work on the Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, that strange field in which one of the first workers was our famous F.P., Thomas Dempster (1579-1625), in his Etruria Regalis, when he held the Chair of Latin at Bologna, rendered illustrious by his predecessors Manutius, Sigonius, and Robortelli. During his Marischal College course Donaldson acted as one of the editors of the Aberdeen Universities' Magazine in 1849-50, conducted by a joint staff from both the Colleges, and it is curious to reflect that the Grammar School was later associated with other two members, for of the mathematical masters in my time, the Rev. George Macarthur and Mr. Charles Sleigh, the first was secretary and the second was treasurer. The year 1848 during his course stands out yet as one of the great political landmarks in Europe, and such another we shall not see till the close of the present war. France, under Lamartine and General Cavaignac, led the way to the deposition and flight of Louis Philippe. The German Frederick princelings hastened to grant constitutions. William IV. of Prussia, brother of William I., who succeeded in 1861 and became Emperor in 1871, was involved, and the present Junker Constitution was established. Lombardy and Venetia rose in revolt, Hungary declared for independence; the Slavs of Bohemia and Silesia took arms. The swelter ended in the abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand and the accession of his nephew, in his eighteenth year, Francis Joseph, destined to witness his last cataclysm. The Italian exiles crowded home, with Mazzini from London and Garibaldi from Monte Video. The fervour spread to Marischal College, and to show their appreciation of their Continental brethren in their struggles for liberty, Donaldson and other ardent

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spirits came out in " wide-a-wake " hats, the then accepted badge of political disaffection. I believe that up to that time even straw-hats had been viewed with disfavour, being regarded as the mark of Americans or West India planters. The class of 1846-50 maintained an active existence, and he told me that they wrote and acted their own plays and songs. A select band met at Seaton Cottage on the Don, the house of John Forbes White, and discussed freely classical and literary subjects. Blackie was greatly excited by the Continental risings. " In 1848, when the news came that Louis Philippe had to surrender his crown and a French Republic had been established, he came to his class in a state of great excitement, exhibited the pictures of the Illustrated London News to us, expatiated on the reasons for the revolution, and led us to understand that we can never know antiquity properly unless we first know the motives and laws that regulate the movements of our own and other modern states and kingdoms." Donaldson was, on his return, elected Greek Tutor at Edinburgh in 1852, Rector of the Stirling High School in 1854, and of the Edinburgh High School in 1856. In 1855 he had been a candidate for the Rectorship of the Aberdeen Grammar School, when Evans was elected. On the death of Professor Black he succeeded to the Latin Chair in Aberdeen in 1882, leaving for St. Andrews in 1886. Mr. George Middleton, Classical Master in the School, thus refers to his work, in the Arts Class Record of 1881-5 :—" We read with Dr. Donaldson part of Horace's Satires and the whole of Plautus' Rudens. The Professor did not confine himself to the grammatical observations, as was so often the case at that time in the Scotch Universities. His aim was to bring before his students the living reality of the old writers of the past, and he therefore succeeded in making his class thoroughly interesting. I have before me now the notes of the lectures, and have been turning them over in the light of the experience of the last twenty-five years as student and teacher. What strikes one most in them is the fulness and variety of the information. The lecturer is equally at home whether he is discussing literature, or syntax, or Plautine scansion, or telling us about the MSS. in Continental libraries, or dwelling on the value of inscriptions. Here we had an able, broadminded man, and one who, in spite of his learning, was no pedant. Dr. Donaldson was most approachable and humbleminded, and was, I am sure, a universal favourite with the class. Many of my class-fellows will recall what an excellent chairman he made at. our Semi Class supper. I remember walking to the Old Town in his company at the close of that function; he told me my place in the class, and how I bad

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done in my class examination, and had a word of good counsel Dr. Donaldson had a wonderful for my future course. memory for people, and kept himself informed about his old pupils. It was my fortune to be Lecturer in St. Andrews for two years, and I had many opportunities of meeting the venerable Principal, and received much kindness from his hands. I found he had still kept up his old interest in Aberdeen, and he inquired about several of my class-fellows in a way which showed that he had followed their careers." In 1878 he acted as one of the Commissioners of Endowed Institutions in Scotland, and, along with the late Professor Fuller, he reconstructed the curriculum of the Grammar School. He promoted the University Commission of 1889-92, to which he largely contributed. Throughout all his life he retained strongly his Aberdeen ways and traditions. His accent remained clear and defined, really the best accent in the Empire—the negation of all accent and intonation—when associated with all its native purity and vigour. He regarded with aversion all Scottish This point, I snobs, renegades, and affected creatures. believe, has been singled out by Lord Rosebery for special notice of his appearances at the Quincentenary celebrations of St. Andrews, his native accent and tact in effacing himself to bring others forward. He was ever an excellent chairman and after-dinner speaker, in striking contrast with many of his colleagues, who should have been shipped to man German submarines, from their preternatural instinct for the torpedo and sinking everything with which they were associated. Politically, he hoped to live long enough to see the dream of his later years, the restored National Parliament of Scotland in Edinburgh, with the Stone of Destiny, of which we were robbed by that Hun, Edward I., under the Speaker's Chair. His death brings to me the sad reflection that, of the band formed over thirty years ago to promote this object, now within sight and with powerful auxiliaries working at home and in the Colonies, only two remain—myself being one, and the other a distinguished Colonial patriot of the same age as Donaldson. That Parliament, he felt assured, would save the rural schools, in whose defence we embarked so long ago, and would seal for ever the fate of all Departmental. Bureaucracies, which have of late been indulging in wild schemes that can only endanger the prosperity of the Grammar School and the best traditions of the North of Scotland. WM. KEITH LEASE.

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Earliest Impressions. By SAMUEL REID, R.S.W. I have forgotten—if I ever knew—who it was who said that " the mind of a child is wax to receive and bronze to retain," or words to that effect. When one has arrived at an age when one can look back to babyhood along a vista of fifty years or more, one realizes how pat the aphorism is. " We spend our lives realizing from experience the truth of truisms." That also has been said by somebody else. Thinking back towards my own very earliest outlook on life—in the " mid-fifties "—I am agreeably surprised in moments of rumination, and not a little amused, to realize how very vividly I retain the memory of certain earliest impressions, one and all mistaken and distorted and yet logical, with the child's unhesitating reconcilement of the real with the imagined phenomena of his physical and psychical environment. To the child the stars are literally "heaven's lamps." He is acquainted with lamps, in the street and in his own home, and the fact that there should be others hung up in the sky is accepted as a matter of course. It is inevitable that the heavenly bodies—especially the round moon with the man's face in it, and the other moon, the sickle-shaped one—should be amongst the very earliest objects to awaken a child's amused interest. The sun, somehow, comes later into our consciousness. He is hot; he is always somewhere about when it is daytime; but the moon is the earlier familiar friend of the two. Certainly it was so in my own case. I have stared at the moon in crooning content by the hour together—or what seems now to have been so—and I cannot remember regarding the sun qua the sun till a considerably more advanced stage in my mental development. Religion, in a strictly religious household, is certain to exert an influence at a very early period indeed. Family prayers; the marked difference between Sunday and other days; these and such like strike the consciousness of a very young child if he is born, as I was, into a severely Calvinistic family of Scottish-Presbyterian proclivities. The Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress," the Shorter Catechism, the metrical version of the Psalms, and Hymns are the first among the life-influences of such an one, and I cannot remember a time when the words " good" and " naughty" were not associated with vaguely-anticipated supernatural rewards and punishments.

