SIR WALTER SCOTT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)

SIR WALTER SCOTT

THIRD BARONET'S HONOUR * Major-General Walter JosepS; MaxwellScott, in his study at Abbotsford lias spent * tho busiest week-end in his life, wrote the Melrose correspondent of the Daily Express, on Juno 10. The King's honour in making him the third Sir Walter has stirred tho imagination not' only of Scotland, but of the whole world. Postmen and telegraph messengers have never been off the doorstep of Abbotsford. Letters and telegrams have come in unceasingly from all parts of tho world. The wholo Borderland has awakened to a now realisation of the greatness of tho first Sir Walter Scott. Throughout tho week-end scores of men and women and children, in motor-car and on foot, liavo come in a constant stream to pay tribute to the memory of tho lame boy who became Scotland's greatest story writer. In this, tho centenary year of Scott's death, not, only Scotland, but tho wholo world will remember him. His home was tho mecca of men and women of all nations. Tho creation of a third Sir Walter has added romance to romance. .The title is not only regarded as a groat personal honour to Major-General Max-well-Scott, but as a royal tribute marking appropriately tho centenary year of the death of his illustrious great-great-grandfather, whoso name he bears. The titlo became extinct in 1847. Sir Walter Scott was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Walter, who died childless. The Scott centenary will bo celebrated all along tho border this summer. Every town and village is to pay tributo to " tho wizard of tho north." In Selkirk, where Scott presided ori tho Bench as sheriff, tho celebrations on Juno 18 wero marked by conferring tho freedom of that burgh on the new baronet, as well as on tho Duke of Bucclcuch, John Buchan, M.P., and a New Zcalander, Sir John Roberts, of Dunedin.