I hear that Mr, R. B, Cunning-hame-Graham has just completed a new book-biography of his adventurous 38th century ancestor, Graham of Gartmore, whose name has best been Kept, alive, perhaps by his ballad. "It doughty deeds my lady please." As long ago ai 1886 Mr, Cunninghame-Graham sat 'a3 a Labour member for one of the Lanarkshire divisions, but has long since given up politics. Even in these days he was the perfect hidalgo—Conrad Inter christ him "Don Roberto"—and_ hi mining constituents gasped when he faced them for the first time, immaculate and debonair, I member his appearance at a great demonstration in Glasgow in honour of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain—it was early in the eighties He had to propose a vote of thanks, and when he rose he struck an attitude, twirled his moustache, and said, gentleman, T shall be brief but tedious." "The meeting _shrieked with delight, and not another word of his speech was heard,
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