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My first idea of the Supreme Being was one which satisfied me absolutely for quite a long time—as time counts at the age of rapid growth. It must have been coincident with the information acquired from the Shorter Catechism that " God is a spirit." I was walking along the brightly-lighted pavement on a dark winter night (it must have been winter and unusually late for me to be out, for it is my earliest recollection of lighted streets) holding my mother's hand. At the corner of a street there was a chemist's shop with a huge bottle in the window—a bottle of some amber-coloured liquid, brightly lighted from behind by a gas jet and a tin reflector. It was very spleAdid, and I gasped my admiration. " Oh, " Oh, I mother! what is that in that great bottle?" Then I answered. mother my spirit," a suppose it is realized in a flash of unquestioning satisfaction that I knew what God was like, and for long my infantile prayers were addressed to an effulgent being, globular in shape, all aglow with amber light. My idea of the Prince of Evil was derived directly from a woodcut in " The Pilgrim's Progress." Apollion was a very real personage indeed, and I longed to meet him—not face to face, even were I armed as Christian in the picture was with a cross-hilted broadsword with a five-inch-wide blade His tail, his —but from some safe coign of vantage. long threethe and wings, bat-like huge his fangs, enormous pronged fork he flourished were his familiar and unquestioned properties—without which none could be genuine. And he was very large—this was indubitable—and this conviction induced latent scepticism because irreconcilable with maternal warnings that he might be hiding under the bed or lurking in the recesses of a small cupboard sacred to prohibited preserves. Heaven, of course, was above the blue sky. That was The exact locality of "the other place" was obvious. unsatisfyingly indefinite. It was below the surface of the I ground, I knew, but its precise geography was vague. distinctly remember being held in somebody's arms while I watched with deepest interest a party of men digging a well, and wondering what would happen if they dug a little too far and the bottom fell out. But this vagueness as to locality was shortly to be removed and replaced by certain knowledge. One day I was walking with my father in a quiet side street when I noticed a doorway inside which a flight of steps led downwards. Over the door was a board on which was painted a word of three letters. My education was sufficiently advanced to enable me to spell it. " P, I, T, pit. What does ' pit ' mean, father ?" " The bottomless pit my boy, the bottomless pit !"

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was his answer. I was overjoyed. For long afterwards I lost no opportunity for visiting that little door. I used to hang about it in dreadful fascination, peeping down into the darkness—half afraid of being speared by a suddenlyprojected trident—fancying I heard sounds of wailing, and strange cries—which may not have been altogether imaginary if a rehearsal chanced to be in progress. Yet it was that very same door that was, later on, to usher me into a very heaven of undreamed-of delights, when an elder brother, greatly daring, took me to see my first pantomime. The Shorter Catechism bulks largely in my earliest recollections—not pleasantly. The very name was a terror, and its rigid inflexibility of question and answer seemed a veritable maze of thorns for the tender flesh of childhood. I could not grasp the subtle differences between the symptoms attending adoption, justification, sanctification, and effectual calling. I could not then, and I do not now. They were a cause of anger, revolt, and bitter tears. Yet there were purple patches and here and there a bloom upon even that desert's arid cacti. On the nursery wall hung a picture of a stout gentleman in a brilliant crimson robe. I had been told that it represented Cardinal Wolsey, and I have since had reason to believe that it was a reproduction of a painting by Sir John Gilbert—one of the earliest colour supplements issued by the Illustrated London News. About this time also I frequently caught glimpses of a man in a gorgeous scarlet coat, who was a frequent visitor to the kitchen regions, and was supposed I was told he was a corporal. to be the cook's brother. Hence there was one passage in the Catechism which always delighted me, because I understood what was meant. It was something about not doing something " after a corporal and carnal manner." Both had scarlet coats, and both strutted— my mental picture was complete. In the phoneticallydisposed ear of childhood the missing syllable did not count. Near enough was good enough. I once moved triumphantly to the head of my form in consequence of having said that the Ark rested on " a mountain of arrowroot "—only to be ignominiously reduced to my former low estate when requested to repeat the information distinctly for the benefit of the class. Another vividly-realized mental picture was associated with the words " intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind." These never failed to invoke the vision of a portly and bumptious personage, falling down a flight of steps into a dark cellar, where he had no business to be. The metrical psalms and hymns were fruitful of these ingenuous misunderstandings. A very fresh and vivid

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picture which I can recall clearly to this day, is associated with this verse from Psalm lxxxiv. " Who passing thorough Baca's vale, Therein do dig up wells, Also the rain that falleth down The pools with water fills."

I was wending homewards along a country lane on the way back from school, where no doubt I had repeated the words with little understanding. On the roadway opposite a cottage stood a baker's cart, on the top of which was a tray containing loaves. It was raining, and the deep wheel-ruts on the road were full of water. A lad, the driver of the cart, was prone on his chest drinking from a spring by the wayside. Here was the very thing I had been reading about —the thorough baker! the pools of water! the rain falling down! The picture has remained with me ever since— sharply defined as a landscape by Creswick. Another such tableau vivant—no less real, had its origin in the words of a favourite hymn. I can still call up at will the two bears —a very large bear and a very small cub—wandering paw in paw along the margin of a canal. This scene had a tragic sequel. The cub has fallen into the water—the mother is distractedly wringing her paws on the bank. The words of the hymn were:— "Can a mother's tender care Wander from the child she bare?"

the child she bear being, of course, the cub. The tragic dkottement was no doubt suggested by the succeeding line :— " Yes, she may forgetful be,"

A canal ran near our house, and we had been warned of its danger—hence the landscape background. I return to the bottomless pit and the fearful joys of my first pantomime. It was on that occasion that I first grasped the knowledge that women had legs and walked with them just as men did—a surprising revelation. This was owing to the prevalent fashion of enormous crinoline. The ladies of my acquaintance—my mother, my aunts, and sundry visitors —all seemed to float about on a balloon-like base of voluminous flounces and frills. I never suspected that they just walked. Of course I might have noticed that little girls had legs and feet, but somehow it had not come within my knowledge that girls were undeveloped women. I thought of them only as boys who wore long hair, were inquisitive and spiteful, and easily made cry. In a scene of dazzling splendour a number of ladies in short, saucer-shaped skirts bounded on to the

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stage of the gas-lit and orange-scented little theatre. I asked my brother " What are these? " and he said " Fairies." I knew this was not so—fairies were tiny creatures, and lived in flowers and such like. So I said " Oh no ! they are grownup ladies. But what are those white things they walk about on? " My brother seemed puzzled at the question, but he replied, " Of course their legs." Then I grasped a great truth. I would fain dwell on the gorgeous memory of that pantomime—the clown—the pantaloon—how I laughed, to the verge of physical injury, at the row of smiling, big, silly When the Baron bashed faces of the Baron's retainers. them with an inflated bladder without producing the slightest change of expression on their grotesque features I nearly died. This was no bottomless pit of torment—this must be much more like the other place—the place good boys went to! If any dire punishment followed that daring escapade I have forgotten it. Anyhow it was worth every risk incurred. It must have been some little time after this that Tennyson's " Locksley Hall " was read in my hearing. When the words, " Thou art mated to a clown," were read I gloated over my secret knowledge that I understood the situation fully. Of course the lady had got united to a husband who would make butter slides before the door and enjoy seeing her fall on them, meanwhile embroiling himself with a policeman in an altercation involving a string of sausages. But I had little pity for the faithless Amy. I have mentioned crinoline. It looms largely through the misty memories of those early years. The ;first time I was taken to church I was led—one on each hand—between my mother and an aunt. The church had a long, narrow aisle with closed-in pews on either side, and from the moment I entered the door till I emerged, purple faced and gasping, in the family pew, I was invisible—blind and smothered in the bulging abundance of a pair of voluminous dresses of flounced silk. With the ability to spell out words came the joy of reading the names on shop signs and door posts. I am unable to explain why, but this was a source of endless delight at this period of my existence. Possibly the odd combinations and suggestions of the grotesque and unexpected appealed to my latent sense of humour. The names over a certain baker's shop, Mustard and Kindness, were a fount of perennial joy. The latter name was justified and endeared for ever in my memory by an action on the part of the lady of the shop. Once she presented me with a shortbread cake " gratis and for nothing." " Oh, thank you, Mrs. Mustard and Kindness!" was my grateful acknowledgment.

