LACHLAN MACBEAN.—MacBean’s _Lessons in Gaelic_ has been perhaps the most popular of all the helps provided for the student anxious to acquire the language. The author has for many years been a successful journalist, but in the midst of his professional duties he has found time to produce some remarkable works, particularly translations from such standard authors as Dugald Buchanan, etc. Mr MacBean is equally at home in the use of the Gaelic and English languages, and it ought to be said that his translations have the desirable quality of being readable in their English dress. Perhaps the fact ought not to be omitted that his works have been published by a gentleman who has shown considerable enterprise for many years in connection with Gaelic publications—Mr John Noble of Inverness. The list of those known as fair writers of Gaelic prose is now well-nigh exhausted. Mackellar, Dugald Macphail, and others whose names appear in other chapters might also be described as prose writers. Among others the following also may be mentioned as having used a Gaelic pen with varying successes:— _Rev. Neil Dewar_ of Kingussie is an able and accurate Gaelic scholar, who helped in the publication of an edition of the Gaelic Bible with references. The _Rev. D. M. Connell_ is the author of a little treatise on astronomy published more than forty years ago. _Dr D. Black_ of Poolewe published a booklet on medicine and nursing in 1877 which is well written and full of valuable knowledge and guidance. _Dr Morrison_ of Edinburgh, son of the sacred bard of Harris, wrote for some time a good deal for the columns of _The Gael_. The _Rev. John MacRury_ has supplied in excellent style much of the Gaelic Supplement to _Life and Work_, the organ of the Established Church. He has also written well versions of some ancient Gaelic tales. _Dr John Clerk_ has exercised his able and ingenious pen in verse and prose products of various kinds. _Dr Hugh Cameron Gillies_, another gentleman of the same profession, author of a small Grammar and Text-book, is at home in the use of the Gaelic language, and has edited some poetry and music. _Malcolm Macfarlan_, the author of a little interesting work of Gaelic Phonetics, has written a good deal in Gaelic with care and fair accuracy. The _Rev. James Dewar_, late of Oa, Islay, produced quite a unique little work, and one of some ability—a Gaelic reply to the celebrated “Claim and Protest” of the Free Church of Scotland. * * * * *