The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

6^^ The Highland Monthly.
Here he tells us that his morals have not changed, nor has
he forsaken evil, for, in mid-life, gluttony entered his body.
A third series of " Irish Texte " has appeared, edited by
Professor Windisch and Dr Stokes, where the latter edits
the interesting story of Cormac's sojourn in the Land of
Promise, Professor D'Arbois de Jubainville has issued, as
volume fifth of his Course of Celtic Literature, a work
entitled " L' Epopee Celtique en Irlande," where he gathers
together, in a French translation, the most important of
ancient Gaelic sagas, dealing with Cuchulinn and his epoch
especially. The Deirdre story is particularly complete,
and the Scottish Gaelic version is rendered into French.
It is a pity that no similar work exists in English ; for,
with the exception of Joyce's " Celtic Romances," which
are more modern and rather " magazinish" in type, there
is no book that gives anything like a complete account of
the old myths and legends of Gaelic literature.
J. F.
Campbell of Islay intended to do this in a companion
volume to " Leabhar na Feinne," but death intervened.