Chapter I: Part 1

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GLASGOW MEN AND WOMEN

THE EARL OF LYTTON AS LORD RECTOR OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY

_Frontispiece_

A Rosebud garden of Girls With the adjacent Professors

Professor Simpson’s Introductory Paper

“Patient and Attentive Hearing”

The Clerk to the Senate

“Milton’s Memorable Vision”

“Educated Intellectual Youth of Scotland”

Poet and Diplomatist LL.D.

“And this from an Austrian Sabre
When the field of Marengo was won”

“Let me give you a preliminary instance”]

GLASGOW
MEN AND WOMEN

THEIR CHILDREN
AND SOME STRANGERS
WITHIN THEIR GATES

A SELECTION FROM THE SKETCHES OF TWYM
BY
A. S. BOYD

LONDON
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27 PATERNOSTER ROW
1905

Printed by BALLANTYNE & CO. LIMITED
Tavistock Street, London

CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTION 11

MUNICIPAL
THE FOUNDATION-STONE 19
A RECEPTION AND AN OUTING 20
THE JUBILEE BALL 23
THE MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS 24
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION 27
QUEEN VICTORIA AT THE EXHIBITION 28
THE SHAH OF PERSIA 31
FIRST COUNCIL MEETING IN THE NEW CHAMBERS 32
A CITY BALL 35
SHUNA 36

THE UNIVERSITY
JOHN BRIGHT, LORD RECTOR 39
THE BUTE HALL 40
EDMUND LUSHINGTON, LORD RECTOR 43
THE EARL OF LYTTON, LORD RECTOR _Frontispiece_
A RECTORIAL ELECTION 44
BAZAAR IN THE UNIVERSITY 47

INSTITUTIONS
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE 48
THE CORN EXCHANGE 51
AT THE CIRCUIT COURT 52
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY 55
GLASGOW GREEN 56
THE BOTANIC GARDENS 59
GLASGOW PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION 60

POLITICAL AND OTHER VISITORS
THE CROFTERS’ COMMISSION 63
THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY 64
MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN 67
LORD GEORGE HAMILTON 68
A LIBERAL MEETING 71
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE 72
MR. GLADSTONE IN GLASGOW 75
LORD HARTINGTON 76
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN 79
INTERESTING STRANGERS--VARIED 80
HENRY WARD BEECHER 83
GLASGOW JURIDICAL SOCIETY 84

ARTISTIC
INSTITUTE OF THE FINE ARTS 87
PEOPLE AT THE PICTURES 88
ARTISTS AND THEIR FRIENDS 91
AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE 92
THE FINE ART INSTITUTE AGAIN 95
ART CLUB COSTUME BALL 96
TABLEAUX IN REHEARSAL 99

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC
A BERLIOZ CONCERT 100
A MACKENZIE ORATORIO 103
THE MANNS SEASON 104
MUSICIANS 107
DRAMATIC AMATEURS OF THE 5TH L.R.V. 108
DRAMATIC AMATEURS OF THE 1ST L.R.V. 111
DRAMATIC AMATEURS OF THE 1ST L.R.V. AGAIN 112
THE PHILOMEL CLUB 115

VOLUNTEERS
A VOLUNTEER BAZAAR 116
A GATHERING OF THE 1ST L.R.V. 119
WEST OF SCOTLAND RIFLE ASSOCIATION 120
A BOYS’ BRIGADE INSPECTION 123
A REGIMENTAL SOIRÉE 124
ON BOARD THE _DRAKE_ 127

SPORTS
WEST OF SCOTLAND SPORTS 128
FOOTBALL 131
HIGHLAND SPORTS 132
CRICKET 135
WESTERN BATHS 136
WELLCROFT BOWLING-GREEN 139
POLICE SPORTS 140

SOCIAL EVENTS
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES’ DEMONSTRATION 143
A PATRIOTIC DINNER 144
A COUNTY ASSOCIATION SOIRÉE 147
A COUNTY SOCIETY DINNER 148
AN ENGINEER’S ANNIVERSARY 151
AN INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION 152
THE ATHENÆUM HOUSE-WARMING 155
THE ELDER PARK, GOVAN 156
EAST-END EXHIBITION 159

THE RIVER AND THE FIRTH
A LAUNCH FROM NAPIER’S YARD 160
THE CHANNEL FLEET 163
AN OCEAN LINER 164
THE COASTING SEASON 167
HOW TO GO TO THE COAST 168
IN ARRAN 171
AGAIN IN ARRAN 172
SEASIDE BITS 175
A YACHTING CRUISE 176
CORINTHIAN YACHTING 179
ANOTHER YACHTING EXPERIENCE 180
THE _COLUMBA_ 183
FAIR DEALING 184

TOWN AND COUNTRY CHARACTER-SKETCHES
SOME FELLOW-TRAVELLERS 187
TRAMS EAST AND WEST 188
THE FLITTING TERM 191
A DOMESTIC EXPERIENCE 192
A COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION 195
SAFETY ASSURED 196
BEARING WITH THE INFIRMITIES OF A FRIEND 196
THE PARSON OF THE PERIOD 199
SPIRITUAL APATHY 199
EMULATION 200
A BONE OF CONTENTION 200
NATURE’S SIMPLICITY 203
ANOTHER OF THE SAME 203
GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME 204
WHAT IT’S COMING TO 204
THE REASON OF IT 207
AN ART EXTRA 207
GUID GEAR 208
WHAT IT IS TO BE A LORD 208
NOT A LIKELY CUSTOMER 211
JEER, BOYS, JEER 211
REGULAR DEAD-HEADS 212
PRIDE OF STATION 212
SYMPATHY 215
A CITY IDYLL 215
OUR BOYS 216
A SEASONABLE THREAT 216
BEARING A BOOL 219
SAIR FASHED 219
HE KNEW SHE WAS RIGHT 220
THE SOFT ANSWER 220
KIND INDEED 223
ALMOST TOO FASHIONABLE 223
THE RISING GENERATION 224
PARADISE LOST 224
A BAD RECOVERY 227
THE MAN OF FEELING 227
A RIGHT TO A CHARACTER 228
A PROVISIONAL ORDER 228
INTERFERENCE WITH FAMILY PRIVILEGE 231
HALLOWE’EN RIVALS 231
A DISPUTE IN THE FIRM 232
DIGNITY OFFENDED 232
BEFORE THE BALL 235
ETIQUETTE AT THE RIVETERS’ RE-UNION 235
REAL BENEFACTORS 236
THE LOAVES AND THE FISHES 236
SIGNS OF THE FESTIVE SEASON 239
MORE SIGNS OF THE FESTIVE SEASON 240
RANDOM QUOTATIONS 243

INTRODUCTION

HERE is a book about Glasgow; not the Glasgow known to our young friends in their teens, or remembered by those in their early twenties, but the Glasgow familiar to their fathers and mothers when _they_ were in their teens and early twenties. That was away back in the ’eighties, before the days of electric light in the streets, electric cars, an intricate internal railway system, the new art galleries, and all the other improvements of which I--a stranger almost in Glasgow now--am only dimly cognisant. We considered Glasgow in those days, as many thousands do now, to be a very good place to live in. We had some rather jolly times. We took an easy and good-humoured view of things in general; and if the pages of this book convey any other impression, then they fail in their purpose. The two weekly papers in which the sketches originally appeared tried to minister to this easy-going good humour.

