The Gaels of Glasgow more recently formed a Gaelic Society, of which Mr Magnus Maclean, M.A. of Glasgow University, is the admirable secretary. This Society has made a good beginning with the publication of the first volume of its Transactions lately published. Perth and other large towns have also their Gaelic Societies in this country, and if we look across the Atlantic we find quite a large number of them in Canada. The Gaelic Society of Toronto, of which a distinguished native of Islay—Mr David Spence—has been a moving spirit, is in a very flourishing condition. * * * * * In the great political change which has just come over the dreams of Highlanders the Gaelic language has been of the most undoubted service. Indeed it is through its judicious use as a political weapon that this change was brought to a successful pass in 1886. It was the thousands of the Gaelic Land-Law Reform manifestoes sent forth from London in 1883-4, that organised the Highlands and Islands for the brilliant Parliamentary triumph of 1885, by which the first practical fruits of the Gaelic revival were reaped. And here it may be interesting to preserve a copy of one of these manifestoes, which played so prominent a part in bringing about the Imperial recognition of Highland rights. The following prose paragraphs may be referred to as a specimen of the Gaelic of the period as well as a monument of the services rendered by the use of Gaelic in an important national crisis:— A GAELIC LAND-LAW REFORM MANIFESTO. “_Comunn Gaidhealach Lunnuinn airson Lagh an Fhearainn Aihleasachadh._ “Chuireadh an Comunn so air chois an toiseach air son gu’m biodh Teachdairean Rioghail air an cur feadh Gàidhealtachd agus Eileana na h-Alba a rannsachadh mu chor agus mu ghearan na Tuadh Bhig anns na ceàrnaibh sin; mar an ceudna air son atharrachaidhean a dheanamh air Laghan an Fhearainn, a shocruicheadh gu dainghean Mail Chothromach, Greim Seasmhach airan Fhearann, agus Pàidheadh air son Athleasachaidhean maille ri leithid d o Ath-shuidheachadh air an Fhearann ’sa bhiodh feumail air son math an t-Sluaigh. “Air an dara là do Sheptember 1884, choinnich Fir-ionaid o na Comuinn Ghàidhealach a tha air son Lagh an Fhearainn Ath-leasachadh ann an Co-Labhairt ann an Inbher-feothrain; agus dh’aontaich iad air a bhonn a leanas mar Chlar-innsidh air son a’ Chomuinn Ghàidhealaich a tha air son Lagh an Fhearainn Ath-leasachadh: “Gu’m biodh Cuirt Fearainn le comasan breith agus riaghlaidh air a stéidheachadh air son Gàidhealtachd agus Eileana na h-Alba air son gach ceist a dh’éireas eadar na h-uachdarain agus an Tuath a shocrachadh; agus an coitcheannas a dh’òrdachadh gu’m biodh am fearann air a roinn agus air a chur am feum air son math an t-sluaigh. “Làn ughdarras gu bhi aig a’ Chùirt— ‘1mh.—A shuidheachadh nam màl a bhios air am pàidheadh, agus nan cumhnantan air am bi am fearann air a ghabhail.