On the personal side, white, cor ing their respective temperaments, Carlyle and his wife were—during this period of their history nit least—a most loving and devoted pair, it is curious that those who write about them seem to feel con strained to take up a position of partisanship towards the one or the other. Mr. Wilson is certainly not partisan' of Mrs: Carlyle. "He is)
tas he says husband took place, it was manifest that] Clanship, as it originally obtained in Jour country, was doomed.
'The, elective principle, on which true Clanship ever rested, had in many eases gone by the board long: lbctore the Lordship of the Isles was, abolished. Fgudal forms and form-flaries were" everywhere at work, corrupting and destroying' the sys: tem of aristocratic democracy on which Celtic rule and governance built up: The wholesale: sequestration of the Clan lands, and the accession to power of Chiefs who lowed their appointments, not to elections, but to the fact that they were in possession' of extensive landed estates, meant, and brought Jabout, the complete ruin of the Clan system.
There was little true Clanship laxisting in Scotland by the time the ising of 1745 was set on foot. Nevertheless the old Clan sentiment, survived and Clanship, stripped of political power, developed, or Yather degenerated, into a purely social stitution, retaining, indeed, many' of the externals of the original from which it was derived, but meaning-ess and not alittle absurd and trivial }s0 far as the actualities of modern Jexistence are concerned. But, fortunately, that phase of Clanship is
social meaning and purpose of this tending to pass away; the, true Janeient but by no means essentially Celtic institution -are slowly but surely gaining recognition on the part of those who are able to pene-rate below the surface of things, and to. distinguish between the vivialities and theatricalities of modern Clanship and its potential, if not its positive, uses and virtues. For there can be no doubt whatever [that Clanship, rightly understood and properly practised, would be of considerable social service to modern Tt was politically insufbut socially it is rich in the social appetite and sense, in love of family and home, in regard for service. done in behalf of kith and kin, The survival of Clanship in Scotland jand its appearance in so vigorous a form in America, prove that there in something in this venerable 'nstitution which is congenial to peopl Jof Scottish blood; and that widespread sentiment should be availed jof in order to draw Scotland and Amerien yet closer to gether.
"As Ithers See Us' has just returned to the Dominion atiace, Nesbitt, Ko, who [much should not be made of-this, for four own Olympic Champion, Eric' Liddell, seems to defy all the canons, and yet has made history. Possibly his success may upset the theorists land cause them further to examin Tt may be that ab-g will again be found, inadequate, as it was when the Late Freddy Tait disproved his father's! Jsomewhat abstruse computation the length to which a golf ball could be driven by going out next and exceeding the Professor's "scientific" distance. Liddell's [greatness is unquestionable, and his ease the usual phrase may be reversed—his defects seem to have qualities.
At the moment he is the most popvley runner in Great Britain and with admiration is combined a sort lof affection, for, as a personality, he Jappeals to all. If, as is stated, he intends to retire from the track at the end of the season, there will be universal regret, but'a general re-[cognition that aman must put first those things which to him are primary. Liddell, unlike many of tess repute, sees ' athletics in their proper perspective to the more serious affairs of life and in this respect his influence has been fine. Te is stated with some authority, Piso, that Liddell will not play' Rugby in the ensuing season, and that Edinburgh University and the Scottish Fitteen "will lose his ser-
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