SCOTLAND TODAY
Mr. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, at fifty, haying wandered over a considerable portion of the globe, turns nostalgically to his native land for the inspiration of his new book, "My Scottish Youth.1' * A fervid Scot, Mr. Lockhart remembers with pride that not one drop of Sassenach blood flows in his veins from either his father's family or his mother's Macgregor ancestors. Despite his intense loyalty, however, he "views with alarm" certain presentday tendencies in Scotland. The decline of agriculture and fishing; the artificiality of.the modern Highland games; the Anglicisation of the young people (they couldn't read Burns without: a glossary, and they call the "Brig o' Broon" the "Bridge, of Brown"!); the preference of middle-class parents for sending their sons to English rather than Scottish public schools—these are some things that distress the returned exile, who still feels, as he has always felt, that.for him "home begins where the: waters flow north." . -;... ',
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1938, Page 24
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154SCOTLAND TODAY Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1938, Page 24
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