If we follow the Highlander across the ocean we find him there as fond of poetry and song as he was in his original home. The REV. D. B. BLAIR, of Canada, has contributed a good deal to Gaelic literature. He is the author of many original poems of much merit, one on the Falls of Niagara being particularly excellent. He has translated parts of Virgil’s Æneid from the Latin. It was said some time ago that he had ready for the press a Gaelic grammar and a new Gaelic version of the Psalms. The REV. A. M. SINCLAIR, of Nova Scotia, is also a worshipper of the muse. He, indeed, belongs to a family of bards. The Gaels on this side are particularly indebted to Maclean Sinclair for his valuable contributions to their literature, his last two volumes (1890) being a handsome addition to the catalogue of good Highland books But it is not in America alone that we find the cultivation of the Gaelic muse. If we go to New Zealand we find there FARQUHAR MACDONNELL, once of Plockton, a composer of considerable genius, and one of whose songs has become a popular favourite. It is not only in Canada and New Zealand but also in Australia that the Gaelic muse is kept alive. Here are verses of a pretty poem in Gaelic and English by the Rev. A. Cameron, a native of Lochaber, from that broad continent in the Antipodes. The author holds communion with the Ree waterfall, Nether-Lochaber, in a dream:— I gaze on thee thou wondrous fall! As I had done long years ago; I travelled far on duty’s call Since last I saw thy currents flow. In days gone by, when joy was young, ’Twas my delight to sit me here; When thy grave voice, so full and strong, A pleasant song was to mine ear. Methinks I hear thy waters say, In greeting accents bathed in tears, “Where did thy wandering footsteps stray These many long and weary years? “I missed thee on the rocky brink, Thy youthful shadow on the pool, When thou would’st say as thou would’st think Thy daily lesson for the school: “When none but I was to thee near Save He who guides our weary ways, To whom creation all is dear, As joining in His glory’s praise.” We have thus seen that throughout India, America, and Australasia we can find singers and composers of Gaelic songs, representing leal-hearted sons of the Highlands, who have nobly served their country, their people, and their God. [Illustration: (decorative end-of-chapter icon)] CHAPTER XVI. SACRED BARDS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. “O happy saints! rejoice and sing! He quickly comes, your Lord and King!” —W. D. MACLAGAN, D.D., _Abp. of York_.