influenced in his work by the style of the great Scottish portrait painter. Though he did not attain to the eminence of Raeburn, he nevertheless held an honourable place as a portrait painter, and has left many excellent portraits of the men and women of his day, notable for good colour and breadth of treatment. He is represented in the National Gallery of Scotland by his portraits of Archibald Skirving, the miniature painter and painter of portraits in crayons, and of Benjamin West, the second President of the Royal Academy. This latter portrait is regarded as one of Watson's most brilliant achievements. After 1808 he was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and, on account of the favourable reception his works were accorded there, he was invited to London in 1815, where he painted the portrait of West just referred to, of the Dean of Canterbury, and of Lord and Lady Combermere. He died in Edinburgh, 24th August, 1837. -"Scotsman."

HOUSE OF BUCCLEUCH.

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CHTREDUS FILIUS SCOTT lived in 1130, and was father of Richard, who is said to have had two sonsRichard, ancestor of the Scotts of Buccleuch, and Sir Michael, ancestor of the Scotts of Balweary. From Richard, the eldest son, descended Sir Richard, who married the heiress of Murthockstone, and died 1320, leaving a son Michael, father of two sons, Robert and Walter of Syn

ton.

Robert's great-grandson was Sir Walter, who had two sous-Sir David of Branxholm and Alexander of Howpaisley. Sir David had two sons-David, whose great-great-grandson, Sir Walter, was created Baron Scott of Buccleuch, 1606; and Robert, ancestor of the Scotts of Scotstarvit.

The first Lord Scott died 1611, and was succeeded by his son Walter, who was created Earl of Buccleuch, 1619. The Earl was succeeded by his son Francis, second Earl, who died, 1651, leaving two daughters-Mary, Countess of Buccleuch (who married Walter Scott of Highchester, created Earl of Tarvis for life), and on her death, without issue, the title went to her sister Anne, Countess of Buccleuch (who married James, Duke of Monmouth, natural son of King Charles II.). On their marriage they were created Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, 1673.

The Duke of Monmouth was beheaded in 1685, when his English titles were forfeited. He left two sons, James, styled Earl of Dal

keith, and Henry, created Earl of Deloraine, 1706, whose line ended with the fourth Earl, James, Earl of Dalkeith, dying in his father's life time, his son Francis became second Duke of Buccleuch, who was succeeded by his grandson Henry, third Duke, who also succeeded to the Dukedom of Queensberry. The third Duke left two sons, the younger, Henry, succeeded to the barony of Montague, the elder, Charles, became fourth Duke: His grandson is William, sixth and present Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, whose brother, Henry John, was created Baron Montagu of Beaulien, 1885.

ANCESTOR OF THE NAPIERS.

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We now return to Alexander of Howpaisley. His descendant in the eighth degree was Francis of Thirlestane, who was created Baronet, 1666. He was succeeded by his son, Sir William, second Baronet, who assumed the name of Napier on his marriage with Elizabeth, Mistress of Napier. His present representative is Francis, ninth Lord Napier and Ettrick.

Walter Scott of Synton (mentioned above) was ancestor of Walter of Harden, whose grandson Walter, third of Harden, had two sons. The younger, Hugh, was ancestor of the Scotts of Gala; the elder, Walter, was the father of Sir William, fifth of Harden, who had a number of sons. The eldest, William, died without issue; the second, Sir Gideon, was father of Walter, Earl of Tarvas, abovenamed, whose great-grandson by his second marriage, Hugh, succeeded to the barony of Polwarth, and is now represented by Walter Hugh, Baron Polwarth. William, fifth of Harden, burn, who left two sons. is now represented by Walter Scott of Raeburn; the younger son, Walter, was greatgrandfather of Sir Walter Scott.

The third son of Sir was Walter of RaeThe elder, William,

There now remains to be described the family of Balweary. Sir Michael Scott was great-grandfather of another Sir Michael, who was known as "The Wizard." His descendant, Sir William, was taken prisoner at Flodden, 1513, and was succeeded by his son, Sir William of Balweary, who died leaving two sons. From the elder, another Sir William, descended David Scott, who succeeded to the baronetcy of his aunt's husband, James Sibbald, and his grandson is the present Sir Francis David Sibbald Scott, Bart., of Dunninald. The younger son Andrew was greatgrandfather of John Scott of of Kirkstyle, created a baronet 1761, whose descendant is the present Sir William Monteath Scott, Bart., of Ancrum.-W. J. S. in "Weekly Scotsman.'

PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO MUNGO PARK AND RICHARD LANDER.

HAT most eminent Borderer, Mungo Park, has never yet been appreciated at his true worth by the world at large, but the following

shows that the name and fame of our great African pioneer is to be brought prominently before the present generation:-Earl Curzon of Kedleston, president of the Royal Geographical Society; Sir George Taubman

fitting that a similar memorial should be erected on the banks of the Niger to the two great explorers who, between them, traced its course from Bamaku, not far from its source, to its mouth on the Atlantic. This duty is specially incumbent on Great Britain, not only because Mungo Park and Richard Lander were British subjects, but also because the most valuable part of the Niger basin has since been brought within the British Empire. A committee has been formed for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the two explorers. Both of them have, indeed, been thus honoured in their native towns of Selkirk and Truro, but no record of any kind

Goldie, late president, African Society; and the Earl of Scarborough, Chairman, Niger Company, have issued an appeal in which they say:-During the last thirty years, public attention has been often drawn to the numerous administrators, soldiers, travellers, scientists and others, who had taken prominent parts in the partition and development of Africa, but there is a danger of earlier pioneer explorers being allowed to pass into oblivion. A suitable memorial has, however, been erected recently on the spot where David Livingstone breathed his last, and it seems

exists in the land to which their lives were consecrated and sacrificed. As the main object of their travels was to discover where the Niger joined the ocean, the most suitable site would seem to be its principal ocean port. It is, therefore, proposed to erect an obelisk of similar design and dimensions to Cleopatra's Needle, on a projecting point of land at Forcados, where it would both attract general attention and serve as a landmark to vessels approaching the port. The total cost is estimated at £2000, exclusive of the foundations, which it is understood will be undertaken by the Government of Southern Nigeria. The hon. treasurer is Dr J. Scott Keltie, 1 Savile Row, London, W.

THE BORDER BOOKCASE.

DICTIONARY OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. All true lovers of Scott must often have longed for some ready book of reference by which they could, at a moment's notice, localise any particular one of the enormous number of characters mentioned in the Novels, and at the same time have their memory refreshed by notes sufficiently clear to call up the particular character required. This want was recently supplied by the well-known London publishers, Messrs George Routledge & Sons, when they issued a handsome volume bearing the above title. The type is clear, the paper good, and the price, 8/6 net, is low when the value of the work is taken into consideration. The author was the late Miss Margaret F. A. Husband, B.A., but unfortunately she never saw the completion of her great labour of love, as death called her home before its publication. The volume was seen through the press by her sister, Miss Christina Husband, who collaborated with her during the whole time she was engaged on the Dictionary. In compiling the Dictionary the author used no printed matter beyond the Novels themselves and ordinary books of reference for accurate historical data. For example, regarding "Castle Dangerous" she took the facts from Barbour's Bruce in the original Early English (see p. 271 of the Dictionary-note under Walton, Sir John de). She attached considerable importance to the Table preceding the Dictionary, believing that for the first time a chronological list of the whole Novels was thus presented. To illustrate the widespread notice which the Dictionary has obtained we quote below a review from the Cape Times" of 16th August, 1911:—

