the part of the proof reader. The punctuation has been most remissly attended to, and in not a few cases inconsistencies in spelling have been allowed to pass. Should a new and cheaper edition be called for-as we sincerely hope there will, the price of the present being much too high for ordinary Highland readers —we trust the faults to which we have referred will be carefully excluded, and the book thus rendered in the minutest detail as correct as it is substantially true and classic, and outwardly handsome.

THE EDITORSHIP.-Mr. Alexander Mackenzie, who, eleven years ago, started the Celtic Magazine, and conducted it ever since, has found it necessary, in consequence of increasing responsibilities in other directions, to retire from the Editorship on the appearance of this number. He finds that the editorship of the Scottish Highlander, along with his other literary work, is as much as he is able to overtake, and he is therefore obliged to hand over the editorial responsibility of the Magazine to his good friend, Mr. Alexander Macbain, M.A., F.S.A. Scot., admitted to be one of the very best Celtic scholars living, and who, at the same time, stands high for general scholarship. Mr. Macbain has taken his degree "with honours" at the University of Aberdeen. It is with very considerable reluctance that Mr. Mackenzie gives up his official position as editor of the Magazine, and in so doing break up the agreeable relations into which that position brought him with its many contributors, among whom are included the best known Celtic scholars of our time. As Mr. Mackenzie, however, is proprietor, as his firm continue publishers, and as he hopes to be an occasional contributor to the pages of the Magazine under the new Editor, he feels that the happy relationships of the past with contributors and readers will not be altogether broken. He now retires full of gratitude to all-contributors and subscribers-who had so large a share in making the Celtic Magazine the unprecedented success which it has become over all former publications in the same field.