One of these papers is dead; let us speak of it respectfully. The other was its senior, and is its survivor; let us speak even more respectfully of it--the _Bailie_, which, dating from 1872, has for over a generation been one of the recognised institutions of Glasgow. It is, and has always been, essentially a local journal. Though every now and then portraits of personages who are prominent outside Glasgow circles have appeared in its pages, it is Glasgow alone that forms the _Bailie’s_ chief concern. As the experience of three and thirty years has shown, the life of Glasgow--municipal, political, social, artistic--abounds in ample material for criticism and comment, humorous or otherwise. All sorts and conditions of Glasgow folk have, I am told, contributed to the _Bailie_--Doctors of Divinity, Doctors of Laws, Doctors of Medicine, Members of Parliament, Bailies and Lord Provosts, among others--but the anonymity of the contributors has always been preserved, and to that anonymity may be ascribed some portion at least of the paper’s success. The one individuality that has become known to the citizens in connection with the _Bailie_, and whose name I may therefore be permitted to mention, is that of John D. Gray, who has occupied the position of manager from its origin to the present time. The _Bailie_ at its beginning had practically the same modest aspect that it has at present. It had fewer pages, and beyond the cartoon portrait of Lord Provost James Watson, it had no attempt at illustration. Of the more fully illustrated papers of the kind that had been tried in Glasgow, _Quiz_ was the only one that had anything like success. It published its first number in March 1881, and it lasted, through several changes of proprietorship, for about twenty years. Its first editor was William Robertson; its dramatic critic John Reid; its business manager Arnot Reid. These three friends did the greater part of the writing, both in prose and verse, in the earlier years. The design on the cover was by Martin Anderson, afterwards widely known as “Cynicus,” who contributed many of his quaint conceits to the paper, a later artist contributor being Harrington Mann. The great proportion of sketches fell to the lot of “Twym,” and it is from these that most of the present selection has been made.

William Robertson, after a lingering illness that lasted for more than five years, died at his mother’s home in Alva on the 24th December 1889; and Arnot Reid, whose connection with _Quiz_ ceased when he went to London--and onwards to Singapore, where he edited the _Straits Times_--is buried at Tonbridge in Kent, where he died on the 21st July 1901.

As in the case of the _Bailie_, the writers in _Quiz_ were anonymous. The columns of gossip and criticism were signed, but only by pen-names that did not reveal the identity of the authors. There is no need now for withholding names. I have already mentioned John Reid, who was an untiring contributor. His “Chronicle of Small Beer” did not appear in _Quiz_, however, and indeed was not written till some time after he had stopped writing for the paper. Another writer was James Nicol Dunn, lately editor of the _Morning Post_, and now of the _Manchester Courier_; while contributions (chiefly poetical) from John Davidson, the late Dr. James H. Stoddart, and Sheriff Spens have also appeared in _Quiz_. I am speaking, of course, only of the first seven years or so, all I can speak of, in the career of _Quiz_. That some of the contents of the paper were of more than passing interest may be conceded, as several reprints have been made from its pages. We remember the “Martha Spreull” of Henry Johnston, the “Law Lyrics” of Robert Bird, and the “Sweet Briar” of James Strang, while the dainty “Wayside Vignettes” of William Canton are, most of them, to be found in his subsequently published volumes of poetry. The drawings of “Cynicus” also have been republished in various forms, and two albums of “Twym’s” sketches have been issued, 1882 and 1883.

The identity of “Twym” was never much of a secret, I daresay. I used to be asked frequently what my pseudonym meant. If there are still any friends curious on the point, it may interest them to know that the word was only an arbitrary combination of letters, and had no meaning whatever.

My last contribution to _Quiz_--the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Exhibition--appears in this volume, as does my first contribution to the _Bailie_, Lord Lytton at the University. One drawing has not appeared in either of these papers. The sketches I made when the Queen visited the exhibition were for the _Graphic_, and I have had permission to make use of the drawing done at the time from my sketches in making a new page for this book.

It would not have occurred to me to drag these sketches from the obscurity of the past, were it not that an undoubted authority informed me, in a moment of confidence, that a book of this kind would be an unquestioned benefit to the men and women of Glasgow and to the strangers within their gates. He, in short, commanded their re-publication. And so the original proofs were looked out and selected. They were also carefully revised, a line being strengthened or added here, a line being lessened or eliminated there, and new blocks were made on a slightly reduced scale for the purposes of this volume.

When I look over the faces and figures herein revived, and when I consider how many of those they are meant to represent have passed away for ever, the collection seems a trifle antiquated; but when I remember that many of the personages are still living and working, in Glasgow or in other parts of the world, some in the enjoyment of higher place and power and title, I am disposed to think the subjects quite modern, up-to-date, and possessed of sufficient interest to warrant their resuscitation.

For the notes that accompany the sketches, I had thoughts of beseeching the aid of one or other of my Glasgow literary friends--my old comrade of _Quiz_, John Reid, perhaps, or Henry Johnston, or George Eyre-Todd, or J. J. Bell, or Neil Munro--or of my wife; but if any of these sparkling pens had come into play, where would my sketches have been beside their erudite romantic humour? As this book was meant more to be looked at than to be read, I thought that those who cared to inspect the drawings would not object to have a plain word or two from the man who made them, instead of something more brilliant from a real literary person.

It is as something of a veteran that I speak in these notes, but I trust I am not too garrulous or egotistical. The notes are not meant to contain much information, but such as they do contain is, to the best of my knowledge, to be depended on.

And now begins the little reminiscent show and the running commentary by the showman.

A. S. B.

LONDON, _November 1905_.