"The feeling that comes uppermost to a genuine lover of Scott, when he chances on a book like this, is apt to be one of impatience. A dictionary in the linguistic sense one can understand and appreciate, even if the burden of reference be a weariness to the spirit. If you desire to read a book in a certain language, you must have a dictionary in order to ensure clear and distinct ideas of the meaning of unfamiliar words. But if you are a lover of Scott, you have read Scott not once but many times; and what, then, is the use of a dictionary? On the other hand, if you are not a lover of Scott, a dictionary is not likely to cure this unhappy defect in your mental disposition. Miss Husband's volume for we are given to understand that this diligent person is a Miss, once a vice-principal in the Good Hope Seminary in Cape Town-might even cause literary pretenders to quote Scott or to refer to his characters, without ever opening one of his immortal novels, in which case its effect would be positively disastrous instead of beneficial. Yet as one turns over the leaves of Miss Husband's book, even the bare catalogue of characters, displaced though they be from their wondrous setting, awakes SO many memories of delightful hours spent with the great wizard of romance, that these uncomfortable questionings are Soon quieted, and the book is placed on the shelf alongside the long line of masterpieces with a grateful sense that so much evidence of loving study deserves the honour. No fewer than 2836 characters are comprised in the dictionary, and these include 37 horses and 33 dogs. The creator of Rory Bean, the Laird of Dumbiedikes, Highland Pegasus' and of Bevis

and Roswal, would have appreciated this kindly attention to the horses and the dogs. And what a summary of genius this bald statement of 2836 characters amounts to, when one remembers the masterly fashion in which the vast majority of them are sketched in. It need only be added that the compiler's selection of extracts for the identification and description of the various characters is always carefully and judiciously made."

We trust that the Dictionary will find its way into many Border libraries, and to further this desired end we quote the following biographical note from the " Galloway Gazette ":

Ex-pupils and friends of the late Mr Jas. W. Husband, Wigtown, will learn with regret of the death of his youngest daughter. Miss Margaret F. A. Husband gained a Hannahfield bursary in the year 1881 from her father's school, and attended the Queen Street Institution for Girls. She studied for the four years, 1887 to 1891, at University College, London, and thence graduated B.A. at London University with honours in English. After working for some years as an assistant Mistress at Dame Alice Owen's School for Girls, Islington, she went to South Africa in January, 1898, as Vice-Principal of the Good Hope Seminary, Cape Town. Delicate health, however, which had originated in an attack of pleurisy, compelled her to abandon the work of teaching to which she was devoted, and she returned to Scotland in 1901. During the last nine years of her life, literary work engaged her attention; and she wrote "Punctuation : Its Principles and Practice" (London: Routledge & Sons, Ltd.; 1905), her brother, Mr T. F. Husband, M.A., being associated with that work. Her translation of tales from Barbour's Bruce was included last year in M'Dougall & Co.'s series of Historical Primers for Schools. The announcement of a new work from her pen was recently made by Routledge & Sons, consisting of a Dictionary of the Characters in Scott's Waverley Novels, and we understand that the book will be published in due course. Such in brief outline is the life story of a Wigtonian cut off at the age of 44. a record which may well stimulate Galloway school-girls to work steadily in a spirit similar to that which was displayed throughout her life by Margaret F. A. Husband.

AUSTRALIAN APPRECIATION OF
WILL H. OGILVIE.

The continued popularity of everything which comes from the pen of Mr Will H. Ogilvie is a proof that he has struck a true note, and so the following extract from an article which appeared in "Sydney Morning Herald" on 29th July, 1911, will interest many of our readers :

Ogilvie's literary activities divide themselves into three clearly defined periods, each sacred to a separate continent-the first to Australia, the second to America, and the third to Europe. Whatever fresh laurels fall to his lot, we at least claim the first fruits of his literary labours. To his life in the open, his fights with flood-fall and drought, we are indebted for two volumes of verse, and every page is racy of the soil, of the cattle camp, of the drafting yard, of the stock route and the black soil plains. And when his first volumes found their way over the mountains to the limitless West the bushmen knew that here was a man who had lived their life, joyed in their joys, and suffered with them. He gets straight to their hearts when he writes

I have ridden the boundary wires with you,
I have sweated in yard and shed;
I have lighted the red camp-fires with you,
In the dust of a thousand head;
Through the west and the wanton ways of her,
You were always my comrades true;
And from out of the nights and the days of her,
I have woven these songs for you.

"Fair Girls and Gray Horses" is too well known to the average Australian to need more than passing mention. The first third of the volume deals with fair girls, Australian girls, and the loves constant and inconstant of the bush folk. There is rather a devil-may-care levity about some of the verses, with almost a Khayyamic eat-drink-and-bemerry philosophy. But this is redeemed by the true love romances. It is not all the tale of a gallant who kissed and rode away. There are true heart beats in "His Gippsland Girl," and Miles for a Kiss," and numbers of others. how the poet seems most in his element in his equine ballads. You can hear the thud of gal'After the Horses," "The loping horse hoofs in Morning Gallop," and "The Pearl of Them All." And the horseman's love for his steed is evident in 'Darrel" and "St Clair."

