THE value of a postscript lies in the opportunity a writer is given to conclude any written statement with a reference to some point supreme significance; not an afterthought, nor a side-issue, but the intimation of something vital to the matter in hand. It is a postscript of that character that here is penned. Excepting for its place in the order of the hook, this last chapter might well have been entitled "The Prospect," for the reason that all it contains is in the nature of hopeful anticipation. It is, however, a fitting conclusion to what has been written, because, while being explanatory of something that needs explanation it gives a pleasing peep into the future. Perhaps

Addendum "might have been more appropriate, but such a title would have sounded somewhat prosaic and would certainly have been less picturesque than " Postscript." Besides it would have affected the alliterative attraction of the "Contents" page.

It has been said with some truth that "all good golfers go to Gleneagles." Hut owing to lack of hotel accommodation, those from a distance cannot stay there; they can go only for the day. On the other hand, there is, as has been indicated, excellent hotel accommodation at neighbouring places. That, however, is not quite the same thing. Golfers when on extended holiday like to sleep where they golf and golf where they sleep. When the Gleneagles scheme was pro-jected it was intended that it should comprise an hotel as well as a golf course. It was realised that the one was the complement of the other, and early in 1914 the building of an hotel was commenced simultaneously with the makinu of the golf course, only, however, to he summarnly stopped soon after the beginning of the Great War. The structure of masonry and steel. fully fireproot was partly built to the level of the roof, and there it stands a temporary monument, as it were, to the cursedness of the War and the difficulties attaching to labour. But the workmanship being excellent, the structure is as good as the day it was built, and the prospects being bright the hope of the pre-war period springs again. The picture on this page gives a good idea of the hotel structure, in its setting of lovely landscape and its relation to the golf course. It is situated on an eminence about 525 feet above the level of the sea, and has a foreground which gradually slopes towards the golf course about 350 yards distant. The building stands, so to say, in its own grounds extending to over 500 acres. To the north it has an immediate background of gorgeous heather muir with Strathearn luxuriant in agricultural richness coming between it and the more distant Grampian Mountains, but the main prospect - a point or two to the east of south - with its falling foreground, spacious, clear and open, presents a glorious picture of Gleneayles, there being a vista up the glen for several miles. To the east, as far as the eye can reach, there is the panorama of sylvan beauty extending to the hills at Perth, with dark Lochnagar far away in the distant background, while westward the view is typically Highland, the features being scented pines and purple heather and the howes and knowes and greens of the golf course. An enthusiastic American visitor happily described the views from the windows of the hotel structure as being each a "fifty thousand dollar picture." They are certainly beautiful and the panoramic prospect from the tower is, of its kind, probably unsurpassed.

The Structure Of The Hotel As Iiuilt, With The Golf Course In The Foreground

It is intended that the hotel should be such as will attract the best class of people from all parts of the world. The idea is to offer visitors a combination of the comforts and pleasures of the first-class modern hotel and the delightful old country house, in such pleasant surroundings, and with such facilities for recreation, indoor and out-of-door, that the Gleneagles Summertime Season may become the vogue.

The hotel has been designed on the most modern principles. It is Georgianin style, and it is proposed that the decoration and t he finishing and furnishing should he characterised by the simple elegance and beauty of the later period of it the eighteenth c e n tury, wit h such appoint-mentsand service a- arc usually associated with hotels of the highest class.

The lounge and dining room connected by the "grand corridor " will be comfortable and spacious, and a prominent feature will he a delightful roofed-in tea terrace constructed in steel and glass extending along the main front, facing the sun, conveniently connected with the lounge as well as with the grand corridor. The corridor will he in the nature of a promenade and of such width and character as to provide additional lounging accommodation. The plan also shews a children's dining room immediately adjoining the main dining room reading and writing rooms, billiard room, smoke room, swimming pond, racquets court, and also a ballroom which will be so constructed as to be readily adaptable tor concerts and theatrical entertainments. The main staircase will be situated in an inner hall between the entrance hall and the corridor, the idea in this being to accentuate that feeling of domesticity, which it is intended should be a striking note of the hotel, and allow visitors, if they so desire, to go downstairs to the dining room or to the lounge without passing through the entrance hall, and to the dining room without passing through the lounge. The mam block of the building having a southern aspect with the dining room at the east end, visitors will, at breakfast, bask in the morning sun while the lounge and the covered tea terrace will afford facilities for sitting in the sunshine more or less all clay, and provide opportunity for seeing the sunset beyond the distant Grampian Mountains and the moonrise over the neighbouring Ochil Hills. It is further intended that there should be suites of apartments on the first and second floors entered from of! private corridors communicating with the main corridor, and a further interesting feature is a tiny tea garden on the roof of the building, about 600 feet above the level of the sea, commanding a magnificent prospect of the surrounding country tar and near. The culinary arrangements of the hotel have been specially studied, and the plans shew kitchen and relative accommodation of the highest class replete with the' most modern equipment. The lighting will be electric and the sanitary arrangements will be as perfect it is possible to make them. There is already a plentiful supply of water - having the Ochil Hills as a gathering ground - which analysis shews to be twice as clear as the water of Loch Katrine, the source of the supply of the City of Glasgow, a supply which, as is well known, is one of the best in the country. It is intended that the grounds of the hotel should be laid out in a pleasing manner, and that as well as a small but rich and orderly flower garden there should, in the immediate precincts, be a kitchen garden to meet the hotel requirements. Ample motor garage accommodation will also be provided, and a farm in the immediate vicinity of the hotel has already been leased which will be in the nature of a home farm and from which supplies for the hotel will be obtained. It is expected that the dairy at the farm will be attractive, and if the idea of having a cake and candy shop in the adjoining quaint old village of Muirtown matures, and Miss Anne Teek decides to sell curios in one of the old thatched cottages there, the children and the ladies may have interesting "ploys between their games of golf and tennis and croquet.