GLASGOW MEN AND WOMEN

THE FOUNDATION-STONE

LET us begin with matters municipal and with a notable event. On the 6th of October, 1883, the foundation-stone of the new Municipal Buildings in George Square was laid. There had been a good deal of excitement and much preparation, for although Glasgow was making a purely domestic thing of it, a sort of family party, and was to be independent of Royalty or of any other distinguished person from the outside, there was to be a considerable spectacle, a procession of the trades with banners and all kinds of music. There were triumphal arches and other signs of gorgeousness in the Square. A great area was given up to grand stands and platforms for the accommodation of the innumerable people who wanted to see the deed done. The man who did the deed was one esteemed worthy the honour of doing it, Lord Provost John Ure, who was going out of office in a few weeks time. There is a back view of the Lord Provost here in the robes that were, if I mistake not, a new adjunct to the dignity of the Glasgow magistrates. But you will notice that when the real business of the day had to be undertaken, the Lord Provost doffed his robes and went to his work in a workmanlike manner.

Everybody was pleased, everybody was proud, and as many as the City Hall could hold dined there in the evening and drank success to the building that would grow over the stone declared to be well and truly laid.

A Decoration

The City Chamberlain

The Town Clerk

THE LORD PROVOST

The Provincial Grand Master

The Chief Constable

A Temporary Statue

Minions preparing for the Deed

The Lord Provost from the South East

The Oswald Statue made use of

The Obstinate Youth who would not sit down

In the Ladies’ Gallery

IN GEORGE SQUARE

Sufficient for the Day

IN THE CITY HALL

The Toast Master

THE SHERIFF OF LANARKSHIRE

MR. G. ANDERSON M.P.

MR. WM. PEARCE

THE LORD PROVOST

LORD CRAIGHILL

SIR ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL

THE LORD PROVOST OF EDINBURGH]

A RECEPTION AND AN OUTING

IT fell to Lord Provost William McOnie, appropriately enough, to entertain the members of the Iron and Steel Institute when, in September 1885, they held their conference in Glasgow under the presidency of Dr. John Percy. The reception was in the Corporation Galleries, where indeed the meetings of the Conference had been held. It was said that the pictures were in no way the worse by contact with the Conference, but how could Art suffer if Iron and Steel were happy?

Reception in Honour of the Iron and Steel Institute

The Struggle For Food

Lord Provost McOnie

Dr. John Percy FRS

Sir Henry Bessemer]

And here we have iron and steel, in the form of the steamer _Scotia_, doing their best to make things comfortable for the Weavers’ Society of Anderston, one of those ancient organisations that form an essential part of the constitution of Glasgow. The annual outing seems to be early in the year. It is only the end of April, but the weather is a foretaste of summer, the destination of the party Lamlash, and the Deacon of the year Mr. Archibald Stewart.

30th. April 1885

With the Weaver’s Society of Anderston.

Deacon Stewart]

THE JUBILEE BALL

THE next municipal event herein recorded falls on the 16th of June, 1887, on which date Glasgow celebrated the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Lord Provost McOnie had given place to Lord Provost James King, by this time a Jubilee Knight, and Sir James presided over the local celebrations. There was a Volunteer review on the Green during the day, which was a hot one, and in the evening a ball given in St. Andrew’s Halls. That this was a festive gathering is perhaps sufficiently indicated in the sketches; that it was loyal may be taken for granted.

9 WALTZ

SUPPER FROM 10.30]

THE MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS

A MYTHICAL being, supposed to be the Special Commissioner of the _Bailie_, is here represented as inspecting the interior of the magnificent new buildings, reared from the designs of Mr. William Young, and at that time being carried well on towards the finishing touches.

A Bit of Stained Glass

A passing feature of the Great Room

He looks higher

He dreams he dwells in Marble Halls

He tries his hand at Mural Decoration Subject “Commerce”

Our Commissioner is directed by the Clerk of Works

He views George Square through the Front Door]

OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION

THE International Exhibition of 1888 was a large item in that part of Glasgow history with which we have to deal. We deal with the exhibition on its two great occasions only, the first being the opening ceremony by the then Prince and Princess of Wales, who brought a glorious day with them for the purpose.

The day was the sixth of May. The Grand Hall of the Exhibition was crowded for hours before the advent of the Royal party. As there was music enough to listen to, and much to look at in the individuals composing the crowd, nobody felt the time hang heavy. After the Prince and Princess came and had taken up their position on the daïs, the formal opening of the Exhibition did not take long. Dr. Donald Macleod delivered the prayer; Sir Archibald Campbell read the Address; Sir James King presented to the Princess the Album containing water-colour sketches given by members of the Glasgow Art Club; Dr. A. C. Mackenzie conducted his “New Covenant,” and the Prince of Wales in a short speech declared the Exhibition open.

WELCOME

At the Central Station. The Lord Provost presenting the Magistrates

IN THE EXHIBITION SIR ARCHD. CAMPBELL PRESENTING AN ADDRESS]

QUEEN VICTORIA AT THE EXHIBITION

THE Exhibition had been a success beyond all expectations, and its crowning glory was the visit of the Queen. Her Majesty paid two visits; one, in State, on the 22nd of August, and another privately on the 24th. Accompanying the Queen were the Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg, the Grand Duke of Hesse and his son the Hereditary Grand Duke, besides his daughter the sweet-faced Princess Alix, who is now Empress of Russia. Her Majesty had not been in Glasgow since 1849, and comparatively few of those who saw her then can have turned out to see her nine-and-thirty years after. Few or many however, I have no doubt they were as enthusiastic in their welcome to the venerable Queen as they had been to her in their younger days, and as their younger fellow citizens were on these fine days of August ’88. The Queen was the guest of Sir Archibald and Lady Campbell at Blythswood, and besides going to the Exhibition, the Queen visited the Municipal Buildings and Queen Margaret College; Paisley also coming in for a share of the royal attention.

Among those who were presented to the Queen at the Exhibition was the architect of the Buildings, Mr. James Sellars. His lamented death occurred in October, before the close of the great show he had done so much to make memorable.

Mr. John Lavery was commissioned by the Executive to paint an important picture of the Queen in the Exhibition, and his work now hangs in the permanent collection at Kelvingrove.

THE QUEEN READING THE REPLY TO THE ADDRESS AT THE EXHIBITION.]

THE SHAH OF PERSIA

NASR-ED-DIN, afterwards assassinated in the streets of his own capital, was what is called an “enlightened monarch,” and he wrote a book about his Western travels. At the time he visited Glasgow he was the guest of the Duke of Montrose. In the City he was taken first to the Council Chamber, where an exchange of compliments took place between His Oriental Majesty and the Lord Provost. After that he was conveyed to the Corporation Galleries, where a large party sat down with him to lunch. Prince Malcom Khan acted as interpreter of the formal speeches, but as for the conversation at lunch, so far as I remember noticing, there was nothing very animated. It is just possible that Sir James King had learned the Persian for “good,” “bad,” and “middling,” pronouncing these words emphatically or interrogatively to his guests on either hand as the various dishes came round. Even a Lord Provost can’t get up an entire Oriental language for only one occasion, but three words properly applied go a long way in making one’s self agreeable to an Asiatic Monarch.