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Another shop-sign name was the means of introducing to me a dear and valued friend—a friend whose loss I have never ceased to deplore. The owner of the establishment was one Alexander Runcie, and he was a purveyor of something to H.M. the Queen. As an outward and visible sign of this honour he had erected above the door of his shop the carved figure of an animal, very fine and large, rampant, gilded, splendid, with one long corkscrew horn in the middle of its forehead. Just underneath this stately effigy came in bold, gilded letters the signboard with his name, A. RUNCIE. Every day as I passed on my way to school I looked up in admiration at the noble beast. When, long afterwards, I learned that I was labouring under a mistake—that the name of the animal was really a unicorn—I was bitterly disappointed. It did not seem nearly so appropriate a name, and for long I mourned the elimination from the fauna of my dreams of my revered old friend the Runcie. Shops, especially the lighted shop windows of the long winter evenings, enter largely into the memories of those years. All fairyland, all the wealth of all the worlds that are or ever were, was in those shop windows. Oh, for Aladdin's ring or the goose that laid one oval nugget per diem, that one might revel in their stores ! From infancy I had a sweet tooth—an abnormal fondness for sweets—or was it abnormal 7 Anyhow, the longing was acute and persistent, and was looked upon by my parents as a distinct outcrop of original sin. Sugar was dear, and strictly guarded—jam a rare and precious condiment. Sweets, the commonest, sold at one penny an ounce. Yet once I was so deceived and ensnared by the superior allurements of Romance as to spend a whole sixpence—which The might have been invested in toffee—to see a giant. giant was a fraud—a gigantic fraud: I have never forgiven him to this hour. The town was billed with his name, So-and-so, the great Russian giant. I forget his name, but it was sufficiently barbaric and suggestive. In a fever of delighted expectancy I parted with my sixpence at the door and entered a large, bare hall, to find myself in the presence of half a dozen ordinary people and a big man in a frock coat, thick-soled boots, and a high hat. He was a tall man certainly—eight or nine feet perhaps, but not—not the thirty or forty feet I had expected him to be. And he just walked about and did nothing. That a giant !—no fangs ! no saucer eyes! no top boots ! no club! no bag of hasty pudding even ! —oh cruel deception ! It was a wronged and outraged child who made his tearful exit from that fraudulent show.

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Beneath the Southern Cross. I am afraid that some of us, with the geographical lessons of our school-days only a memory—sometimes a painful memory—must plead guilty to considerable ignorance regarding Australia. We know a good deal about Canada and the United States—especially about Canada, which in these days is becoming a real Nova Scotia—but not so much about the United States of Australia. How many of us can describe the country, say how far Melbourne is from Sydney, Brisbane from Adelaide, or mention, off-hand, the principal rivers and chief mountains? We are far removed, of course, from the days in which the old woman in an English village thought the Australians were black and was in great distress because her son had married an Australian girl, or the days in which a Lord Chancellor of England declared, in answer to a question, that South Australia was " somewhere near Botany Bay," but even yet we do not know so much as we ought to do about our great Southern Dominion. Distance is an obstacle to fuller knowledge; the voyage from London to Sydney takes six weeks. The exorbitant cable rates are another hindrance: the cost makes it impossible for newspapers at home to give a really good and adequate news service from Australia: and vice-versa the Australian papers are in the same difficulty as regards their supply of news from the homeland. That difficulty, it is to be hoped in the interests of the Empire, will be surmounted in course of time. To take one point regarding which some of us have perhaps a hazy idea, viz., the size of Australia. The visitor to its shores is absolutely staggered by the vast extent of the country. Iri the maps of the world Australia figures merely as a large island down in the right-hand corner with nothing very imposing about it; and we are consequently a trifle sceptical when the returned traveller tells us something about the enormous area of this island-continent. I am not going to bother unduly with figures, but shall just mention that . Australia comprises 3,000,000 square miles ; that it is 25 times as large as the United Kingdom; 14 times as large as Germany and 15 times as large as France; and that it is larger than the whole of the United States. I travelled a good deal in Queensland, and Queensland itself is six times larger than the United Kingdom and three times larger than Germany—you could drop Germany, big as it is, into Queensland, and lose it. And when you remember that Queensland is one only out of six States in the Australian Commonwealth —and not the largest State at that—you have some idea of the vast size of Australia. Melbourne is as far from Sydney

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as Aberdeen is from London, and from Melbourne to Brisbane is further than from Land's End to John o' Groats. An old friend of mine, who has been settled in Australia for many years, told me a rather amusing story regarding the ignorance of Australia. When he was leaving home for the first time, he happened to call upon an old woman who had a son in Australia. " Aye, so ye're gaun to Australia," she said, " and ye'll be seeing oor Jamie. Jist tell him we're a' weel, and he ocht to write aftner to his auld mither." When my friend landed in Australia, he was in Queensland and " Jamie " was in Western Australia, a little matter of 2,500 miles away, so the message was never delivered—at least, personally. He has never seen " Jamie " to this day, and, in all probability, never will. ABOUT THE NATIVES. The visitor to Australia sees very little of the original inhabitants and possessors of the country—I mean the aboriginals. The natives are decreasing in number as the white man occupies their country, just as the Red Indians are dying out in North America; but in Queensland and the Northern and Central Territories they are still to be found. I saw a few in Queensland, and some at a native settlement at La Perouse, near Sydney, but the latter are semi-civilised, and some of them are half-castes. I asked one native whether he would throw the boomerang for me, and he replied in broken English that it was rather too windy, but that if I came with him to a sheltered hollow, he would try what he could do, so I went with him into the woods. He threw the boomerang with a skimming action into the air, but the wind was too strong, and the missile failed to come back. Then he altered the direction of its flight, and made a fine After the boomerang had gone a considerable throw. distance, twisting and turning, it came back right to his feet ; and to show that this wasn't a fluke, he did the same on three different occasions. The blacks, in their wild state, are a primitive lot. They toil not, neither do they spin; they certainly take no thought for the morrow ; and so long as they have one meal they don't They are bother about where the other is coming from. wonderful trackers—as good as any Indian that Fenimore Cooper ever described—and the cleverest white man is an amateur compared with them. Old settlers have many curious They will track stories as to their ability in this direction. a sheep by its marks, which are quite invisible to the eye of a white man, and follow it for miles. If horses are lost, they can tell the marks made by the hoofs of each horse. " That is old Bob," or " That is Jimmy," they will tell the settler. An Australian sheep farmer told me that upon one occasion

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he came upon a camp of blacks in a state of great commotion. The men were running about, and the old " gins," i.e., the old women, were sitting in a circle wailing. Riding up to ascertain the cause of all this trouble, he found that a little native boy, a great favourite in the camp, had gone amissing, and that the trackers could find no trace of him. An expert tracker, named " Old Billee," had been sent for, and he arrived just as my friend had ridden up. " Old Billee " circled round the camp several times, found a clue at last, and set slowly out, followed by the natives, whom, however, he kept at a certain distance behind him. My friend, who knew " Old Billee," rode up to him and asked him to show how he was following the track taken by the missing boy. " Old Billee " showed him a tiny twig which had been cracked by the boy's foot, further on some blades of grass which had been pressed down, and still further on the mark of the boy's toe—all these marks being invisible to my friend, who, for a white man, reckoned himself a clever tracker. At last the old native led them to a creek, and in one of the waterholes the body of the poor little boy was found among the weeds. The blacks have a clever way of catching wild ducks. A net several feet high is stretched across a stream, one end being held by a native in hiding. The women and children go up and drive the ducks down the stream towards the net. Just before they reach it, a black throws his boomerang, which circles above the flock like a hawk, and he imitates the hawk's cry. The ducks come down through fear and drive into the net. The black in hiding drops his end of the net, and the birds are caught in the meshes. Their method of obtaining fire is by rubbing sticks. My friend described the natives as peaceful and inoffensive when kindly treated. Unfortunately, when they come in contact with the white man, they not infrequently copy his vices, particularly drinking, and if they live in houses and wear European clothes, they are liable to consumption, so that their final extinction is, unhappily, only a question of time. THE HEATHER AND THE HEBRIDES.

