all Musical Point Elucidated To the Editor of the "Nomnt-Cutwa Daruy News"
Stm—According to Reuter's tele gram in today's issue of your paper the ceremony of opening the Empire Exhibition was begun with the Seottush alr "Ye Gates, Lift Up Your Heads On High" to the tune of St, George's, Edinburg. Your morning ary, "The Shanghai Times," goes one hotier in describing this "ale" as "the well-known Scottish song."
For the information of your non-Scottish readers, "Ye Gates, Lift Up: Your Heads On High" is neither a Scottish alr nor yet a well-known Scottish song, but is a metrical version of verses 7-10 of Psalm 24 as contained in the Scottish Metrical Psalter which has been in continuous use in Scoltish public worship since it frst appeared in 1050. The tune "St. George's, Andrew M. Thomson (1778-1851), famous precentor and choir-master of the church from which the tune derives its name, It has always been a favourite in Scotland, Incidentally, the site of the Exhibition, is Bellahouston. Park, not Bella Houston Park as Reuter gives the telegram, Scor. Shanghai, May 4,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.