The Boy at Luncheon

The Shah’s Reply in the Council Chamber

Presentation of Consuls

Prince Malcom Khan wonders how it will come in English

Sir James Marwick

Sir John McNeill

The Duke and Duchess of Montrose

Sir H. Drummond Wolff

The Shah prees the Soup

The Grand Vizier

The Fair Beauty and the Dark Ones]

FIRST COUNCIL MEETING IN THE NEW CHAMBERS

IN September 1888, when Queen Victoria had an Address presented to her in the courtyard of the new buildings, Her Majesty’s reply concluded with these words, “I gladly inaugurate these noble Municipal Buildings, which are worthy of the ancient renown and modern prosperity of your great city.” It was not for more than a year afterwards that this first Council meeting was held under the palatial roof. Sir James King, we see, is still Chief Magistrate, but Lord Provost John Muir is not far off.

A Few Councillors

Deacon-Convener Mason

Lord Dean of Guild Ure

Some Magistrates]

A CITY BALL

AND here is Lord Provost Muir taking advantage, in February 1891, of the splendid possibilities of the new chambers for purposes of reception and entertainment, possibilities that have been amply demonstrated by Sir John Muir’s successors in office.

Dowagers in the Gallery

In the Supper-Rooms

The Refreshment-Room

The Ball-Room

The Reception Room

Arrival of _The Bailie_]

SHUNA

THIS western isle, two-and-a-half miles by one-and-a-quarter, one hundred acres being arable land, has belonged since 1829 to Glasgow, having been presented by James Yates, a native of the city. Few opportunities have been taken by the Corporation of visiting this twig of the civic tree, though now and again a small deputation has inspected the island. On the 7th of August 1890, a large party of the Council and their friends went by special train to Oban, where Bailie John Neil had placed his steam-yacht _Myrtle_ at their disposal for the voyage to Shuna and back, a matter of two hours each way. It was a perfect day among the islands, one of those days that make the lot of even a Glasgow Magistrate a not unhappy one, one of those summer days that it is always pleasant to recall.

On the island a ten-months-old baby was waiting to be christened, no minister having been on Shuna earlier in the infant’s career. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Edgar and Mr. Milligan, two clergymen who were of the municipal party. It was a proud quarter of an hour for the young shepherd and his wife, the parents, and the hat which was passed round obtained a substantial tocher for Mary Ann Myrtle, as the child had been named.

The “Myrtle”

Farewell to Shuna

Our Yachting Host and Hostesses

The Christening Party

The Shuna Mother and the Shuna Mite

Rev Dr. Edgar

The Font

The “Tocher” for the Bairn

The Tenant of Shuna and the Lord Provost’s Goatskin

The Lord Provost’s Studious Boys]

JOHN BRIGHT, LORD RECTOR

THIS is the most remote historical event recorded in our collection. The 22nd of March 1883, was the day on which a great audience crowded St. Andrew’s Hall to hear John Bright deliver his address as Lord Rector of the University. This address, which I daresay had a good deal of the “Little England” element in it, is memorable chiefly for the speaker’s earnest appeal on behalf of the wretched poor, and one remembers its impressive simplicity of eloquence as perhaps the finest example of platform oratory it has ever been one’s lot to hear, even as the utterances of Principal John Caird live in the memory as being among the most eloquent ever delivered from the pulpit.

As Mr. Bright was emphasising one of his points he struck the mace in front of him and its head gave way. This was promptly replaced by Mr. Janitor Macpherson with one of his benignant smiles amid the howls of the delighted students.

Among the “new LL.D.s” in the sketch may be observed Mr. Henry Campbell-Bannerman, then a less prominent figure in the public eye than, as Sir Henry, he is in these later days.

Mr. Chas. Tennant M.P.

Lord Rosebery

Professor Roberton

IN THE CITY HALL

A NEW LL.D.

The New Burgess

The Town Clerk

The Very Rev. the Principal

THE LORD PROVOST

Doffing the Rectorial Robe before beginning the Address

“I am an entire Stranger to University Life”

“I plead for these Millions”

Off with its Head--So much for Birmingham

More new LL.D.s]

THE BUTE HALL

THE opening of this hall--named after its donor--in the University took place on the evening of 1st February 1884. Principal Caird in his robes received the guests in the Randolph Hall before they spread themselves over the floors and galleries of the larger apartment and penetrated to the museum. Everybody who had any claim to wear academic robes had put them on, and the effect as a whole was awe-inspiring, especially to those who felt comparatively unclothed in ordinary evening dress.

I have not been in the Bute Hall for many a day, but the one-and-twenty years that have passed since the opening night have removed most of the faces that may be recognised in the sketch and must have toned down the walls and fittings, whose newness was the occasion of this reception, giving something of a suitable air of antiquity to that part of the ancient seat of learning.

IN THE MUSEUM ANCIENTS AND MODERNS

RECEPTION IN THE RANDOLPH HALL]

EDMUND LUSHINGTON, LORD RECTOR

THE venerable Professor Lushington was made Lord Rector on strictly non-political and purely academic grounds. It was a personal compliment on the part of the University in which he had so long held a chair, as gracefully bestowed as it was graciously accepted. Professor Lushington--one must make the inevitable reference to his being brother-in-law of Tennyson, who had “said things” about him in verse--was the first to deliver a Rectorial address in the Bute Hall. His address cannot have been heard by many beyond his immediate vicinity. The voice of the aged Lord Rector was more than usually feeble, the students were more than usually noisy, and even the hint that Sir William Thomson (now Lord Kelvin) quite evidently gave the speaker produced little improvement.

The wooden doll furtively placed under the reading-desk was of course a cause of some merriment. An umbrella wielded by the Janitor brought it down, but I never heard who retained the toy as a souvenir.

The dear old delightful University Custom

Sufferers

“Order Gentlemen!”

A Hint from Sir Wm. Thomson

Exit]

A RECTORIAL ELECTION

IN 1887, when Lord Rosebery and Lord Lytton were the candidates put forward for the chair of Lord Rector, the Liberal candidate had a majority of twenty-two votes overhead, but he had a majority in only two of the Nations. As Lord Lytton had also a majority in two of the Nations, the result was a draw, and the Chancellor of the University, Lord Stair, gave his casting-vote in favour of the Conservative candidate. Thus it came about that in the autumn of 1888 Lord Lytton, as Lord Rector, addressed the students in the Bute Hall. As shown in the frontispiece the amenities of the position were much as usual.

