Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...supplying a large part of their poetry and romance. Let us be thankful that the Macmillans have no small share of this element; and it will be our own fault if, with God's blessing and help, we do not make our name more famous in the years to come than it has ever yet been! / THIRD ADDRESS. IN ST. ANDREW'S HALLS, GLASGOW, On Friday, November 26th, 1895. My Dear Clanswomen And Clansmen, --I sincerely wish that what Mrs. Browning says in her beautiful poem of "The Swan's Nest" regarding little Ella, were true of me to-night--"Her smile fills the silence like a speech." It would be easy in such a case, at this annual gathering of our clan, to quote a well-known phrase from Shakespeare with a slightly different rendering, to "smile and smile, and be a Macmillan!," But although our clan has doubtless, in common with other clans, done many an unlawful deed in olden times, it would, now-a-days at least, be considered taking an unfair advantage of my arbitrary powers as your chief to put you off with a smile, however genial and eloquent, instead of a" speech. I must confess at once that I have no specially interesting topic to catch your attention with. Our clan society is too recent in its origin to have any historical associations to fall back upon. We are at the interesting stage of making history, rather than recording it. And all that we can say at present about ourselves is, that we are making encouraging progress both in our finance and organisation. We are adding to our members, although this must be a slow process, considering the hereditary modesty of our clan, which in olden times induced its members to hide their identity under other names. I do not suppose that it is because the deeds of the...
