New-York tribune., 1901-06-01
LONDON NOTES.
Mr.. CARNEGIE'S SCOTCH BoUNTY-LoRn
ROSEBERY'S MOTHER-A TILT AT
MERE MANTLE KINGS
PORTRAIT
london May Do

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negie's gift of 100000 to the scotch ,-,,o,.s,
ties has been received. The complaint G. be.r5
that the American millionaire stops in his he
nefcence with clannish prejudice at the Tweed
he remembers scotland as the land Of his birth
and scorns TO consider himself Briton. much
less an Englishman by blood He renders ~,
versity education in Scotland as free as ole
mentary education already is, but restricts the
BENEFITS OF thls great endowment TO native born
Students Of the Highlands and Lowlands Eng
lish students at the Scotch universities are not
included in his scheme Of nurihcence and he
is not an imperialst in his educational projects
for men born in the colonies are excluded He
is a canny Scotchman enriching every ,,ni
Tersty north of the Tweed, when the system of
higher education there is already well developed.
and neglecting similar institutions south of the
line where increased endowments are urgently
needed Some of Mr.. Carnegie's complaining
critics assert that he is helping TO preserve that
racial isolation which has operated to retard
the union ana Fellowship Of two great divisions
OF Great Britain.
Another objection raised by Englishmen 10
this Scotch endowment is that il does NOT nro
mote the supreme national interests of techni-
cal and commercial education but merely scat
ters smaA coles among young men and women
in the north by dispensing with the payment
OF professors and lecturers fees If Mr. Car
negie had devoted a portion Of his surplus
wealth TO the equipment of Englshmen for the
great industrial campaigns of the modern world
he would have been hailed south of the Tweed
as a wise henefactor The alarming increase
Of competition has been a warning to England
that both America and Germany have superior
facilities for training workers and merchants
for the modern battle for a market. The edu-
Gated soldiers behind the needle gun won the
battle with Austria and rallied Germany for a
great industrial campaign, and the trained cleo
tricians, designers, engineers and workmen of
the Fatherland and America have equipped
Englands chief industrial rivals for battling for
the conquest of foreign markets The educated
Englishman knows in his heart that his country
has fallen long way behind other lands in
special courses of training for wOrkmen and
merchants, and that America and Germany are
proiting by its sluggishness. Mr.. Carnegie
would not have lacked compliments and eulo-
gies If he had attempted to supply in the mid
lands, Lancashire and Yorkshire such a system
Of technical ard commercial training can be
found in SaXonY.
The scope of Mr.. Carnegies munificent Gift to
the Scotch universities is probably more COM
prehensive and practical thar the earliest ac-
counts Of il have represented it. He not only
aims st making university education free for
Scotch students Of both sexes. but also contem-
plates marked extension and Improvement of
the facilities for instruction a. Edinburgh, Glas-
gov, Aberdeen and St Andrews. He plans his
benefactions on a large scale. q Western
prairie yields its crops. and he provides ma
chinery for harvesting his bounty. He dis
tributes his surplus wealth as TO leave the
administration Of his gifts in the hands Of well
ordered, competent authorities. The Scotch
universities dealt with on terms Of equality,
viii be banded together in a league for raising
the standards and dversifying the resources Of
higher education. IL the benefits OF his bounty
restricted to Scotch students, so far as free
education is concerned clannish pride and pres
tge will be increased and this will be a source
Of strength. British interests have never suf-
fered from the characteristic Scotch love of the
home soil and the perpetuation of racial pc
culiarities and bias. AS for the equipment Of
English workmen and merchants in technical
and commercial education. il is hardly reasona-
bic 10 expect Mr. Carnegie. who has been iden-
tilted with the industrial progress Of his adopted
country TO take an active interest in this
neglected field. Saxony and other progressive
sections Of Germany have not waited for en-
dowments from millionaires before providing a
system Of technical and mercantile education
which has raised the standards Of industry and
developed commerce with every quarter of the
world. This is properly the work Of the Eng
lish municipalities and the national government
and because II has been neglected foreign COM
petition is a steadily increasing force.
The funeral of the Duchess Of Cleveland at
staindrop Church. Durham. with a memorial
service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's is
timed for a busy day, when court and minis
fers are honoring Sir Alfred Milner upon his re-
turn from South Africa, and the colors are
trooped for the conmemoraton Of Queen Vic
toria's birthday. The coincidence of the simple
burial rites at Raby Castle and the birthday
military pageant at the Horse Guards Parade
is felicitous Lord Roseberys mother was the
Queens attendant at the Coronation, her brides
maid and her lifelong friend. and she was the
owner Of Battle Abbey, with the hoary Gothic
gateway which Hawthorne loved. and the
chronicler and reviewer Of the knights of Will
fam the Conaueror. The Duchess Of Cleveland
was a great lady with intellectual gifts and
Strength Of character which rendered her
unique parsonage. apart from her distinction as
the mother Of a Prime Minister The tributes
which have been paid 10 her have tended to
separate her from the Vanity Fair OF to-day
with its frivolous pursuit Of pleasuraole eK-
element its frantic courtship Of wealth. its
liberation Of snobbishness, its idolatry of smart
and its empty living and low aims To
high rank and social prestige she added energy
OF character of the strongest fibre, the resources
OF a we'll trained mind and the social graces
OF bygone generation Of accomplished host
esses. The sketches which have appeared or
this gracious lady. with the evidence or her
Intellectual activity, her literary taste her jour
neys ana studies in old age, and her lneNhausu-
bic interest in the commonwealth OF ideas as
well as the world OF public affairs read like in
oictments Of fashionable life in Mayfair ana
the English country houses with its Vacuous
pleasures and its ignoble aims.
Nine Sarah Grand was called upon not long