Not only in the great world of fashions Dut in all classes of society, intense interest is displayed in the coming marriage of the Duke of Norfolk. The Earl Marshal has been a widower now for sixteen year and his devotion tot his mentally afflicted son was well known. The death of the.. Earl of Arundel has now left him childless; and apart from any other motive for his second marriage he may well cherish the hope of yet having a son to succeed him. The prospective bride, the Hon. Gwen-dolan Maxwell, belongs to a family as famous for its devotion to the Roman Catholic Church as the Duke's, and her mother was a Howard of one of the junior branches. Her father was one of 'a family of fifteen children, and five of his sisters were nuns. She is heiress to her father's old Scottish barony of Herries, a fact which marks a peculiar difference between the law of succession to ancient peerages in England and in Scotland. As she has a younger sister, the two would, if the old title were English, have equal rights in it, and the title would remain in abeyance until the line of one or other sister became os tinct, or until the King exercised hi Favour of one of the joint heirs." Under prerogative to terminate the abeyance in
the old Scottish custom, however, the eldest daughter, in default of sons, succeeds as matter of right.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.