" How very like the home folks" is the involuntary thought of the visitor as he watches the passing crowds in Collins Street or Pitt Street. In appearance, the inhabitants of the Australian cities do not differ materially from those in cities of the same size in this country. The Melbourne and Sydney business man is as alert and well-dressed as the Manchester or Birmingham man. The Australians come largely from the pure British stock, there is not the infusion of foreign blood that enters the United States, and con-

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sequently they are more like the home people than any other branch of the Anglo-Saxon race. It is this fact that makes the visitor feel that he is not in a strange land. Once there, he finds it difficult to realise that he is 12,000 miles from England, for he is among a people speaking his own language, living largely as he does—if we except some changes due to the climate—following the same course of amusements and sports, and so on; while everyone he meets has some tie or other with the homeland. Australians always talk of England or Scotland as " home," and it is their one great ambition to make the trip at some time or other. The older emigrants love to hear about the old country, though they may not have seen it for many long and weary years. " From the lone shieling on the misty island Mountains divide them and a waste of seas, But still their hearts are true, their hearts are Highland, And they in dreams behold the Hebrides."

I had an instance of this while travelling in Central Queensland. Incidentally I may remark that in an Australian train there is not that freezing coldness of manner and conversation which sometimes chills the railway carriage in this country. The Australian is free and easy, and you are not many seconds in his company before he has plunged into conversation. But to return to my Queensland experience. I had gone into the smoking saloon, and there met a tough, hard-bitten, old Colonial. "You'll be from the old country," he said in an accent which was still as Highland as a peat. I admitted it, and he shook hands warmly. "And from what part, may I ask?" " Scotland," I said. Another handshake, increasing in warmth. " And from what part of Scotland ?" " Inverness-shire," I replied. Another handshake, more vigorous still. " And what might your name be now ?" I told him my name, which has a distinctly Highland flavour. " Well, well," he said, " and mine's John McLeod, from Barra," and he shook my hand again as if he were a milkman at a pump-handle. " Isn't it a grand thing," he went on, " for two Highlanders to meet like this out in the middle of Queensland? Aren't we a great race? Who's like us anyhow ?" And there was more shaking of the hand, till I began to feel like the American President after a White House reception. But I was as pleased to meet John McLeod, and to get his Highland welcome, as he was to meet me. He had been for more than 40 years in Australia, but still his heart warmed to the heather and to the Hebrides. In the Botanical Gardens in Brisbane I met a gardener who asked me if I knew Holburn Street, Aberdeen, because that was where he used to live ! An Australian lady, who was

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in Aberdeen only a few weeks ago, told me that she had just sent a sprig of heather from the battlefield of Culloden to an old woman of 78 in New South Wales, who played on the battlefield as a flaxen-haired child seventy years ago. One may imagine the delight of the old body on receiving it. There are many such people in Australia, whose thoughts turn wistfully from the scorched plains to some Highland glen with its birch woods and foaming burns. VISIT TO A GOLD MINE. When in Queensland I had the opportunity of visiting a gold mine—the Mount Morgan mine—one of the largest in the world. It is a wonderful concern, and since the formation of the company 29 years ago, it has paid over £4,000,000 in wages, salaries, and contracts, and distributed over £8,000,000 in dividends to the shareholders. The mining there, as in all the modern gold-fields, is carried on on a scientific basis, with an abundance of machinery and crushing and smelting appliances. There are underground works 1000 feet deep in Mount Morgan, black as jet underground, but all lit with electricity : and huge excavations into the side of the mountain like a deep quarry at home. The Big Cut, as it is called, is 300 feet deep, and we descended to the bottom by the steepest of paths and ladders and passing through tunnels. We saw a great mechanical shovel at work which digs into the stones and ore, lifts about two tons at a time, and deposits it in waiting trucks—a really marvellous machine. There were tunnels in different directions, with trains constantly running about, and the whole mine was one huge hive of industry. Of course, a modern mine like that is very different from the crude method of working in the old days, when each miner simply " staked " a claim and worked his own little lot. There were stirring scenes when gold was first discovered in the " 'fifties," and many interesting stories of these times are still told to-day throughout Australia. The gold fever seized all alike ; rich and poor—the gold-fields drew them like a magnet. In Melbourne and Sydney business men threw up their businesses, clerks deserted their stools, policemen deserted their beats, sailors fled from their ships, workmen abandoned their jobs—all to pour helter-skelter to the El Dorado, where fortunes were to be made in a day. And their flight was not to be wondered at. Stories reached the cities of men making £4 a day ; one party of six men made £400 in ten days ; and a similar party £500 in a fortnight. But what raised the excitement to boiling point was the discovery of a nugget 106 lbs. in weight, which was worth upwards of £4,000. A native herding sheep saw a gleam of gold in a block of quartz, struck it with his tomahawk, and ran and told his master.

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The white man kept the gold; the black got as reward two flocks of sheep, two horses, and a team of bullocks and provisions—which he no doubt valued more than all the gold one could have given him! It was the discovery of gold which, as one writer says, " precipitated Australia into manhood," for it added, not thousands, but hundreds of thousands, to The entire population of the population in ten years. Australia in 1851 was under half a million ; by 1861 it exceeded a million and a half. AUSTRALIANS AS TEA DRINKERS. The Australians, I think, must be among the greatest tea-drinkers in the world. For those who are addicted to tea, the country is a perfect Paradise. It is tea, tea, tea, from morning till night. You start with a cup at 7 in the morning, which is brought to your bedroom both in private houses and in hotels; the custom prevails even in the smallest country hotels. Then there is tea in the forenoon ; between 11 and 12 the tea-shops of Melbourne and Sydney are crowded. Tea makes its appearance at lunch as a matter of course, afternoon tea follows naturally, and again at dinner the teapot figures on the table ; and if you want more in the evening, it is always ready. The visitor finds this continual tea-drinking a trifle strange at first, but whether it is owing to the climate or not, he soon succumbs to its fascination, and likes it as much as the Australian does. Every tramp in the Bush carries his " billy," or tin, in which he boils his tea when he camps at sundown, and strong black stuff it is, in which a spoon can almost stand upright. A " billy picnic is one of the greatest delights of out-door life in Australia. A merry party meets together provided with all the necessaries for a day in the country, and the " billy " is always to the front. In some convenient spot beneath the lofty gum-trees or beautiful fern-trees a fire is lit, the " billy " is put on to boil, and cup after cup of stronger tea than we would venture to drink in our drawing-rooms at home is quaffed in the glorious sunshine. Up country in the Bush there is a good reason for all this tea-drinking. The water in the creeks and streams is often none of the best, but when The Australian boiled for tea it proves quite harmless roughriders who served in the South African War suffered less from enteric than their British comrades, and their immunity from the disease which carried off so many of our soldiers was attributed to their practice of drinking tea when thirsty instead of the tainted water near the camps. The teapot ought to find a place of honour in the Australian coat of arms and on the Australian flag.

