IF SCOTT HAD KNOWN NEWMAN

" Since Sir Walter's death in 1832, many thousands of Americans, headed by , Washington Irving, have visited Abbotsford," said
General . Sit Waite Maxwell Scott, Catholic descendant of the great Scottish novelist in New York recently.
" Even during the present war my wife—the grand-daughter of your General John A. Logan, who instituted your Memorial Day (her father won the Congressional Medal in the Cuba carnpaign)--tity wife and I have had the great pleasure of reeeivirig hundreds of your Service men on leave in Scotland, who have collie down from Edinburgh to see the hoose and the neighburing ruined Abbeys or Melrose and Dryburgh." .
" On heal sides of the Atlantic." continued Sir Walter, " we are commemorating this year the centenary of the conveision of Cardinal Newman. He, Ciladstone, and my maternal grandfather, James Robert Hope Scott, were great friends at Oxford. Newman and my grandfather came into the Church, whilst Gladstone remained where he was. We have many letters at Abbotsford from the Cardinal anti from Mr. Gladstone.