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Died. John Alexander Steuart, 69, Scottish author (A Millionaire's Daughters; The Immortal Lover) after long illness; in Bootle, England. He was famed for dispelling an aroma of sanctity with his Robert Louis Stevenson, Man & Writer, a critical biography...
...painting was done by the great American naturalist in 1827 while he was on a visit to Scotland. It was painted for a Scottish nobleman whose family sold it some years ago to Mr. Thayer. The canvas is about six by nine feet, and has the qualities of an eighteenth century landscape...
...Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when she attempted to fly the Atlantic with Capt...
...works have included writings on English and Scottish Ballads, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Witchcraft in Old and New England, the Old Farmer and his Almanack, and many others, ranging through all periods of the language. He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, as well as being the recipient of many signal honors in this country...
...station platform until she falls. After a brief agony in a hospital, Death pays her wages in full. Beginning, as in Hatter's Castle, with a cloud no bigger than a man's hand, Author Cronin by slow degrees enfolds his unforgettable characters in a Scottish mist, made not only of Nature's weeping...