asking for information as
to the number of churches in which Gaelic was preached. The circulars
were returned, the result being "that out of 3395 places of worship of
all denominations in Scotland, 461 had Gaelic services once-a-day in the
following proportions--Established Church, 235; Free Church, 166; Catholic
Chapels, 36; Baptists, 12; Episcopalians, 9; Congregationalists, 3."

The first paper in the volume is a very interesting account, by Dr
Charles Mackay, the poet, of "The Scotch in America." We give the
following extract:--

I was invited to dine with a wealthy gentleman of my own name.
There were present on that occasion 120 other Scotchmen, and
most of them wore the Highland dress. My host had a piper
behind the chair playing the old familiar strains of the pipes.
The gentleman told me, in the course of the evening, that his
father was a poor cottar in Sutherlandshire. "My mother," said
he, "was turned out upon the moor on a dark cold night, and
upon that moor I was born." My friend's family afterwards went
to America, and my friend became a "dry" merchant, or as you
would say in Scotland, a draper. I said to him, seeing that his
position had so improved, "Well, I suppose you do not bear any
grudge against the people by whose agency your family were
turned upon the moor." "No," he replied, "I cannot say that I
bear them any grudge, but at the same time I cannot say that I
forgive them. If my position has improved, it is by my own
perseverance, and not by their good deeds or through their
agency." In every great city of Canada--Toronto, Kingstown,
Montreal, New Brunswick, St John's, Nova Scotia, and in almost
every town and village, you will find many Scotchmen; in fact,
in the large towns they are almost as numerous as in Edinburgh
and Inverness. You will see a Highland name staring you in the
face in any or every direction. If you ask for the principal
merchant or principal banker, you will be almost sure to find
that he's a Scotchman; and no matter in what part of the world
your fellow countrymen may be cast, they keep up the old
manners and customs of their mother country. They never forget
the good old times of "Auld lang syne;" they never forget the
old songs they sung, the old tunes they played, nor the old
reels and dances of Scotland.

The Scotch, especially in Canada, take the G