As to the rest of this portion of the work, while whatever had no connection with Highland history has been expunged, much new matter has been added in order to make the general narrative COMPLETE and AUTHENTIC. When, at a later period of their history, the Highlanders become a potent element in the settlement of many great disputes, it has been sought to make the reader understand clearly the part they thus took in the stirring and momentous transactions of the times. As examples of these we need only mention here the CIVIL WARS in which MONTROSE so often led on the Highland army to victory: the Revolution disputes, culminating in KILLIECRANKIE: the unfortunate insurrections of ’15 and ’45, which, but for the romantic enthusiasm of the Highlanders, would never have been even commenced. In writing these chapters ample use has been made of the various club-publications above referred to, the latest of which, THE BOOK OF DEER, issued by the Spalding Club, edited by Dr. Stuart, has proved of great service in throwing light on the EARLY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION of the Highlands, as well as on the STATE and CONSTITUTION of the EARLY SCOTTISH CHURCH. Among modern Scottish historians and antiquarians whose labours have been taken advantage of in this part of the work, we may mention the names of George Chalmers, W. F. Skene, Joseph Robertson, Daniel Wilson, Mr. Gregory, John Hill Burton, E. W. Robertson, James Logan, Cosmo Innes, George Grub, Dr. Maclauchlan, and Colonel Forbes-Leslie: this last gentleman has been kind enough to place at our disposal some of the cuts which adorn his valuable work, _The Early Races of Scotland_. Besides these, books and documents, ancient and modern, too numerous to detail here, have been consulted. To the GAELIC LANGUAGE and LITERATURE, which, in the old work, possibly from lack of material, were treated in rather a summary manner, a prominent place has been given. Since the publication of _The Dean of Lismore’s Book_, and other works on this interesting subject, there can be no complaint of lack of material; and so much importance do the publishers attach to the literature of the Highlands, that they have entered into an arrangement with the Rev. Thomas Maclauchlan, LL.D., F.S.A.S.--one of the editors of _The Dean of Lismore’s Book_, and one of the most eminent living Gaelic scholars--to write an entirely new account of this subject, into which will be introduced copious examples of genuine old GAELIC POETRY. In the course of the work will be given the late PROFESSOR WILSON’S celebrated ESSAY ON HIGHLAND SCENERY, of which the copyright belongs to the publishers. PART II.--THE HISTORY OF THE HIGHLAND CLANS.