At the next election on Saturday, the 15th of November 1890, the candidates were Mr. A. J. Balfour and Lord Aberdeen, the former being returned by a large majority after the customary hilarious proceedings on the summit of Gilmorehill.

Voters for ABERDEEN TO EXTINGUISH “YELP”

VOTE VOTE

Voters for “BALFOUR THE MOST DISTINGUISHED LIVING SCOTSMAN”

PEASE MEAL

Equipped

A “NATION” awaiting the Result

A Tree Episode

NATIO TRANSFORTHANA

Quad-Wranglers

Where some of the pease meal went

A Prof’s Representatives]

BAZAAR IN THE UNIVERSITY

THE Earl of Stair, supported by the Principal and Senatus of the University and by the Lord Provost and magistrates of the city, opened the Bazaar with due impressiveness. Thereafter one’s pockets were not safe and much coin changed hands in the Bute and Randolph Halls. I forget how much was realised--something in tens of thousands, I think--enough, at any rate, to make the Students’ Union a proud body.

Piscatorial

Café Chantant

Speculative

Reflective

Feline

The Stray Child

Stall “Victoria”

Lord Stair’s Opening Address]

THE ROYAL EXCHANGE

A SKETCH made in March 1887. There are some portraits here of city men that may be recognised by those who knew the frequenters of the Exchange eighteen years ago. I cannot myself venture to label any, for though several of the figures are familiar to my recollection, their names escape me.

LIST OF OWNERS

IRON MARKETS

The Iron Ring

Some Other Ring

Current Events

Personages

In the Reading-Room]

CORN EXCHANGE

HERE, also, are presumptive portraits of that period; an ex-Lord Provost in the person of Mr. John Ure, a coming Lord Provost in the person of his nephew, now Sir John Ure Primrose, Mr. G. W. Clark and his son, Mr. David Clark, Mr. Mitchell Smith, Mr. Archibald Robertson, and Bailie Dunlop. The boy carrying samples up the stairs may be a merchant prince now, for aught I know. I hope he is.

GLASGOW

CORNCOBS & Co.]

AT THE CIRCUIT COURT

THE respectable-looking old gentleman in the dock, and the Saltmarket-seeming lady by his side, were accused--and doubtless convicted--of stealing watches in a most systematic and persistent manner from unwary citizens such as “the deaf witness,” or “one who was robbed,” or any watch-possessing person who came within their iniquitous radius.

The Oath

The Communicative Witness

The Nervous Witness

The Deaf Witness

The Intelligent Jury

LORD MACLAREN

The Smart Detective Witness

The Indictment

One who was robbed

Counsel for the Defence

Counsel for the Prosecution

The Prisoners]

THE MITCHELL LIBRARY

THESE sketches were made on a Saturday afternoon in April 1885, in the first premises occupied by the Mitchell Library, where accommodation was somewhat limited, and where the odours of cheese, ham, and other provisions excellent in their way, arose from the warehouses over which the library had found a temporary home.

The readers are certainly a mixed lot, and more or less picturesque, even as are those of the more exclusive Reading-room of the British Museum. Those who stroll in just to pass the time are easily distinguishable from those who come for purposes of study.

Dispensing Volumes

Making their Choice

Youthful Avidity

“The Illustrated London News”

Enough

Too Much

Nota Bene

A Pamphlet

Among the Periodicals

Clean Hands

“The Art Journal”]

GLASGOW GREEN

THIS is the Green on a Sunday evening, when various strange people with an out-of-the-way “mission,” or a desire for debate, can find scope for their eloquence or their arguments, and can make a reputation of a sort. It is a cheap and satisfying entertainment, and is fully taken advantage of both by speakers and by listeners, mainly on Sundays, but on Saturdays also and on other fine summer’s evenings.

Evangelism

A Demolisher of Romanism

A Card Party

A Few Words on Land Restoration

An “Anglo-Israelite” and his Opponent

Protestantism versus Popery

Teetotalism]

THE BOTANIC GARDENS

THE Band and Pipers of the 93rd Highlanders play. It is a radiant evening in August. There is a glamour over the scene--under the dome of the “Kibble,” or out on the lawn, or among the shrubberies--that is restful and not of the city. Let us not disturb it by attempted description.

CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED
UNLESS ACCOMPANIED
BY THEIR
PARENTS OR GUARDIANS

At the Conservatory Door

“This is the Forest Primeval”

A Dryad

Training for the Navy

Active Juvenile Specimens

Specimens of the _Homo_ _Longus_

Dusk]

GLASGOW PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION

IT met in the ex-church known as Waterloo Rooms, and was presided over by Mr. John Turnbull, Jr., in evening dress. It would not be safe for me to reveal the real names of the members, who were known only by that of the constituencies they were supposed to represent; but I may say that the picturesque “member for Durham” was Mr. Craibe Angus, whose interest in artists and poets, as well as in politicians, was well known.

The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker

For Norwich

For Hereford

The Leader of the Liberal Party

For Exeter

For Pontefract

For West Belfast

For the Universities

For Bethnal-Green

The Member for Durham

The Member for Preston]

THE CROFTERS’ COMMISSION

THIS was in the Justices’ Court-House on the 19th of October, 1883, after the Commission, a goodly array of Scottish names, had been for some months touring the Highlands and islands. The result of its deliberations has long been public property. I remember it was an interesting and interested audience that gathered to hear the evidence given in Glasgow. One venerable witness, with a long white beard, on being asked his age gave it as “forty.” Lord Napier seemed surprised. “Forty?” he questioned incredulously. “Well, _about_ forty,” replied the ancient-looking man, apparently resenting any more searching inquiry as to his antiquity.

The “Father of the Glasgow Press” introduced in the sketch was Mr. J. G. Temple of the _Mail_, whose death took place something like twenty years after this date.

SHERIFF NICOLSON

SIR KENNETH MACKENZIE

LORD NAPIER

MR. MACNEILL

LOCHIEL

MR. FRASER MACKINTOSH M.P.

PROFESSOR MACKINNON

The Poetess Of SKYE

Under Examination

More or less interested

The Father of the GLASGOW Press

He admitted that he was “about forty”

Prospective Witnesses]

THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY

ON the 1st and 3rd of October, 1884, were held two meetings, here rolled into one, with Lord Salisbury as chief speaker, and the whole local strength of the Conservative party backing him. At that time leader of the Opposition, Lord Salisbury was received with much enthusiasm in Glasgow--then not a Conservative city by any means--an enthusiasm said to have been greater than that accorded Lord Beaconsfield when he appeared as the University’s Lord Rector several years previously.

Lord Salisbury was the guest of the laird of Blythswood, who was chairman at one of these meetings, the Duke of Montrose presiding at the other.

