Men of Muscle, and the Highland Games of Scotland, etc.

DUNCAN M'LENNAN, OF THE EDINBURGH POLICE. T HERE have been many all round athlete , champions, and otherwise, but there ha probably neYcr been a man who could excel at so many different branches as Duncan l\f'Lennan, now of the Edinburgh police force. In addition to being a good putter, hammer-thrower, and caber to ser, Duncan could dance and play the pipes, and -a thing unusual in Highland athletes-he is a plendid swimmer. M'Lennan was born at Balmacaan, Glen Urquhart, Inver– ness- hire, 20th December, 1859. He \Yas brought up in an atmosphere of gaelic, bagpipes and sporrans. His uncle, William M'Donald, wa. piper to H.R.II. the Prince of Wales, now King Edward II., while several other expon– ents of S otland s national war music have . prung from the same stock. The great Willie :M'Lennan' mother wa. born in the same glen. A foreigner can never understand the bagpipe of cot– land. He thinks they 'an only be a relic of the palmy days of the clans and their fights with each other-that is if he thinks about the pipes at all. .But the bagpipes of Scotland are more than any Sassenach can ever dream, there is a voice almost human in the pipes, they speak of warfare as an oracle shouting from the mountain top, anon whispering low down in the glen. The battle, the shouts of victory, or the wails of defeat, the sympathetic murmur~ of the clan weeping with the widows and orphans of the slain 1 and the 98