The Crown Prince of Japan will stay at Holyrood House during his visit to Edinburgh,—there is something delightfully incongruous this Imperial visitor from the Far East lodging in the grim home of our ancient Scottish Kings. Later, the Crown Prince will occupy Braemay, and it is expected that he will also be the guest of the Duke of Atholl at Blair Atholl.
Mary Queen oF Scots.
The Fox Film Company _have-already received 5,000 replies to their appeal for a girl resembling Mary Queen of Scots. There is, by the way, an illustrious lady still living who in her youth was said to bear a strong likeness to the greatest of Scottish heroines. This is Queen Alexandra, who is a direct descendant of the Scottish Queen through the daughter of James 1.
A Kitarnock Burns ror £505, A copy of the first edition of Burns' poems, printed at Kilmarnock in 1786, was sold in Edinburgh for £505; and the original manuscript of the ballad beginning Does Haughty 1 Invasion Threat?" realized
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.