Supporters

Sir Archd. Campbell

Mr. Pearce

Mr. Shaw Stewart

The Duke of Montrose

Lord Balfour of Burleigh

Lord Lothian

Lord Elcho

“It is a horrible tale of desertion committed by the British
Government.”

Mr. Jas. Sommervell of Sorn

Lord Kintore

Lord Salisbury--“I only warn you to be watchful”

Lord Dalkeith

Mr. J. H. A. MacDonald MP

Sir John Dalrymple Hay

The Front Row

Ready writers

Mr. McAllister

Conservative Working-men--

Mr. McManus]

MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

THE Chamberlain demonstration took place in St. Andrew’s Hall in September 1885. It was a different Mr. Chamberlain in those days from that known in the political world of to-day. He is referred to in the ’eighties as “St. Joseph of the Caucus and the abomination of the Conservatives.” At that period wasn’t Mr. Chamberlain touring with an “unauthorised programme”--something about Old Age Pensions, Workmen’s Compensation, and Three Acres and a Cow? Of course in Glasgow he had a tremendous and fascinated audience. Mr. Gilbert Beith, a Member of Parliament two months or so later, was chairman.

Mr. Cunningham Graham of Gartmore

Mr. E. R. Russell

Mr. B. F. C. Costelloe

Dr. Cameron M.P.

“There is Something rotten in our system”

“I don’t want to quarrel with the _Times_”

Sir Wm. Collins

Sir Charles and his Guest

Mr. Campbell of Tulliechewan

The Chairman Mr. Gilbert Beith

Thos. Russell M.P.]

LORD GEORGE HAMILTON

LORD George, who was then First Lord of the Admiralty, followed close on Mr. Chamberlain’s heels in Glasgow, and I read that the way in which he dealt with Mr. Chamberlain’s “newly-fledged claims to be a Christian Philanthropist” was exceedingly happy. Lord George had not dressed for the occasion, and some people may have thought this evinced an aristocratic disregard for appearances, but it was really owing to the fact that the portmanteau containing his evening clothes had gone astray.

The Chairman

Mr. James Somervell of Sorn

“I can not believe in hustings philanthropy”

“Gentlemen, Our position is peculiar”

Mr. J. N. Cuthbertson

Mr. W. C. Maughan

G.H.

Lord George’s Dress-Suit Which got lost by the way

Lord Kintore

The Mistress of Blythswood

The Lord Advocate.

The First Lord of the Admiralty being introduced

The Solicitor-General]

A LIBERAL MEETING

BETWEEN this date, December 1885, and that of the meeting last recorded, a General Election had taken place and the Liberal party was able to telegraph, after the counting of votes, “Glasgow’s message to Mr. Gladstone--‘we are seven.’” This meeting, over which Lord Rosebery presided, making one of his brilliant and witty speeches, was supposed to welcome the seven. Only two put in an appearance, Mr. Gilbert Beith and Mr. Mitchell Henry. There were plenty of speakers, however, as one may see from the opposite page.

Mr. Craig Sellar M.P.

Sir Wm. Collins

Mr. James Campbell

Mr. James Caldwell

“That is the beginning and that is the end of the Conservative
Reaction”

Lord Rosebery

Mr. Stephen Mason M.P.

“The Liberals in Scotland would have a compact opposition of Six”

Mr. Mitchell Henry M.P.

Mr. Campbell Bannerman M.P.

Mr. Gilbert Beith M.P.

Mr. Wm. Jacks M.P.]

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE

IN June 1886 the constituencies were again upturned by a General Election, Mr. Gladstone having decided to go to the country on the Irish Home Rule question. The Prime Minister, full of his new scheme, poured forth his eloquence in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Edinburgh naturally having a double share. It was at one of his Edinburgh meetings in the Music Hall that I first noticed that Mr. Gladstone’s left hand was minus the forefinger.

I ought to make some excuse for putting what is really an Edinburgh drawing into a book about Glasgow, so I beg to plead Mr. Gladstone’s fascinating personality and my desire to give Edinburgh this little bit of a show. She very kindly allowed Mr. Gladstone to come to Glasgow for our edification.

A Grand Young Woman

Mr. Goschen’s Opponent, Dr. Wallace

On the Edinburgh Platform

Just Stewards

Mrs. Childers

Lady Aberdeen

Mr. John Cowan of Beeslack

The Home Secretary / and his Daughter

“I am not prepared to consent to the repeal of the Union”

“--an extract on the subject from Mr. Fox”

Listening for an Adversary’s Argument

The Source of Eloquence]

MR. GLADSTONE IN GLASGOW

THE meeting was held in Hengler’s Circus. At one part of his speech Mr. Gladstone wished to read a quotation from Burke, but “the lift grew black” temporarily, and it was impossible to see the words on the paper. Mr. Gilbert Beith and Sir Charles Tennant stood by and made noble effort to lend the aid afforded by a box of matches. The quotation being a rather extended one demanded more than this fleeting illumination. But the fortunate arrival of some candles saved the situation, and indeed well-meaning candles kept coming on to the platform long after full justice had been done to the words of Mr. Burke.

“Glasgow will make true and solid work in the Liberal Cause”

The Great MacDougal

Rev. George Gladstone

Mouthpieces

Mr. Gilbert Beith

Sir C. Tennant in a striking attitude

“That question is not ripe”

A Match for Gladstone!

“What said Mr. Burke on the Subject?”

The Old Man’s Guiding Star

“Lord Hartington has assisted me to make _no_ further advance”]

LORD HARTINGTON

THEN was the birth of the Unionist Party. Within a few days after Mr. Gladstone’s meeting came the Marquess of Hartington (now Duke of Devonshire), whose calm judgment and deliberate manner made a good impression and had a considerable effect on the result of the elections in Glasgow as in other places. The seven Unionist Candidates were on the platform with Lord Hartington, and of these, three were returned as members--Mr. Baird, Mr. Corbett and Mr. Caldwell.

Sir Wm. Thomson

Lord Ribblesdale

Mr. James Grahame

Provost. Browne

Mr. Bennet Burleigh

The Unionist Septemvirate

Mr. Cameron Corbett M.P.

Mr. R. Vary Campbell

Mr. James Caldwell

Mr. Colin Mackenzie

Mr. G. A. Baird

Mr. Mitchell Henry M.P.

“The Liberal Party will not, and cannot die”

“Has the record of the Prime Minister been one of unvarying
consistency?”

The Marquis of Hartington

Sir Edward Colebrooke, Chairman]

THE EARL OF ABERDEEN

THIS I find described as a Separatist Demonstration and dull as ditch-water. And yet surely there must have been something worth listening to provided by Lord Aberdeen and the other speakers here portrayed. Somebody may be able to recall the speeches; I can’t. I do remember that all Professor Henry Drummond did was to propose a vote of thanks to the chairman.

