Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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following words at the close of an address before an English audience.- Let men say what they will, therefore. I say that as surely as the sun in the heavens once shone upon Britain and America united, so surely is it one morning to rise, shine upon, and greet again, ‘The Re-United States.' ‘The British American Union.’ His home at Skilx Castle, in the northern part of Scotland, is beautifully situated on a large estate in a district teeming with legends and traditions of early Scottish history. Besides the finest golf links in the country and splendid opportunities for yachting. Mr. Carnegie has access to as good shooting and fishing as arc to l e found in Scotland. Is it at all surprising that he should prefer this to life in New York? Strenuous as has been Mr. Carnegie’s business life he found some time to devote to literature. Besides the work already mentioned he is author of Around the World,” An American Four-in-1 land in Britain. The (ios-j)cl of Wealth. and other Itooks. all of which have been read with interest. He is a forcible sjjeaker anil does considerable reading, his favorite authors being Shakesj care and Burns. An eminent English biographer, in summing up his life has said: “Without any previous training for the position. Mr. Carnegie may be said to have leaped almost at a single bound from obscurity to eminence— front poverty to fortune.” 18

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