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A LAND OF TOPSY-TURVY. Australia is a land of puzzling and delightful contrasts to the visitor. It is a kingdom of topsy-turvy. In a diary written by an uncle of mine who went to Australia 60 years ago, I came across the following :— " Australia has been called a country of contrarieties—contrarieties not only in point of climate, but in Nature also. The swans are black: the eagles white: cherries grow with the stones outside, and deliciouslooking pears are solid wood: bees have no stings, and flowers, for the most part, no smell: birds do not sing: animals have pockets in which they stow away their young: some quadrupeds have duck's bills: owls screech in the day-time, and cuckoos sing by night, with a variety of other contrarieties which convey the idea of nature turned topsy-turvy." That description, if not altogether accurate in every detail, gives an idea of the curious nature of the world under our feet. The seasons, for instance, as we all know, are the reverse of those in this country. The middle of summer in Australia falls in January, and mid-winter in July. The Christmas roast-beef and plum-pudding are consumed in blazing tropical sunshine. Australian time is the exact opposite of British time, the British day being the Australian The longest day in Britain is the shortest day in night. Australia. The further North you go there, the hotter it becomes, and the further South the colder ; so that Australia may well be described as the land of topsy-turvy. D. A. MCGILLIVRAY.

The School Museum. The Rector desires to make grateful acknowledgment of the following donations :— From Mrs. Stephen Paterson, Aberdeen, sixteen pieces of native Brazilian pottery, vases, cups, etc. From L. D. Horne, F. P., an Indian tom-tom, from the Himalayas, made of two human crania, curiously carved, and covered with green vellum (also human 1).

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The Book of Bon-Accord. "Confer Aberdoniam, Thetis hanc servilibus undis Alluit, urbs famulo nec procul illa mari est."

—Arthur Johnston (1632).

" Silver City by the sea, Whose white foot rests on golden sands."

—William Forsyth.

It is really time that a new edition of two books should be undertaken. As a memorial of this war and as a link with the Auld Ally, the Franco-Scottish Society should project on a really international scale Francisque Michel's essential work : Les Ecossais en France, les Francais en Ecosse, Paris, 2 vols., 1863. Everything truly relevant is in that work, but illustrations and fresh material should be given, though it is enough to give Scotsmen serious thoughts to reflect that Haggis (Fr. hachis) and Tartan (Fr. tiretaine, through the Spanish) are not indigenous, but importations from France. The other book calling for new presentation is The Book of Bon-Accord, by Joseph Robertson, issued in 1839. If Lord Rosebery is right in saying that Lord Cockburn's Memorials of His Time (1856) is a work that should be read every year as a religious duty by every good Scotsman, what need be said of Robertson's book? What Aberdonian can do without it? Yet we fear that in the present generation, reared on flabby and colourless Royal Readers, and dieted on Henry VIII. and his wives, the Wars of the Roses, Marlborough's campaigns and the tributaries of the Danube, the local knowledge of the city is not what it should be. The Spalding Club should take in hand a new edition, and spare no expense with maps, plans, portraits, and additions of value up to date. No doubt much has been done since its first appearance, but a mere glance at it will show the great service rendered by the author to his native city. The form of the original was not inviting, the printing and binding are poor, for it was the day of small things, and it was a young man's book. The title page modestly runs: The Book of Bon-Accord; or a Guide to the City of Aberdeen : Aberdeen, Lewis Smith, 66 Broadgate, 1839. It is obvious the book is not a Guide, but a History of great excellence. Lewis Smith's shop was the one to the south and immediately adjoining the demolished gate of Marischal College in Broad Street, where that patriotic burgher of Bon-Accord, to whom the city owes much, had established himself when only eighteen. It was the gather-

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ing place of the local literati, such as John Hill Burton, Robertson and others, and from it appeared The Aberdeen Censor (1825), The Deeside Guide (1829), The Aberdeen Magazine (1831), Dunnottar Castle (1835), and other local works. The printer of Robertson's book was John Davidson in Broad Street, and in the list of Corrections and Additions to the text, under the Bay of Nigg, the author manages to drop a friendly tear: " in a work which issued from his press it may be permitted to record, that near the south-east corner of this quiet cemetery are interred the remains of John Davidson, printer, who died, lamented by all, on the first of March, 1839, in the thirty-ninth year of his age." Joseph Robertson was born in 1811 in the present 37 Woolmanhill, and was educated at the Grammar School and Marischal College. He died in Edinburgh in 1866, and was buried in the Dean Cemetery. In 1853 he was appointed by Lord Aberdeen, curator of the Historical Department of the Edinburgh Register House, having reached the place where his heart had long been, " right there," though it had been " a long way to Tipperary," wasted on editing The Aberdeen Constitutional, The Glasgow Constitutional, and The Edinburgh Evening Courant. He died when at his best, and when works of permanent value would have resulted. As it is, his output is simply phenomenal, and the accuracy of it all is no less. A mere statement by Robertson carries weight. I have read carefully his unpublished Biographia Aberdonensis in three volumes, where the handwriting is beautiful, and the exactness and neatness of arrangement are striking. How he acquired all his knowledge in his short and active life is a problem, for when he worked at such things in Aberdeen there were no learned clubs, no library catalogues, and no assistance to him of any kind at all. All must have been done by himself for himself, and transcripts of rare Raban printing in Aberdeen and elsewhere must have been laboriously made, for most of his material has been unpublished, and existed only in manuscript. Possibly no Aberdonian has ever lived who knew the history of his native city as this man did. He was one of the original founders of the Spalding Club, and to that he contributed a mass of material of the most weighty kind, while he worked also for the Maitland and Bannatyne Clubs. As a learned antiquary, only David Laing, librarian to the Signet Library in Edinburgh, could equal him, and the Aberdonian that has read with attention or worked over his texts must simply be amazed at the extent and variety of Robertson's knowledge of Scottish history and antiquities. If Sheriff Aeneas Mackay was right, and he certainly was, in declaring that no city in Scotland could be compared with Aberdeen in services

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rendered to the national history and its illustration, there is little doubt that the first place must be assigned to Joseph Robertson. If any one needs corroboration of this, let him turn to the tribute paid to him by Burton in the preface to his History of Scotland, and see what that work owes to him. A notice in Grant Duff's Diary, under date Nov. 14, 1862, will show him in his Edinburgh field. " At 1 to-day we went to the Register House, where Mr. Joseph Robertson, the most learned of Scottish antiquaries, was our guide. He showed us the foundation charter, not of Melrose Abbey, which now stands in ruins, but of an older building, which has long since passed away, though the little bit of parchment remains intact, and the writing on it is He showed us also the list of jewels perfectly legible. belonging to Mary Queen of Scots, which he afterwards published. It bears upon it notes, in her own hand, of the names of the persons to whom she desired the jewels to be given, in case both she and her child should die, made just before the birth of James VI. This curious document, with many other of the Scottish Records, was taken to London in the days of Cromwell, and was not sent back to Edinburgh till recent times. These valuable papers were packed in hogsheads, and suffered much from the damp, the stains caused by which, on this particular manuscript, were mistaken by Miss Strickland, according to Robertson, for Queen Mary's tears. " Not less remarkable is the letter of the Scottish nobles to the Pope, saying that they would never submit to English This, perhaps the most curious document in the rule.* One Register House, was as nearly as possible destroyed. of the earls of Haddington, who was Lord Clerk Register, had taken it, with other interesting relics, to his country house. When he died, they were reclaimed by the authorities, and were all sent back by his family, except this one, which could not be found. At length it was discovered in front of a fireplace in a bath-room, the housemaid having been pleased with the long strips of parchment from which the seals depended, and thinking it would make as good a grate We saw, too, many letters of Mary ornament as another. Queen of Scots, and Robertson told us she wrote at first She was not really so learned as has rather a good hand. been said. Her so-called Latin verses are copies of Buchanan, and her French ones are poor." And yet, even unto this day and hour, in Aberdeen there is complete ignorance among the citizens as to the origin • The protest sent by Scotland from the Monastery of Arbroath, April 6, 1320, to Pope John XXII. That "housemaid" should be an object lesson to all, over the aims of a debased faction expending asphyxiating gas in favour of Female Suffrage. (W.K.L.)