Dr. Cameron M.P.

Mr. Gilbert Beith

An Irish Deputation

Professor Henry Drummond

The Earl of Aberdeen

Mr. A. Illingworth M.P.

Mr. J. B. Balfour M.P.

Rev. Geo. Gladstone

Mr. T. Glen Coats

Lady Aberdeen

The Earl of Elgin

Mr. A. Macdougall

Mr. Alexander Asher M.P.

Rev. Professor Lindsay]

INTERESTING STRANGERS--VARIED

THE sad-looking Mr. Michael Davitt had for his chairman Mr. John Ferguson, who arrived in the hall before the speaker of the evening, and assured the audience that Mr. Davitt would follow immediately. “I left him,” said Mr. Ferguson, “just finishing his tea.”

It was Henry George who wrote “Progress and Poverty” and who was called the Apostle of Land Reform. As to the identity of his chairman when he lectured in Glasgow I have only a vague idea.

We have here also M. Paul Blouet, known as “Max O’Rell,” lecturing in his charming way under the auspices of the Sunday Society; Professor Arminius Vambéry, of Buda Pesth, the famous traveller, lecturing in the Berkeley Hall to the members and friends of the then recently formed Scottish Geographical Society; the Claimant, a melancholy man who had done his term in Dartmoor prison, and whose Chairman was Mr. James Martin, one of the quaintest of Glasgow Town Councillors, and a firm believer that this and no other was “the real Sir Roger.” And then here is dear old George Macdonald and his family in their quaint and simple rendering of the “Pilgrim’s Progress,” with no attempt at realistic scenery as a background, but which had, with the appropriately decorative curtains hung round, the effect of a mediæval picture.

On the day that I read the proof of the foregoing sentences came the announcement of the death of George Macdonald on the 18th of September at the age of eighty-one.

Chairman Ferguson

MICHAEL DAVITT

Scottish Land Restoration

The Youngest Pilgrim

DR. GEORGE MACDONALD AND FAMILY IN THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS PART 2.

MERCY

CHRISTIANA

PRUDENCE

GREATHEART

LAND REFORM

HENRY GEORGE

MAX O’RELL ON JOHN BULL AND JACQUES BON HOMME

PROFESSOR ARMINIUS VAMBERY

Sir Roger Tichborne, Baronet?

“That Friend of the people The Master of Works”]

HENRY WARD BEECHER

IT was in the end of August 1886 that the venerable Henry Ward Beecher came to Glasgow, on his farewell tour of this country. In Elgin Place Congregational Church he preached on a Sunday on “The Essence of Christianity,” and on the Monday following, in St. Andrew’s Hall, he delivered his lecture on “The Reign of the Common People,” which was said to be one of the best examples of the reverend orator’s vigorous style. On the platform with him were Dr. Joseph Parker, Rev. Albert Goodrich, Rev. W. Howie Wylie, and others.

Rev. Dr. Parker

Rev. A. Goodrich

Dr. W. G. Blackie Chairman

“The only time of my ministry that I ever saw the whole of my audience
asleep”

“When a lion eats an ox, does the _lion_ become _ox_? No, the ox
becomes LION.”

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher]

GLASGOW JURIDICAL SOCIETY

THE Hon. E. J. Phelps delivered an address to this Society in the Queen’s Rooms in the autumn of ’88--a lawyer speaking to lawyers from a platform where representatives of wisdom and learning jostled each other. Mr. Phelps was the successor of James Russell Lowell as American Ambassador to this country.

Sir Michael Connal

Impressions from the Platform

Sheriff Murray

Sheriff Berry

“In the oft-quoted words of one of them, the American lawyer ‘worked
hard, lived well and died poor’”

Listening to Sheriff Murray

His Excellency]

INSTITUTE OF THE FINE ARTS

AT the opening of the Exhibition of 1885, Sir Peter Coats signalised his presidency of the Institute by giving a banquet among the pictures. That the guests were of a thoroughly representative character may be gathered from the sketch.

Col. Mathieson

“The Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts”

Prof. Jebb

The Clergy

Mr. John Ure

Dr. Donald Macleod

“The Universities”

Prof. Gairdner

Sheriff Cowan

Two Song Birds

J. D. Taylor Gw. Art Club

“Houses of Parliament”

Mr. John Burns

Stewart Clark M.P.

The Genial Host

Francis Powell RWS

Colin Hunter ARA.

“The Literature of Scotland”

Dr. James Brown

“The Royal Academy ??” Mr. J. Forbes White

Robt. Herdman RSA

Dr. Walter C. Smith

The Croupier Mr. D. E. Outram]

PEOPLE AT THE PICTURES

THE quietness of an ordinary afternoon is the best time to see pictures, but there’s something pleasant in wandering round an exhibition in the evening, when by artificial light, if it is good, many pictures seem to have an added charm. To look at pictures in an environment of musical promenade is practically impossible, so one is better to give one’s self up to the music and the crowd.

“Three fine women Uncle Charlie! Eh!”

Visitors by Daylight

“The Sisters”

Explanatory

Official

The Mosaic Jetsam

Skywards gazing

SHOW YOUR TICKET

Analytical

Clerical

Visitors by Gaslight (A Musical Monday)]

ARTISTS AND THEIR FRIENDS

THE Exhibition of the Scottish Water Colour Society (to give it its colloquial title) for 1884 was opened as usual by a luncheon party. Notable among the guests were Mr. (now Sir Laurence) Alma-Tadema, whose first appearance it was in Glasgow, and Mr. J. L. Toole, whose first appearance it wasn’t--by a very long way.

Here also is a dinner of the Fine Arts Institute to open the exhibition of 1886 and a sketch strayed from the record of another luncheon of the Water Colour Society, of Sir William Fettes Douglas, who died in 1891.

Mr. J. G. Whyte

The Secy.

Mr. Muir

Mr. Outram

Mr. Hugh Cameron RSA

Mr. W. E. Lockhart RSA

Dr. Chas. Blatherwick

Mr. Jas. H. Stoddart

Mr. J. L. Toole

Mr. Wm. McTaggart RSA

Mr. Robt. Herdman RSA

Mr. John Smart RSA

Mr. Francis Powell RWS President SSWCP

Mr. L. Alma-Tadema RA

A LUNCHEON OF THE SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOUR.

