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The Scottish Antiqnar\.
would care to wade through it he has given us a well-selected epitome
which cannot fail to interest the reader, and which is instructive as showing
the knowledge possessed by an intelligent ecclesiastic of the thirteenth
century, who wrote with fluency and with honesty of purpose. The various
subjects dealt with are Science, Manners, Medicine, Geography and Natural
History. Mr. Steele adds a useful bibliography and glossary, and supplies
an index. The work is sent out by Messrs. Elliot Stock & Co., in their
usual appropriate style. We give at page 77, note 541, an extract from the
work, being Bartholomew's description of Scotland.
History and Genealogy ofthe Bulloch family', by Joseph G. Bulloch,M. D.,
Savannah, Ga., Braid & Hutton. Dr. Bulloch has long been and still is
seeking for information about his ancestors in the female as well as the
male line. We must regard the volume lately issued by him as a first
instalment of a family history. As such it must manifestly be incomplete,
and further research will also show that some details are incorrect. He
occasionally falls into the common but dangerous mistake of jumping at
conclusions. As when he asserts (p. 33) that his ancestor the Reverend
Archibald Stobo, of the Darien Expedition, and then of Georgia, was '
of
Stobo Castle,' which certainly was not the
Stobo of that ilk in existence at the time.
case, there being no family of
The arms attributed to Stobo
are said to be registered in the Lyon Office they do not appear in the
Lyon King's recently issued work. Apart from these and other such like
blemishes the little book will not be without its use, and we wish Dr.
Bulloch every success in collecting such information as may induce
him to print not only an enlarged, but a corrected edition of his present
work.
Peel its Meaning and Derivation, by George Neilson, F.S.A., Scot.
This paper is privately printed from the Transactions of the Glasgow
Archaeological Society. We recommend our readers who have access to
the printed Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society to read this
contribution to the right understanding of old Scottish phraseology. Peel
towers are often mentioned. Mr. Neilson helps us to understand what the
Peel really was.
An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Bethunes of the Island of
Sky. Reprint, London, 1893. The original work was attributed to the
Reverend Thomas Whyte, minister of Liberton, and was printed in
pamphlet form in 1778. The editor of the reprint, Mr. Alfred A. Bethune-
Baker, has done well to reprint this interesting and rare work, which deals
with a branch of the well-known family of Bethune-Beaton or Beton. It
will be news to some of our readers to find that the Fifeshire Bethunes
established themselves not only in the Isle of Skye, but '
in other places of
the North Country besides those in Skye.' The editor concludes his
prefatorial note by saying, '
I shall be grateful for information which will
bring down any of the genealogies mentioned in these pages to a more
recent period, and shall gladly correspond with any one interested in the
subject.' We hope our readers will assist Mr. Bethune-Baker. whose
address is 12 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.
Notices of other books received are unavoidably postponed to next
number.