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of the city. It is no reproach to Robertson that he was not a Celtic philologer, and that in 1839 such research was impossible. Indeed he makes it fairly clear that the old Harlaw feeling was pretty strong with him, and his references to the Celt are generally hostile and disparaging. To him, as to the man on the street to-day, Aberdeen means the city at the mouth of the Dee, just as Footdee is believed to represent the obvious situation at the foot of the Dee. Robertson completely exploded the last delusion, and all that it implies. Let us hear him how he sketches what he believed to be the funs et origo of his native town. " Let the reader fancy the summit of the Castle Hill, or of the elevation named after St. Katherine, to be surrounded by two or more concentric ditches, and ramparts of earth and stone, with a rudely-defended gate, and with a half-cleared path leading down the entrance. Let him suppose the enclosed and fortified area to be studded with a few squalid hovels built of turf, mud, and boughs, and to be thronged with flocks of cattle, and groups of half-naked and painted savages, armed with bows and arrows pointed with flint, with stone hatchets, with lung and ponderous swords, tall spears, and hide-bound shields. Let him figure a small creek in the estuary of the Dee, with a number of slender skin-covered skiffs or currarks lying on the shore. Let him imagine the surrounding country to be occupied by mighty forests of oak and pine, the recesses of which give shelter to the boar and wolf, while their open glades and pastures are covered with herds of deer and wild cattle, and he will have drawn no unfaithful picture of the chief city of the North of Scotland as it existed seventeen hundred years ago. . . . The first buildings of Aberdeen were probably a few rude dwellings situated on the shores of the Dee, in the neighbourhood of the spot where the Trinity Church now stands. Here William the Lion seems to have resided about the year 1180; and here, thirty years later, he founded a monastery of Red Friars— an establishment which probably added considerably to the prosperity of the infant burgh. The ground next occupied was, perhaps, that sheltered by the walls of the Castle, and it may be conjectured that the town was gradually extended in the direction of the Shiprow, the Exchequer Row, and the south side of the Castlegate. But for a long time its limits appear to have been confined to the vicinity of the Green." He adds that the Green (vicus viridis) was in being in 1273; the Castlegate (virus castri), the Gallowgate (virus furcarum) existed before 1350. In 1382 the Upperkirkgate and the Netherkirkgate appear; about 1400 the Quay, and the Shiprow (vicus navium). In 1450 the Guestrow is noticed,

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the vicus lemurum, or street of the " ghaists " or goblins, as he showed, with reference to the dead in the churchyard of St. Nicholas. This is undoubtedly correct for the city of Aberdeen, and we may consider the position of the early Aberdonian on the Castle Hill and Broad Hill was not altogether so picturesque in winter as the fanciful portraits drawn by imaginative Town Councillors, when they propose Beach improvements with Bungalow Hotels on the Broad Hill, " looking out on the grey sand dunes, looking out on the cold North Sea." But language shows that• there was an earlier day, and that the real origin of the city of Aberdeen, is authoritatively fixed elsewhere. Aberdeen, in spite of the apparent last syllable, means the city, not at the mouth of the Dee, but of the Don. The patron Saint Nicholas, the saint of sailors, is late, and points to a recent expansion of trade, post Norman in period. The earliest traces of the city and the Celtic saints all show the original nucleus is to be found not by the Castle Hill, but practically where the Church of St. Machar stands. A Gael entering the city makes no mistake as to its geographical meaning. He knows where to look. Obair-Dheathain, with th silent, means the mouth of the Don, and is a witness to the primeval day when the Don entered the sea near the Dee, as William Forsyth says: "The Don (loon by the Braidhill ran, The tide weish up the Castle Brae, And whaur lang miles o' pier wark stan' A half a score o' birlings lay."

It was only in 1727 that the present cut of the Don, straight to the sea, was made, under the advice of Dr. James Gregory, the mediciner of King's College, for previous to that date it had flowed over the Links till it reached the south end of Cunningairehill. To hard facts of language all fanciful theories of the meaning of the word Aberdeen must yield. There is such a science as phonetics. Ewen Maclachlan, the old Rector of the Old Town Grammar School, then located in the ground floor of the present Town House in High Street, and best Gaelic scholar of his time, knew that it did not and could not mean the mouth of the Dee, and he sought for the meaning in the fact of the two rivers meeting, a sort of Interamna, a "vale of Avoca where the waters meet," AberDa-abhuinn, but this is impossible to modern science. In the Book of Deer it is Abberdeon, and in the Norse Sagas it is Apardion. The Don is the Celtic Diviina, and it was known to the Latin poet Ausonius as the Celtic name of the river Goddess of his native Bourdeaux

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The old charters of David I. that speak of Old Aberdeen may or may not be genuine, but they preserve the genuine fact and consciousness. Robertson repeats the statement in Kennedy's Annals, that, in 1336, under Edward III., the citizens opposed the English in the Green, when the town was laid in ashes. " It is said," Robertson adds, " that when the city was afterwards rebuilt, it received the name of New Aberdeen, a title which has frequently led strangers to suppose that the original site of the town was in the burgh now called Old Aberdeen, but originally named Old Town, or Kirktown of Seaton." In the first class of the Grammar School in 1868 Dr. Beverly assured us all this was the case. But it is totally erroneous. The Old Town, the Villa Vetus of charters, is the real fons et origo, lost in the mists of antiquity, of existing Bon-Accord. Robertson quotes Dr. James Gregory (1804), for an expression of Aberdeen feeling : " I am a Scotsman good, having the unspeakable advantage of being born in the center of the city of Aberdeen. My dear countrymen, the Aberdonians, have been long known to be very sharp folks, so sharp that it has been estimated that if their attornies (whom they sometimes call advocates, sometimes proctors, sometimes solicitors) were allowed to practise in London, they would, in seven years, have the fee simple of the whole county of Middlesex.* As far as I can judge, their medical gentlemen are as sharp in their way, as their attornies can be for their hearts." But, as a native of the Villa Vetus, I believe it is time to explode the Dee theory, which no trained philologer can now hold. It totally distorts the unbroken continuity of the city and fatally corrupts the true development of its story. All the idle talk about Devine and Aberdeen is a confusion of the real facts about the DivZina and accurate philological science. Robertson's preface shows that the original aim of the writer was humble, and the printing resources small. " At first little was contemplated beyond a brief compilation from the histories of the Brave Town already published; but the author had not gone far when he was satisfied that many sources of information had been imperfectly examined by his predecessors, or were altogether unknown to them. As he proceeded in the pleasant labour of availing himself of these new or reflected lights, he saw reason gradually to enlarge his design; other interesting or important documents were from time to time discovered . . . in the Second Volume, the other portions of the Burgh, the Old Town, and the Suburbs, will be described . . . an attempt will be made to ex'The author of this historic gibe is given in Sir Walter Scott's Diary, March 14 1826, as Patrick, Lord Elibank. (W.B.L.)

