'The Women's Pavilion '
Mrs. Walter Elliot (Katharine Elliot)
' Exhibits of the Council for Art and Industry '
Lady MacGregor of MacGregor
' The Peace Pavilion '
Ishbel, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
by Archibald Macmillan
2—' A Meeting of Creditors '
Read by Donald Carswell afternoon Donald Carswell givts the second of four readings chosen from the back numbers of Tin Bailie, a humorous Glasgow journal that flourished in the second hailf of the nineteenth century and was a regretted casualty of the war.
These sketches, which tell of the doings of a Strathhungo coal merchant. were from the pen of a person called Archibald MacMillan , who long kept his authorship a secret. Jeems's customers were ' principally respectable hunerweicht to hauf-ton folk' and today's instalment relates how an order for ' three tons o' the vrra best Duke o' Hamilton's jewel began a business connection ended in a meeting of creditors.
by Erik Chisholm