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In a realm peculiarly his own, Ogilvie pays tribute to the teamsters of the plains, the carriers who, with large table-top waggons, from the connecting link between the iron horse and the outNear Side back stations. Verses like "The Leader," and "How the Fire Queen Crossed the Swamp." are full of strenuous endeavour, and one can almost hear the tug chains ring in the swamps as the thundering whipstrokes fall.

Ogilvie never liked the cities. His verses teem with references to the free life in the open, contrasted with the sordid and crampled life in the cities. Like the Banjo" we find him sighing for the pleasant places 'where the vine trees kiss the river, and the ranges greet the stars." He is surfeited and stifled with the city's pleasures and restrictions, and we find him crying, "Oh, for ringing cattle and the thunder of their feet."

THE PAGEANT OF THE BRUCE.

Sir George Douglas, Bart., occupies the first place in number one of the BORDER MAGAZINE, and it has been a pleasure to a wide circle of readers to mark his continued progress in the literary world. All true Borderers are deeply indebted to him for keeping alive and increasing the literary traditions of the Borderland. From the "Jedburgh Gazette" we quote the following appreciation of Sir George Douglas's recent book :THE PAGEANT OF THE BRUCE. By Sir George Douglas, Bt. Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons. The Bruce stands out prominently in Scottish history as a hero and a patriot, and it was meet that a pageant of the Bruce should form part of the work of historic representation which the managers have undertaken as an educational feature of the Glasgow Exhibition. In asking Sir George Douglas to write it they were making a safe and judicious selection of an author. They had in him one who is imbued with the true national spirit, a student of history and of human impulses and emotions, an independent thinker, a just critic, and a man who is able to give dramatic form to what he sees in his mind. The pageant is a series of scenes. The first is outside the Minorities' Church, Dumfries, on the day when

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the Red Comyn was slain by the Bruce, and stern Kirkpatrick entered the Church to siccar." The Bruce makes new resolves and takes his place as the leader of his countrymen. The second scene is a dumb show, representing the crowning of Bruce at Scone and the nobles tendering their allegiance. Then amid the environment of Highland loch and mountain the King and Douglas, Lennox, and others of his followers with their men, are discovered bearing the Athol, vestiges of their unsuccessful ventures. "the renegade," as Douglas calls him, makes his submission, craving either pardon or punishment. This is a scene in which the author skilfully suggests the tumultuous passion and prejudice surging beneath the effort to maintain in the King's presence the aspect of fair judgment. Athol is condemned by his peers. The words addressed by the King to Athol, in which he is pardoned and restored, may be quoted for thoughts they contain that are applicable with equal force to our own

time:

Athol. I seek not to defend myself. Bruce. Yet,

potentate

lord,

knew

this-the princely

Whose breath disposes of his subjects' fate-
Supreme below to govern with a nod,
As in the heaven above supreme is God—
This high prerogative by which he reigns
Most dearly purchases with thousand pains
Unknown to meaner men-with labours, woes,
Duties and cares no humbler mortal knows;
To loftiest striving pledged by loftiest place-
A king, the loneliest of the human race.
Know thou this, too: his name and rank august,
Mark'd off for aye from children of the dust
By everlasting memory, praise or blame,
Renown eternal or eternal shame,—
One dearest right have these the captain gem
And gleaming ruby of his diadem-
The gift that does all other gifts embrace,
The noblest, rarest, privilege of grace!

