The record-union., 1898-11-13

I Walter had made Scotland" On Mr..
Ruskin's inquiry as to the meaning of
the phrase, Mr.. Gladstone began tell
| ing of the amazing contrast between
| the means of communication in Scot
| land before Sir Walter wrote COM
pared with the present day, mention
ing the number of coaches that were
now conveying masses of happy trip
pers lIp and down the Trossachs. Mr..
Ruskin's face had been deepening with
horror and at last he could bear it no
longer But, my dear sir" he broke
out. that is not making Scotland; it
is unmaking it,"
1t is stated by the "Pall Mall Ga
zette" that the trustees of the late
William Morris, when depositing at the
British Museum the woodcuts and or
naments belonging to the Kelmscott
Press, retained the three fonts of type,
land have begun to issue an as-it-
| -posthumous series of booklets, or
which the address delivered by Morris
to the students of the Birmingham
Municipal School of Art, at the prize
giving, February 81, 1894, is the first
production. This is in the well-known
Svo shape. uniform with "Syr Ysam-
brace s'Sire Degrevaunt," etc, and
similar in binding, except for blue
linen back in place of the brown hoi-
land. 1t contains no initials or orna-
ments. The colophon states that 1t IS
printed at the Chiswick Press. and
published by Messrs. Longmans (at the
price of half a CROWN. Other lectures
will probably be issued in the same
form, and there is talk of cheap ed1-
ton also of Morris romance, the
Sundering Flood" an illustrated edi-
ton of which is included among the
productions of the Kelmscott Press.
Professor Max Muller is preparing
two volumes for publication, one being
entitled Indian Philosophy" and the
other 1.-THE Sayings of Ramah Krish-
ma A third book which is coming
from the press is a new edition of his
German Fragments from the
Papers of an Alien"
According to the Athens correspon-
dent of the Munich "Allegemeine Hel-
tung," the Greek Government has pre-
pared a bill for the establishment OF an
Antiquities -Gendarmerie." The spe-
cial function of this new police will be
the guardianship of the national Greek
antiquities in the interest of the Greek
people, even in places where no exca-
vatIons are at present in progress.
Every man admitted to this corps is to
possess a certain degree of necessary
culture, in order that he may under
stand what is confded to his observa~
tion and protection.
Philadelphia Press: A most remark
able literary coincidence is pointed out
by a writer in Literature" who says
it would be interesting to know If Or.
Conan Doyle before creating Sherlock
Holmes had read a certain anecdote re-
lated by the Jesuit traveller Charlevoix,
who died in 1851. The story is OF a
red Indian from whose wigwam piece
of meat had been stolen, and who
promptly set out in pursuit Of the thief.
He had not proceeded far before he met
with some persons, of whom he inquired
whether they had seen a little old white
man with a short gun, accompanied
by a small dog with a short tail. Asked
how he could thus minutely describe a
man whom he had never seen, the In
dian answered:
"The thief I know is a little man by
his having made a pile of stone to stand
upon in order to reach the venison;
that he is an old man I know by his
short steps, which 1 have traced over
the leaves in the woods, and that he is
white man 1 know by his turning out
his toes when he walks, which an r.
diar never does. His gun I know 10
be short by the mark the muzzle made
in rubbing the bark off the tree on
which it leaned; that his dog is small I
know by his tracks, and that he has a
short tail I discovered by the mark II
made in the dust where he was sit
ting at the time his master was taking
down the meat
This certainly is so much like the
ratiocination of Sherlock Holmes that
1t almost reads like a parody of it.
The apple orchards of Judge Well
house in Kansas cover an area of
$50 acres, and contain 100000 apple