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The Highland Monthly.
NOTES.
The December number of the Folklore quarterly contains an
important contribution from Dr Whitley Stokes. This consists of
an edition of the "Dinnshenchas,"or mediaeval Irish topographical
legends, as contained in an Oxford Gaelic MS. The legends are
very interesting, and Dr Stokes has done the translations admir-
ably.
The dinner of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, held on the 31st
January, was a great success. It was presided over by K.ev. Dr
Noiman Macleod, a name fraught with honour and affection
wherever Gaelic is spoken. As it vvas the 21st, or Majority,
Dinner,*a special effort was made to get as many as possible of
the members who were at the first dinner to be present ; and in
this the characteristic energy of the Secretary was successful.
Mr Neil Macleod's new edition of his CIai sack an Doire is
half again as large as the original volume. The book, which is
handsomely got up, and which contains a portrait of the author, is
published by Archibald Sinclair, of Glasgow. Of course the work
contains all the author's poems up to date, and there are several
good renderings into English, done mostly by that most deft of
translators, our good friend " Fionn." Four Gaelic tales are also
ajjpended to the volume, composed in the best and raciest style of
the excellent Gaelic spoken in Skye. Of the poetry we need
not here speak ; the public has already passed its favouraljle
verdict on the majority of the pieces here published, and the newpoems
are not inferior to the old.