The Duke of Atholl announces that the scheme for the erection of a shrine on the Castle Rock of Edinburgh, as a Scottish National War Memorial, is now an assured success. Subscriptions are still requested, but the money necessary for the erection of the shrine and the remodelling of several of the other buildings has been "practically raised." e plan was severely criticized at the outset, notably by Lord Rosebery, but the great mass of Scottish opinion was strongly in its favour. The famous old Castle, on its picturesque situation in the centre of Edinburgh, is out of date as military barracks, and is, on the other hand, an ideal site for a memorial to the Scottish sailors and soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the Great War.
The shrine will be octagonal in plan, and seven of the sides will contain large stained glass windows. In the bay opposite the entrance there will be no window, but a recessed arch of considerable depth and of lofty proportions. In this recess will be a group of sculpture in bronze, consisting of eddiers and sailors, with bowed heads,. bearing one of their comrades on a bier. There will be a number of sculptured emblematical figures in other parts of the shrine. From the centre of the floor of the shrine will emerge an outcrop of the Castle Rock, and placed on this will be the Golden Book, containing the names of 100,000 of Scotland's sons whose bones lie scattered half over the world, and in whose memory
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