The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

64 Ihe Highland Monthly.
the Saxon or other conquerors of the Celts. Mr Alfred
Nutt discusses the connections of the Gaelic story " Goldtree
and Silver-tree."
Mr Nairne, of the Northern Chronicle, has in the press a
work dealing with " Highland Floods of the Nineteenth
Century." The work promises to be an exceedingly
interesting and important one, and Mr Nairne is sparing
neither trouble nor expense to make his book both
complete and concise. It is to be fully illustrated.
Dr Whitley Stokes has reproduced his paper on the
Irish Annals, where he deals with the great " Pictish
Question," in a German periodical called Bezzenberger's
Beitrdge. He has made several additions, one of which
being the acceptance of the termination four in Balfour,
Pitfour, &c., as of Pictish origin, and related to the Welsh
pazvr, pasture, a derivation suggested by one of the editors
of this magazine, and acknowledged as such by Dr Stokes.