The war has given a decided impetus to the general trade in tartans. The demand from the regulars remains practically stationary, as the number of men wearing the Highland uniform is always the same. Among Scottish Volunteer regiments, however, the kilt is coming more and more into favour, and quite a number of additional “Highland companies” have been formed recently. The 6th V. B. Gordon Highlanders is the only battalion in the Highland Brigade unprovided with the national garb, the Government having, owing to “financial difficulties,” declined to supply the dress. The honorary colonel, Mr. J. Gordon Smith, has, however, now given the regiment £1500 to enable the men to wear their territorial uniform, and it is almost certain that the Government will supply the regiment with the kilt in the future. But it is from fashionable civil life that the bulk of the increased demand comes. The headquarters of the kilt-making industry—for it is an industry—are in Glasgow, but the principal market is in London. The demand in the Metropolis for the Highland dress is very extensive, and the biggest firm of Glasgow manufacturers are kept continually employed fulfilling orders from the South. The favourite tartans are, naturally, those of the kilted regiments, but the fashionable Highland dress consists of the kilt with an ordinary dinner jacket above it—the full outfit would be too Highland for London drawing-rooms. In Scotland the formation of clan societies has, in the cities, revived interest in the different tartans, but in the real home of the kilt, the fastnesses of the Highlands, the dress is practically extinct. A few old men wear it, as well as some of the better class residents, visitors sometimes wear it, while retainers wear it as a sort of livery; but among the people themselves it is, to all intents and purposes, obsolete. The garb of old Gaul has ceased to be the at-home dress of the Highlander, and become the evening dress of the fashionable who would ape a Highland connection, and the mark of the Highland wanderer, who far from home stands by home customs out of patriotic love for his home land. We may regret the turn of events, but there is no use blinking simple facts.—W. L. M. Index. Aberdeen, 171, 226 Aberdeenshire, pipes in, 153 “Abide with me” at Omdurman, 154 _A Cholla mo run_, 92, 307, 311, 312 Africa, engravings found in, 31 _A Ghlas Mheur_, 76, 363 Aiken, William, piper, 162 Airdrie, 285 _Albyn’s Anthology_, 321, 340 Aldershot, 145 Alexander, G. W., 138 Alexandria, a Mac Crimmon in, 261 Alister Mac Cholla Chiotaich, 311 Allan, James, piper, 189 Alloway’s Auld Haunted Kirk, 223 Alma, pipes at, 128 Altimarlach, battle of, 337 American War, pipes in, 133 _A mhic Iain mhic Sheumais_, 363 Amoaful, battle of, 133 _Am port leathach_, 352 Anderson, Wm., 173 Antiquaries, Scottish Society of, 116 Antoninus, the Wall of, 15 Antwerp, pageant in, 225