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The Hi^hlajid Monthly.
Dr Stokes, Kuno Meyer, Professor Rhys, &c. The
quarterly journal of Folklore is also to be honourably men-
tioned in this matter. In the March number Professor
Rhys discussed Manx Folklore and the customs of first-
footing ; in the June number was a Gaelic folk-tale (The
Baker of Beauly) from Mr Macbain : and in the September
issue Mr Nutt discussed ably and admirably the progress
made during the last two years in Celtic Myth and Saga.
The Revue Celtique still pursues its learned way under the
editorship of M. D' Arbois de Jubainville, and Professor
O'Growney makes the Gaelic Journal a periodical at once
learned and popular. Of transactions and proceedings of
societies we may note that several important articles have
appeared in the pages of the Royal Society of Antiquaries
of Ireland (notably on new Ogams), and in the Archaeo-
logia Cambrensis. German philological periodicals deal
largely with Celtic, and important articles on Celtic
grammar and derivation have appeared in Kuhn's Zeit-
schrift from the pens of Zimmer and Thurneysen.
In regard to philology, besides those above-mentioned,
Dr Whitley Stokes has published some important articles
and papers—in the Revue Celtique, in Bezzenberger's Beit-
rage, and especially in the Transactions of the Philological
Society. Professor Strachan, of Owen's College, Manchester,
has been very active in Celtic matters ; and his
paper on " Compensatory Lengthening of Vowels in Irish,"
is the most important contribution made to Gaelic
philology during the past year. M. Loth has published a
work on the Latin words in the Brittonic Languages : he
uses the word Brittonic to denote what Professor Rhys
means by the awkward word Brythonic—that is, the lan-
guages of Brittany, Cornwall, and Wales. We may remark
that the name Britannia has been subjected to some investi-
gation by Professors Rhys and De Jubainville. They both
think that the Greek Pretannice and the Gaelic Cruithne,
which are allied by root, are to be separated from the name
Britain, which, they think, arose from that of a (supposed?)