From Our Own Correspondent, Edinburgh, May 25.
The visit of the Crown Prince of Japan to Scotland passed off without a hitch, was indeed a great success, The crowds that gathered at every point of his progress gave him a cordial if not a damone trative welcome. The easy courtesy of his manner—much freer than was anticipated—left a favourable impression. It wae quickly noted that he did not show too much "Oriental imperturbability," that in some ways he had imbibed the note of Western modernity. Ff gentle manners and easily polite, with a soft voice and a winsome smile, he won his way unerringly in the midst of an alien people and strange surroundings. And what pleased his Scottish hosts greatly was his display of frank enjoyment of everything he saw and heard.
Tue Prince anp Scorrise Customs.
National and even loca] peculiarities attracted the attention of the Prince. It was evident that he could enjoy the quaintness of. our Scottish customs. At the banquet becom given by the Corporation of Edinburgh, for instance, a couple of Highland pipers marched round the tables, and the Princa exhibited quite a youthful appreciation of the parade. When the sound of the pipes was again heard in the ante-roo™, he craned forward expectantly, watched the Highlanders enter, and followed them with the eye and ear as they went round the chamber.
At the close of the banquet, the Lord Provost explained that it was customary to wind up such gatherings with the singing of "Auld Long Syne." Count Chinda explained the Lord Provost's remarks to the Prince, who seemed greatly amused, and entered with spirit into the observance, joining hands with the Lord Provost and Count Chinda, smiling good-humouredly at the old Scottish observance.
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