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8f in. by 5% in. Pp. xcii + 93-242 + 59+ [1]. The last 59 pages contain in double columns an extraordinary list of subscribers, number- ing upwards of 6,400 names ! To this volume Maclachlan contributed translations of ' Dargo, the Son of Drudin,' a poem (pp. 95-104) ; ' Ossian's Address to the Rising and to the Setting Sun ' (English and Latin, pp. 165-72); and 'Darthula ' (pp. 212- 213) ; also ' The Society of True Highlanders, a metrical effusion ' (pp. 214-23). " We can boldly assert," say the editors, " that Mr. McLachlan should be ranked among the first literary characters that Britain ever produced. From his profound knowledge of the oriental languages, and his vast natural ingenuity, he is justly entitled to fill the first situation hi any university in the kingdom ; and he has the happy art to instill into the minds of his pupils the most pious and loyal principles ; yet, from his unaffected modesty, he is far above complaining in his present situation." Pp. xc-xci.

Another edition of the ' Collection ' (un- known to Reid), with identical title-page, pp. xcii and 59 + [1], has pp. 93-242 devoted to the originals which are translated in the edition described above.

1828. Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum : | a | dic- tionary | of the | Gaelic language ; | comprising | an ample vocabulary of Gaelic words |. . . . com- piled and published under the direction of | the Highland Society of Scotland. | In two volumes. I Vol. I. (II.) | William Blackwood, Edinburgh ; and T. Cadell, London. | MDCCCXXVIII.

llf-in. by Sin. Pp. xviii + 736 + 40 ; (iv+ 1006+ 11 + [!]). According to the In- troduction, p. xiii,

" At the commencement of this undertaking it was expected that, as a source of authorities for illustration of the language, the ancient Gaelic manuscripts belonging to the Highland Society would be brought into immediate and important use. And it is but justice to the memory of a very learned and ingenious gentle- man, the late Mr. Ewen Maclachlan of Aberdeen, to state that he bestowed much assiduous labour on the deciphering of these, under disadvantages which scarcely anything but his own singular ardour could have surmounted ; he died before his task was completed ; and in him the Highland Society lost one of the compilers to whom they looked with much confidence and hope."

1841. Sar-obair nam bard Gaelach : | or. | The beauties of Gaelic poetry, | and | lives of the high- land bards : | with | historical and critical notes,
 * and | a comprehensive glossary of provincial

words. | By John Mackenzie Esq. [ Glasgow :

MDCCCXXI. [Reissued in 1872 and in 1904.]
 * Macgregor, Poison and Co., 75 Argyll Street, |

9 Jin. by 5^ in. Pp. viii*+iii-lxvi+376. Pp. 321-39 are devoted to Maclachlan, and include a biographical sketch by the Rev. J. Macintyre, LL.D., Kilmonivaig. The poems quoted are selected from the ' Grain ' of 1798, the ' Choice Collection ' of 1813,

and the ' Effusions ' of 1816 ; and include the ' Marb-rann do Mr. Seumas Beattie,' which, according to Dr. Macintyre, " for beauty of language, sincerity of sorrow, and unrivalled elegance of composition, can bear com- parison with anything of the kind ever presented to the world."

1874. AnGaidheal; | paipeir-naidheachd | agus | leabhar-sgeoil Gaidhealach. | An dara (- siathamh) leabhar (Aireamh 13 gu 72). | [Motto from Ossian.J
 * Glasgow : | (Edinburgh) | 1874-7.

7in. by 5 in. Pp. iv+380. In vol. ii. pp. 12, 41, 72, 101, 142; vol. iii. pp. 173, 213, 245, 271, 299, 330, 373 ; vol. iv. pp. 13, 79, 139, 362 ; vol. v. p. 237 ; vol. vi. pp. 84, 109, 177, appear portions, hitherto un- published, of " Sgialachd na Troidhe, air a thionndadh bho Greugais Homeir gu Gaidhlig abraich le Eobhan Maclachlan." The translations are of ' Iliad,' i. ; ii. 11. 1-271, 484-92, 638-44, 729-37; iii. 11. 1-383, 428-49 ; iv. 11. 419-544 ; v. 11. 1-375 ; vi. 11. 390-500 ; vii. 11. 244-315 ; viii. 11. 1-77.

1891. Transactions | of the | Gaelic Society | of Inverness. | Vol. XVI. | 1889-90. | Clann nan Gaidheal an Guaillean a Cheile. | Printed for the Gaelic Society of Inverness, |. . . .1891.

Sin. by 5J in. Pp. xvi+329 + [l]. On pp. 122-48 is printed a paper, ' Some Letters from the pen of Ewen Maclachlan, Old Aberdeen, with Notes,' read before the Gaelic Society, on 26 Feb., 1890, by the Rev. John Sinclair, B.D., Rannoch. The letters bear dates from 1816 to 1820.

. P. J. ANDERSON. TJnirersity Library, Aberdeen.

ST. ANTHONY OF VIENNE (10 S. xi. 47 r 96). Allow me to thank ST. SWITHIN for his replies to my queries. His surmise "' that there never was ' no sich person ' so styled lay mortals " as St. Anthony of Vienne seems to be absolutely disproved by a reference in ' The Encyclopaedia Britan- nica,' article ' Monachism,' section ' Military Orders,' where I read of the knightly Order of St. Anthony of Vienne, founded in Dau- phine in 1096.

So these queries still await answer :

1. Who is this St. Anthony, arid what his story ?

2. Why should a hall be dedicated to him, or be founded by his orders, in the city of York ? GEORGE AUSTEN.

The Residence, York.

ST. SWITHIN is so far right : there was strictly no St. Anthony of Vienne. St. Anthony of Egypt was invoked for the protection of man and beast against plague