It is impossible to mention even a tithe of the names of our better dialect writers. In Scotland alone there is a large number, some of the more recent bearing such well-known names as those of R.L. Stevenson, George Macdonald (Aberdeen), J.M. Barrie (Forfarshire), and S.R. Crockett (Galloway). Dean Ramsay's humorous _Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character_ must not be passed over. For Ireland we have William Carleton's _Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry_, and the novels by Lever and Lover. Cumberland has its delightful stories of _Joe and the Geologist_, and _Bobby Banks' Bodderment_. Cornwall has its _Tales_, by J.T. Tregellas. Devon can boast of R.D. Blackmore, Dorset of Hardy and Barnes, and Lincoln of Tennyson. The literature of Lancashire is vast; it suffices to mention John Collier (otherwise Tim Bobbin), author of _Tummus and Meary_, Ben Brierley, John Byrom, J.P. Morris, author of _T' Lebby Beck Dobby_, and Edwin Waugh, prose author and poet. _Giles's Trip to London_, and the other sketches by the same author, are highly characteristic of Norfolk. Northamptonshire has its poet, John Clare; and Suffolk can boast of Robert Bloomfield. According to her own statement, printed in the Preface (p. viii) to the E.D.S. _Bibliographical List_, George Eliot, when writing _Adam Bede_, had in mind "the talk of N. Staffordshire and the neighbouring part of Derbyshire"; whilst, in _Silas Marner_, "the district imagined is in N. Warwickshire." Southey wrote _T' Terrible Knitters e' Dent_ in the Westmoreland dialect. Yorkshire, like Lancashire, has a large literature, to which the _E.D.D._ Booklist can alone do justice. SCOTTISH (Group 3): ABERDEEN. The following extract is from Chapter XVIII of _Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk_, by W. Alexander, LL.D., fifteenth edition, Edinburgh, 1908. One special peculiarity of the dialect is the use of _f_ for _wh_, as in _fat_, what, _fan_, when. The extract describes how the speaker and his friends went to hear a bellman make a proclamation about the appointment of a new minister to a church.