Mr. Wicks

Mr. J. E. Christie “Tam o’ Shanter”

The Secretary

The Sheriff

Mr. Muir

Mr. James Reid

Col. Mathieson

Mr. Wm. McTaggart RSA

Professor Jebb

Mr. Francis Powell RWS

Mr. D. E. Outram Chairman

Mr. F. H. Underwood

Mr. John MacWhirter A.R.A

Mr. Andrew Maxwell

A DINNER OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE FINE ARTS.

SIR WM. FETTES DOUGLAS PRSA]

AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

THE Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colour, not then called Royal, prepared as an offering to Queen Victoria at the Jubilee in 1887, a huge album containing a drawing from each member. The deputation who had the honour of delivering it to her Majesty consisted of the President, Mr. (now Sir) Francis Powell, Mr. Colin Hunter, Mr. Joseph Henderson, and myself. On the 22nd of June, the day after the great Jubilee procession, we attended at Buckingham Palace. Our little present had been sent on previously, and we found it placed on a table in the Picture Gallery in a row of other gifts, that of the Old Water Colour Society, for instance, whose deputation was headed by Sir John Gilbert; next us stood the deputation from a Ladies’ Art Society, and somewhere in the line we noticed a gift of boots and shoes.

The Queen passed up the gallery, pausing a few minutes at each table to accept the offering. We were nearest the top of the room, and ours was, therefore, the last gift to be received. Her Majesty was in quite a flutter of pleasurable excitement and beaming with smiles. As the President showed a few pages of our album, “I shall look over it,” said the Queen, “very carefully, and not in a hurry.” Then she bowed to each of us, and we felt happy.

THE FINE ART INSTITUTE AGAIN

AT the opening dinner of the Exhibition in 1888, Sir Charles Tennant presided, and these are sketches of him and the other speakers of the evening.

SPEAKING LIKENESSES FROM THE BANQUET OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE FINE ARTS

_CATALOGUE_

1 Sir Chas. Tennant Bart.

2 A. J. Kirkpatrick Esq.

3 Chas. Gairdner Esq.

4 T. G. Arthur Esq.

5 James Reid Esq.

6 Rev. Donald Macleod D.D.

7 Joseph Henderson RSW.

8 F. H. Underwood LL.D.

9 J. G. A. Baird M.P.

10 Wm. McTaggart RSA

11 Sheriff Berry LL.D.]

ART CLUB COSTUME BALL

UNTIL Friday, 29th of November, 1889, nothing so good of the kind had been seen in Glasgow. The destination of the proceeds was the Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Fund, which had been formed in the previous February, and which benefited to the extent of over £1300. In other ways besides financially the ball was a great success, and had some purely artistic features, such as the grand procession and tableau, the series of dance programmes painted by members of the Art Club and hung up for reference, also the sketches from life done in the “Studio” and afterwards sold by auction along with the programmes for the benefit of the fund.

The _Lillie_ here represented was Mrs. Langtry, who attracted considerable notice, as one sees from the eyes following her; and the _African_ _Lion_, in Moorish costume, was that amiable and distinguished young traveller, Joseph Thomson, whose too early death took place not many years after.

The Grand Pageant

The Motley Throng

The Admiring Gaze

The Lillie

The African Lion]

TABLEAUX IN REHEARSAL

THE entertainment in the Theatre Royal, for which this was a preparation, a year later than the event last mentioned, had for its object the benefit of the same Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association. The Pen-and-Pencil Club and the Glasgow Society of Musicians furnished the human material, which was shaped by Mr. William Glover into such picturesque groups as “The Judgment of Paris,” “Cleopatra before Cæsar,” “Finding the Body of Harold,” “Escape of Prince Charlie,” “Burns and Highland Mary,” and “Tam-o’-Shanter.” Another feature of the evening was a humorous toy symphony of Mr. Allan Macbeth’s, the orchestra being clad in more or less inappropriate costume.

Making Ends Meet

Burns revising Tam o’ Shanter

Professional Assistance

Glover’s Guide to Paris

One of the Merry Wives

Julius Cæsar called

“All conspirators wanted”

“Macbeth hath murdered sleep”]

A BERLIOZ CONCERT

A PERFORMANCE in January 1885 of Berlioz’s “Messe des Morts,” which demanded a considerable addition to the drums, and gave Sir August Manns (as he is now) great scope for his unrivalled power as a conductor.

The Heavenly Maid

The Chorus (Every portrait is not guaranteed)

Extra Tympani and Tromboni

Solo Vocalist

Orchestration

The Leading Movements

Breathing time for the First Violin]

A MACKENZIE ORATORIO

AT the first of the season 1885-6, Sir A. Mackenzie conducted his oratorio “The Rose of Sharon,” the instrumentation of which the musical critic of _Quiz_ declares to be its strong point, and ranking with that of any living master. He says also that the choral work is throughout scholarly and original, and free from that slavish imitation of Mendelssohn so much affected by recent writers.

Mr. Edward Lloyd

Dr. Peace

Mr. Watkin Mills

Madame Albani

Miss Hilda Wilson

Mr. A. C. Mackenzie Composer and Conductor

First Violin Mr. M. Sons]

THE MANNS SEASON

THESE are various items from different programmes in 1886-87, including a sketch of our townsman, Mr. Andrew Black.

Mr. Sons

Mr. Waud

Miss Fanny Davies

Mr. Wotton

Mr. John Dunn

Mr. August Manns

Mr. Andrew Black

Fraulein Schneider]

MUSICIANS

A GLASGOW Academy Concert in the Queen’s Rooms. The boys are under the leadership of their writing-master and enthusiastic musical professor, Mr. John MacLaren. At the piano is Mrs. MacLaren, and at the harmonium Mr. Strong.

Mr. Frederic Lamond, a pupil of Liszt, made his first public appearance in his native city in the spring of ’86, in the Queen’s Rooms.

The sketch of the dinner to August Manns, given by the Society of Musicians, shows some of the well-known local musical people of the day.

Above that is a familiar view of H. A. Lambeth, for many years the city organist.

THE GLASGOW ACADEMY CHOIR

Boaz

Ruth

The Choirmaster

Orpah

Naomi

The City Organist Mr. H. A. Lambeth

FREDERIC LAMOND

With the GLASGOW SOCIETY of MUSICIANS 29th Jany.

Mr. Berger Vice-Pres.

The Honoured Guest

Mr. Seligmann President

The Hon Secy]

DRAMATIC AMATEURS OF THE 5TH L.R.V.

A CLEVER performance (December 1885) in the Crown Halls, of two well-known pieces, in both of which Miss Catherine Watson scored the chief success among the ladies. The acting of Captain Harry MacDowall and Captain F. L. Morrison is also memorable.

GOOD FOR NOTHING

Simpson (Lieut. Flower)

Harry (Capt. Morrison)

Tom (Capt. Wallace)

Nan (Miss C. Watson)