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CELTIC MYTH AND SAGA.

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Report of Research during the Years
1892 and 1893.

1. Todd Lectures, No. IV. Cath Ruis na Rig, with Preface, Translation, and Indices, by E. Hogan, S.J.

2. The Tumult and Inscribed Stones at New Grange, Dowth, and Knowth, by G. Coffey.

3. Silva Gadelica (i-xxxi). A collection of Tales in Irish, with Extracts illustrating Persons and Places. Edited from MSS. and translated by Standish Hayes O'Grady.

4. Nennius Vindicatus. Ueber Entstehung, Geschichte und Quellen der Historia Brittonum, von Heinrich Zimmer.

5. Love-Songs of Connaught. Collected, edited, and translated by Douglas Hyde.

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IT is but fitting that Folk-Lore, the one review published in England which concerns itself with the history and literature of the Celtic races, should pay its tribute of sorrowful respect to the memory of two veterans of Celtic study departed within the last year.

Hector Maclean was the right-hand man of Campbell of Islay in his admirably achieved task of collecting and preserving the oral literature of the Gaelic Highlanders. He had all the qualifications of a great collector, intimate knowledge of the people, mastery of and sympathy with their modes of thought and expression, keen enthusiasm, and untiring patience. No higher praise can be given him than that he was worthy to be Campbell's lieutenant.^[1]

Hector Maclean was a collector. Geheimrath Albert Schulz, better known by his pseudonym of San Marte, was a book-scholar. He shared with Maclean a keen and

1. A full and sympathetic account of Hector Maclean appeared in the Celtic Monthly for March 1893. To this I would refer the reader who wishes to know more of a singularly fine and brave character.