(Movement among the bystanders.)
Shall he not dearly, ay, most dearly, prize
The priceless clemency to exercise?
And when so dearly as when sin most dread
Was wrought against his own anointed head?
For deem not that the royalty we wear
At best for few brief years of toil and care-
A rob moth-fretted, a rust-canker'd ring,
The guise and cognizance that mark the king-
Deem not that these our human hearts can change,
From warm affection of our kind estrange,
Or chill the genial current in our veins :
A true king's man the more because he reigns.
(Rising.)
Athol, stand forth! accept these proffer'd hands-
"Tis the man pleads, 'tis not the king commands-
And know, ere yet their offer thou embrace,
All memory of the past we here erase,
Once and forever. See! my throne is wide-
The throne of Scotland; sit thou by my side,
On my right hand, my some time erring lord,
Malcolm, my friend, my Prodigal Restored!

The Queen and members of the family are introduced, and some fine touches of character drawing are found in the social intercourse that fol lows, before Bruce bids farewell, in words of tender affection, to his wife and relations. In scene four Bruce emerges from a cave on a rocky shore in the island of Arran, and is for the moment despondent over the blood that, so far vainly, has been shed. In the discourse on the situation that

ensues, Bruce tells of the persistency of the spider, which has taught him courage and patience. He will try again.

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Six may be curst, and blessing rest on seven. The order " Now, ho! for Turnberry is given, and the King and his followers set forth on the passage to Carrick's shore. The fifth scene is at Bannockburn, on the summit of the Borestone Hill, where there are a flag-staff, tents, and a camp-fire burning. The date is June 23rd, 1314. Reference to events in the history of the battle that have made the most enduring impression on the people of Scotland are deftly worked into the dialogue and dramatic action. The King, in single combat, slays Henry de Bohun, and his nobles remonstrate with him for having risked his life in this way. Randolph would

Teach prudence and indoctrinate with caution

This our too warlike chief, too dauntless King. Douglas. Such caution as yourself exemplified when you scaled the Castle Rock of Edinburgh and so gave Scotland back her capital.

Edward Bruce. Answer that you but followed the lead of Douglas when he made sudden inroad among the merry-makers of Fastern's E'en and captured Roxburgh.

The Steward. Or took a leaf out of the book of my lord Edward Bruce when he should seize Dundee and Rutherglen.

Bruce. It results that in the matter of weighing risks there is not much to choose between ye! And yet you would pretend to give me lessons in discretion, and the art of preserving a whole skin. Those scars demonstrate your incompetence!

These specimens of chivalric repartee possess real wit, and do no violence to the responsibility that must have weighed upon the warriors on the eve of Bannockburn. King Robert imparts to his nobles in confidence his general plan. The morn of battle is a second part of the fifth scene, and the magnificence of the English camp commands the admiration of the Scottish King and his nobles. Bruce causes the proclamation to be made that any man of the Scottish Army unwilling to face the chances of the day may withdraw, but all remain. The troops are mustered to the music of the pipes, they are addressed by the King, swords are drawn, and Scotland's embattled might goes forth to victory.

Sir George has chosen the occurrences in the life of Bruce that serve most effectively to illus trate his character, the conditions under which he achieved the freedom of Scotland, and the course of his career, and he has presented them in situation and language that are distinct and impressive. Within the moderate limits of the book of the pageants he offers cameo portraits, not only of the hero, but of his chief adherents that are full of interest as the works of a student of history and an artistic man of letters

The Publishers of "The Hawick News" will issue in book form at 3/6 the valuable series of illustrations which created so much interest during their appearance in the "News" as Pictures from the Past." In addition to these, however, Mr J. J. Vernon has, by request, supplied an account of the social and domestic life of the people of Hawick in the days of our grandfathers. As the edition is limited, early application should be made in order to secure a work which is unique in the literary annals of the town.

John crackit his whup, an' drove up the road
Through Buckholmside, past Bristol cot,
Till Caitho Tollhouse cam' in sicht, sae white,
Where mony a dram he'd got

But "mony's the slip 'twixt the cup an' the lip,"
Said a voice that garr'd them heed;
"Provision ye hae for the livin' man,
Hae ye ony for the deid?"

Smash! doon fell the tray, an' the Tollman lay
Among a' the broken glass;

While John drove away sae fast a' day,
Like he'd heard auld Balaam's ass.

Sae Thamson gat in an' safe doon to Leith,
Even quicker than he thocht;

An' then back frae Lunnon he by an' bye cam',
An' John a new whup he brocht.
W. S.