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XIV INTRODUCTION.
translation of the Dean's Book was a most arduous task, and,
considering the state of Celtic scholarship at the time, a marvel
of accuracy and learning. His other chief works are "Celtic
Gleanings," and the "Early Scottish Church," while he also wrote
the history of Gaelic Literature in Keltie's History of the Highlands,
a piece of work which is unique in its excellence. He was
also engaged on the revision of the translation of the Gaelic Bible.
Dr Maclauchlan was chief of our Gaelic Society in 1880, and. be-
sides doing his duty as that year's chief, his name appears often
in our Volumes as the author of papers delivered before the Society
and printed in our Transactions.
In Gaelic literature, considerable activity and interest are
manifested. Mr Lachlan Macbean, a well-known member of our
body, besides translating into beautiful English verse the poems of
Dugald Buchanan, has returned to his old love of music, and has
issued a selection of the most popular Gaelic psalm tunes; while
Mr Henx'y Whyte is still adding to his " Celtic Lyre." Rev. Mr
Cameron's first volume of the Scottish Celtic Review has been com-
pleted by the issue of number four. And while these words are
being penned, Mrs Mackellar's translation of the Queen's " More
Leaves " has been handed in to us, fresh from the press. Who
but the queen of our modern Gaelic poets should translate our
Queen's book %
In general Celtic scholarship and literature there are one or
two events of importance to record. The Revue Celtique, the
most important of Celtic periodicals, devoted as it is to Celtic
philology, antiquities, and the editing of texts and MSS., is now
edited l)y M. D'Arbois de Jubainville, one of our foremost Celtic
philologists, M. Gaidoz, who started and who so ably conducted
the Revue for fifteen years, having sought well-earned repose.
Mr Stokes has published in the last volume of the Philological
Society's Transactions two treatises of vast importance to Celtic
Philology. The first work— over one hundred pages in length
—diHcu.sHcs in a concise form " Celtic Declension." It is undoubtedly
the most important contribution that has yet been made
to the sulject since the time of Zeuss. It contains not only Old