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hibit a view of the moral, religious, political, and commercial condition of the City. . . . If the sheets now published be favourably received, the concluding part will be issued probably at the end of a twelvemonth. It remains only to confess that the publisher (Lewis Smith) is nowise to blame Indeed, for the delay in the appearance of this volume. but for him, it would perhaps have never seen the light." Vol. II. never appeared, though I. is bold on the back of the book. Another Aberdonian, the late Mr. Alexander Kemlo, advocate and F.P., grappled with the task, and resolutely worked through the entire file of the Aberdeen Journal from its first issue on Jan. 5, 1748. Then he got lost in the material. He made sweeping reductions, but the pile swamped him. In truth it only shows the merit of Robertson's performance, and that the task is one not for an individual, but a Royal Commission. One little memorial of the old Rector of the Grammar School, David Wedderburn, the lament for George Jamesone, the painter, who died in 1644 at Edinburgh, and was buried in the Greyfriars Churchyard there—the broadsheet of Raban, the first Aberdeen printer— Mr. Kemlo had, and sent to me, from South Africa, a transcript. It is here reproduced for the first time:— Lachryne. "Gentis Apollo sum fuit ut Buchananus, Apelles Solus eras Patrice sic, Jamesone, tute. Rara avis in nostris oris. Tibi mine colores, Ora tibi soli pingere viva datum. At Te nulls manus potent sat pingere ; nempe Lampada cui tradas nulla reports manus. Quin si forte tuas vatum quis carmine laudes Tentet, id ingenii vim superabit opus. Quicquid erit, salve pictorum gloria, salve, Aeternumque vale Phosphore Scotigenam : Phosphore, namque tua ars tenebris prius obsita Necis, Fors nitidum cornet Te prweunte diem. Tumulus ejuadem. Conditur hic tumulo Jamesonus Pictor, et una Cum Domino jacet hic Ars quoque tecta suo. Hujus ni renovent cineres Phoenicia Apellem, Inque urns hac coeant Ortus et Interitus. Ej2mclem Encomium meritissimum. Si pietas prudens, pia si prudentia, vitae Si probitas, omni si sine labe fides ; Partaque si graphic) Magnatum gratis, dotes Nobilis ingenii siquid honoris habent ; Si nitor, in pretio est morum cultusque decori, Et tenuem prompts srepe levasse manu ; Aemula si Belgis Italisve peritia dextrae Artifici laudem conciliare queat, Omne tulit punctum Iamesonus Zeuxe vel ipso Teste vel hoc majus Grcia siquid habet. Amoris indissolubilis ergo. DAVID WEDDERDUHN.

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Robertson's modest volume had not his name. Yet the 379 pages are of rare value, and were offered to his native city with a happy quotation from Richard Verstegan's (1634) Restitution of Decayed Intelligence:— " Accept, therefore, Brave City, in good worth Thy praise not with dispraise to others wrought, Thy elder glory here againe set forth, Which Time could shadow but not bring to nought : And though not graced rightly as it ought, Yet will thy kind acceptance salve the sore, And make me studious how to please thee more."

Robertson's portrait is in the Mitchell Hall window of But a Marischal College, and his book is his memorial. really great reproduction of The Book of Bon-Accord, " graced rightly as it ought," is imperatively called for. WM. KEITH LEASK.

A Relic for the School. A special interest attaches to the stone seat recently placed in the School Garden, as it formerly belonged to Dr. James Melvin, who was Rector of the Grammar School from 1826 to 1853. This seat, we are told on good authority, originally stood in the garden of Dr. Melvin's father,who was a tradesman in the city and occupied a house in the Gallowgate. Later it was removed to Dr. Melvin's own garden in Belmont Street, where it remained for many years in close proximity to the scene of the famous Rector's labours in Schoolhill. On the demolition of the house in Belmont Street about sixteen years ago, the seat was again moved, this time to 10 Loanhead Terrace. And now, after a temporary sojourn in Messrs. Gall and Walker's yard in Rose Street, it has found another and, we hope, a permanent home. The seat has been placed in the part of the Garden nearest the School, and can be well seen from the main approach. It consists of a heavy, horizontal slab of granite, over 5 inches thick, and nearly 5 feet long. On this rests a curved back of three pieces, also of granite. In Melvin's time support was given by two boulders, which are now replaced by shaped blocks. In spite of this the structure retains a quaint appearance, and is evidently no product of modern mason craft. The exact age of the seat cannot be stated, but it may be a hundred years or more. In any case it is a distinct addition to the relics of bygone times already in the possession of the School, and we gratefully acknowledge the kindness of Mr. Gall in pre senting it.

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The Former Pupils' Club. Annual Report for Year Ending isth April, '915. The members of the Executive remaining in Aberdeen have decided not to call the Annual Meeting at this time, in view of the fact that a very large proportion of the members of the Club are serving with His Majesty's Forces, and that it would therefore be impossible to obtain a representative meeting. They also consider that the calling of the meeting at this time would incur needless expense. They propose to carry on the work of the Club until the termination of the War, and, thereafter, to call a Special General Meeting. They have pleasure in submitting the 23rd Annual Report of the Club, which will come before this Special Meeting. As will have been seen from the School Muster Roll published in the last two numbers of the Magazine, some 635 Former Pupils are known to be now serving their country, and every day the number is being increased. This is a record of which the Former Pupils may well be proud. It is gratifying that, notwithstanding the many difficulties that have arisen, chiefly as a result of the numerous changes of addresses, the membership has been well maintained, but a larger proportion of the subscriptions than usual is as yet unpaid. The number of members in the Register is 1,435, as compared with 1,419 last year. The success of the Club is due mainly to the Magazine, and the production of it is dependent, to a certain extent, on the finances of the Club. No doubt those members who are in arrears for the past year will send their subscriptions as early as possible, along with those for the present year, and so assist in keeping the Club, not only alive, but active and prosperous. During the year the Club has lost a considerable number of members by death. These include the President, Mr. James Esslemont, one of the Vice-Presidents, Sir James Donaldson, and two who have already been mentioned in the Magazine as having fallen in the service of their country. The Magazine has this year, perhaps more than ever in the past, fulfilled its object, if one may judge from the many letters of appreciation which have been received from " somewhere." Members at home and abroad, whether on active service or not, are reminded once more that notes, articles, or letters are always welcome for publication. Bricks cannot be made without straw, and the Magazine cannot be produced unless suitable material is provided. Communica-

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tions with reference to the Magazine should be sent to the Convener of the Editorial Committee, Mr. Theodore Watt, M.A., Rosemount Press, Aberdeen, or to the Secretary of the Club, Mr. James W. Milne, C.A., 154 Union Street, Aberdeen. Owing to the War, it has been considered advisable to postpone the publication of the " Roll of Pupils, 1813-1913," which in the ordinary course of events would have been issued by this time. It will be published shortly after the termination of the War, and to it there will be added the School Muster Roll in as complete a form as possible. No winter programme of the Club was arranged, and the Athletic Sections have been dormant, as practically all their members have either enlisted or received commissions. Those at present away from Aberdeen will find on their return that great progress has been made with the Recreation Ground, and that a splendid field is being provided. If for no other reason, the year now closed will be memorable for the success of the effort to obtain a suitable ground for the School and the Club. With the aid of its own donation of £250, the Club has carried out its arrangement with the Aberdeen School Board to provide £1,000 towards the purchase of the ground, but the total sum of £1,500 has to be raised in order to equip the ground thoroughly. This is not the time for personal canvassing, but if there are any members who can see their way to give subscriptions now, these, however small, will be gladly received, and acknowledged in the Magazine. The Club as usual presented medals to the best English, Science, and Mathematical Scholars at the School, and, in addition, the All-Round Trophy, presented to the School by the Club, was awarded for the first time. The Financial Statement. Notwithstanding the adverse circumstances in which the Club has been carried on during the year, the funds of the Club have been well maintained. The Treasurer's accounts, after having been duly audited, show that the balance at the beginning of the financial year amounted to £761 16s. 50., of which sum £541 14s. 6d. was capital. The revenue amounts to £259 Os. 4d., and the expenditure to £464 ls. 9d. (including the donation of £250 to the Recreation Ground), leaving a total balance of £556 15s. 00., of which the sum of £342 1 ls 6d. is capital, £121 ls. 9d. is at the credit of the Byron Statue Fund, £22 is. 11d, is at the credit of the " Roll of Old Boys " scheme, and £16 Os. 2d. is at the credit of the London Section.

