tribute to it--a bursary for theological students
sprung from parents of education--whose parents had been
ministers, or who themselves had taken a degree in arts. That
would tend to encourage the introduction of a superior class of
clergymen. He wished to say nothing against the present
ministers. He knew they were excellent men, but he thought
their sons would be, in many cases, superior to themselves if
they took to the ministry. He was sorry they did not take to it
more frequently, and he would be glad if this Society offered
them some encouragement.

Two learned papers appear from the Rev. John Macpherson, Lairg, and Dr
M'Lauchlan, Edinburgh--the one on "The Origin of the Indo-European
Languages," and the other--"Notices of Brittany." Space will not now
allow us to give extracts long enough to give any idea of the value and
interest of these papers, or of the one immediately following--a
metrical translation into English of "Dan an Deirg"--by Lachlan Macbean,
Inverness. We shall return to them in a future number.

The Rev. A. C. Sutherland gives one of the best written and most
interesting papers in the volume on the "Poetry of Dugald Buchanan, the
Rannach Bard." The following is a specimen of Mr Sutherland's treatment
of the poet, and of his own agreeable style:--

At the time when the great English critic was oracularly
declaring that the verities of religion were incapable of
poetic treatment, there was a simple Highlander, quietly
composing poems, which, of themselves, would have upset the
strange view, otherwise sufficiently absurd. But in all
justice, we must say that many, very many, both of Gaelic and
English poets, who have attempted to embody religious
sentiments in poetic forms, have, by their weak efforts,
exposed themselves, unarmed, to the attacks of those who would
exclude religion from the sphere of the imagination. All good
poetry, in the highest sense, deals with, and appeals to, what
is universal and common to all men....

It is frequently charged upon the Celt, that in religion as in
other matters, emotion, inward feeling in the shape of awe,
adoration, undefined reverence, are more eagerly sought, and
consequently more honoured, than the practice of the simple
external virtues, of which feeling should be the ministers and
fountains. Whether this accusation holds good generally, or