Though printing made its first inroad on the Gaelic language as early as 1567, it is characteristic of the race that the cream of the literature only found type within the nineteenth century. After the early editions of Ossian, Peter Grant, and Rob Donn, the following may be quoted as the most noteworthy literary books that have appeared in the last hundred years from the Highlands, namely: Dr. Norman Macleod’s _Caraid nan Gaidheal_; Mackenzie’s _Beauties of Gaelic Poetry_, 1841; Campbell’s _West Highland Tales_, 1860–62; Dr. Clerk’s _Ossian_, 1870; Campbell’s _Leabhar na Feinne_, 1872; Sinclair’s _Oranaiche_, 1876–79; Nicolson’s _Gaelic Proverbs_, 1882; Henry Whyte’s _Celtic Garland_, 1880–81; _Celtic Lyre_, 1883–95; Mary Mackellar’s _Poems and Songs_, 1881; Neil Macleod’s _Clarsach an Doire_, 1883; Dr. Cameron’s _Reliquiæ Celticæ_, 1892–94; Dr. Nigel Macneill’s _The Literature of the Highlanders_, 1892; and Alexander Carmichael’s _Carmina Gadelica_, 1900. In addition to the purely literary works, there are three other classes of Gaelic books, intimately associated with the history of the language, which have received considerable attention from the printer, and which are worthy of our notice here. These are School-books, Grammars, and Dictionaries. Of school-books there were three series that ran through many editions during the first half of last century, namely, the Gaelic Society’s School series, the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge series, and the General Assembly’s series. Besides ordinary class books, portions of Scripture, especially from Proverbs, Psalms, Job, and the Gospels were printed for use as reading books in schools. The first of the above series dates from 1811, the second from 1815, and the third from 1826. John Reid apparently never heard of Fenius Farsaid or the “Uraicept na n-Éigeas,”[35] or of the other MS. fragments, for he has the following interesting modern account of Gaelic Grammars. “The first attempt that we have on record of a Celtic Grammar was one written by Florence Gray, a monk who was born in Humond about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century; but we have never been able to find a copy of it, or ascertain if it was printed. It is probable that if it was printed it appeared about 1620, as we know that he was living in Dublin in 1630. “In 1639 Tobias Stapleton, an Irish priest, published at Louvain a small quarto Catechism for the use of the Irish students on the Continent, in parallel columns, Latin and English. To the end of the Catechism is added a small tract in Latin and Irish, entitled, ‘Modus perutilis legendi linguam Hibernicam.’