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These funds are invested to the extent of £250 in 4 per cent. Debenture Stock of the 1st Scottish Northern Investment Trust Limited, £100 on Deposit Receipt with the Aberdeen Trust Company, Limited, and the balance on Deposit Receipt with the North of Scotland and Town and County Bank, Limited, in the Aberdeen Savings Bank, and in the London and Aberdeen Treasurers' hands. The sum at the credit of capital does not now fully represent the total of all life members' subscriptions, along with all subscriptions paid in advance, but it must be remembered that, in addition to liquid assets, the Club has now valuable rights in the Recreation Ground. The surplus revenue for the year is £2 6s. lid., and the accrued surplus revenue amounts to £54 19s. 8d.

List of New Members. Life Members. The following have become Life Members of the Club since the last issue of the Magazine :— Naughton Dunn (1891-1902), M.D., 2 Calthrope Road, Five Ways, Birmingham. Alexander W. Christie (1877-87), Huntly. William A. Watson (1898-1901), M.B., 38 St. Stephen's Road, Norwich. William Arthur C. Lothian (1892.1904), M.A., B.Sc., I.C.S., India. Alfred Alexander Black (1882-84), Victoria Mills Co., Ltd., Cawnpore, India. Lindsay Lyall Shepherd (1900-07), Royal Garrison Artillery, Aberdeen.

Ordinary Members. The following have become Ordinary Members of the Club since the last issue of the Magazine :— Rev. John Morrison (1902-03), M.A., B.D., "A" Company, 8th (Service) Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, Inverness. Rev. William Beveridge (1875.80), M.A., U.F. Manse, New Deer. John Douglas Taggart (1906.14), Ashley Lodge, Great Western Road, Aberdeen. Cyril E. Hopkins (131314), 58 Ashley Road, Aberdeen. Lessel M. Davidson (19M-14), 22 Forest Road, Aberdeen. Alexander R. Rennie (1913-14), 72 Burns Road, Aberdeen. Gordon Ogilvie (1910-14), 119 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen. William T. B. Joss (1909.14), 26 Loanhead Terrace, Aberdeen.

John C. Anderson, (1909-14), North Loirston, Nigg. Lawrence Jaffray (1909.14), U.F.C. Manse, Blackburn, Kinellar. Alexander Seymour Jameson (1908.12), 91 Crown Street, Aberdeen. George Douglas Rose (1902-11), 16 Rubislaw Terrace, Aberdeen. Stephenson Brown (1910.13), 2 Queen's Road, Aberdeen. Norman D. Brown (1910.14), 2 Queen's Road, Aberdeen. George M. F. Foggo (1880.86), Heilatroon, Zastron, District Knoxville, Cape Province, South Africa.

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ABERDEEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL FORMER PUPILS' CLUB.

Abstract of Revenue and Expenditure Account for Year ending 15th April 1915. EXPENDITURE.

REVENUE. I. Cash in hand and Invested Funds at 16th April 1 91 4 £761 i6 54 II. SubscriptionsLife Members— Admitted during year - £54 I2 0 Ordinary Members— Arrears recovered - 14 0 0 Subscriptions paid in advance during year - 18 5 0 Subscriptions paid during 84 7 6 1 91 4-1 5 1 71 4 6 III. Miscellaneous— - - £3 3 0 Hire of Stage Fittings Interest - 23 5 5 Discount 5 19 9 Roll of Old Boys Scheme - o io 6 Byron Statue Fund—Interest 3 7 6 36 6 2 £969 -

I. Development Scheme I Roll of Old Boys Scheme III. Magazine IV. Donation to Recreation Ground V. Miscellaneous Expenditure VI. Working Expenses VII. Cash in hand and Invested Funds Applicable asfollows :— £342 II 6 Capital Roll of Old Boys Scheme 22 I 1 I Byron Statue Fund 121 I 9 London Section 16 o

.42 I 1

£501 1 5

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3 12 3 6 87 17 2 250 0 0 7 16 3 52 3 it 556 45 o4

52 13 64 2 6

£556 15 of £969 7 14

ABERDEEN, 2151 April 1915.—We have examined the foregoing Revenue and Expenditure Account for year ending 15th April 1915, compared same with the vouchers, and found it correct. (Signed) BOWER & SMITH, C.A., Auditors.

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The Recreation Ground. To the List of Subscriptions published in previous numbers of the Magazine, the following have to be added :— Sir James S. Meston, K.C.S.I., Allababad, India - £5 5 0 Professor William L. Davidson, LL.D., 8 Queen's Gardens, Aberdeen - 3 0 0 John Livingstone, Hudson's Bay Company, Canada - 2 0 0 W. Bisset Allan, 5 Halkyn Avenue, Liverpool - 1 1 0 Charles Michie, Lochans, Cults 1 1 0 Naughton Dunn, M.D., Birmingham - 1 1 0 A. Forbes Milne, Taygrove, Dundee - 1 1 0 J. B. Ronald, Uplands, Woodcote Road, Wallington, Surrey 1 1 0 W. G. Melvin, A.M.I.C.E., Howrah, India - 1 0 0 J. W. Taylor, 264 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen - 0 10 0 Robert Y. Hunter, Temora, Cults - 0 10 0 J. C. Taylor, c/o Messrs. Jardine Mathieson & Co., Shanghai 0 10 0 Sums under 10s. 0 7 6 £18

7 6

Further donations, large or small, will be gladly received by the Treasurer, Mr. James W. Milne, C.A., 154 Union Street, Aberdeen. An excellent suggestion has been made that the Recreation Ground should be associated in some way with the memory of Old Boys who have fallen fighting for their Country.

Club Office=Bearers. Hon. President—H. F. MORLAND SIMPSON, M.A., LLD. President— Vice-President—CHARLES WATT ( 1894-98). Secretary and Treasurer— JAMES WM. MILNE, C.A., 46A Union Street.

Assistant Secretary— STODART M. CHRYSTALL, M.A., B.L., 21 Bridge Street, Aberdeen.

Committee. WM. AITKEN. W. G. CRAIGEN, M.A., LL.B. ALEX. DAVIDSON. CHAS. J. DAVIDSON, M.A., B.L. J. B. GILLIES, B.L.

TALBERT HELMRICH. A. M. JOHNSTON. WM. K. LEASK, M.A. GEO. A. LEDINGHAM. D. R. MACDONALD. A. G. NICOL SMITH.

H. EDGAR SMITH, M.A., M.B. THEODORE WATT, M.A. E. W. WATT, M.A. D. H. W. WILLIAMSON, M.A.

NOTICE.—Articles, letters, notes, verses, photographs. etc., intended for the October, 1915, issue of the "Magazine" should be sent, not later than 30th September, to Mr. Theodore Watt, 10 Moray Place, Aberdeen.

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