Messrs. Harland and Woolf have received from the P. & O. orders for three passenger liners for their Indian and Australian services. Of the vessels two will be 570 ft. in length, and the third will be 500 ft. It has been arranged that all three will be built in the firm's Greenock yard. This contract is the largest of a mercantile shipbuilding character which has been placed with one firm since before the war.
OUR MANGLED SCOTS SPEECH, The Presbytery of Glasgow hag lately called attention to the question of Irish immigration to Scot land. While it is desirable that the subject should be considered im a broadminded and tolerant spirit, one aspect of the question cannot fail to cause regret to all patriotic Scots. The-speech of our industrial, populatil is undergoing a distinct and unpleasant change. The homely Doric of our forefathers is tending to give place to a Scottish-Irish patois which retains thd beauties of neither tongue, and grates upon the ears of Scot and Trishman alike. Qnly in the more remote agricultural districts do we now find "braid Scots" a living speech. Our old Scots tongue is a thing of beauty, with a literature of its own of which we are justly proud. It contains many pithy and expressive words which find no adequate equivalent in English. It would be a thousand) pities if this ancient speech should give place to an ugly hybrid dialect.
LYRICS OF THE LINKS, The three cardinal virtue of|- golf A head that does not jerk or With eye not prone to gang A nerve impassible and cool, Unruffjed as.a Woodland poo! And in the heart and on the lip, The spirit of true sportsmanship.
A Golfer's lines to a ball Little sphere from, out the tissue peepiuy, White as snows that on tall summits fic, Fickle chance confines you to my keeping, We to-day are playmates, you and I, Soon your glossy surface geometric, May be seamed by some unsightly seat For your beauty, sleek, smooth, and symmetric, Pitiless, my polished dubs must mar.
From "Lyrics of the Links," by Francis Bowler Keene.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.