other countries also. But it is of com* of special value for Scottish history, and for the understanding of the conditions which preceded the sudden And complete ruin that befell the Scottish church in the upheaval of the sixteenth otntary. It ii unfortunate that a few ah"ps, which the author would himself have doubtless corrected if hii pxoof-theett had had the advantage of his own cveful revision, have escaped the vigilance of those to whom the work of reading the book for the pns* hai been

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... trusted. He would hardly hare been satisfied with a statement that Gregory DC confirmed in 1249 a grant made to th« abbey of Iindores; and th« necessary correction would probably have led hinr to refer anew to his own edition of the Iindores cartulary, and to see that the evidence which it supplies doei not really suggest that it tu only in 1S49 or 1300 that the 1 Keledci* of Brechin ceased to be known by that name and began to be designated as * canons'. Nor would he have been likely to leave uncorrected the description of Saner de Quency as earl of "Whiten, though that title may have seemed more f*TmH«T and more tikely to occur iu Scotland than that which really belonged to the parson in qoestaon. But such slips an infrequent, and generally of slight moment. They can hardly be ssid at all to detract from the real value of the book, either as a work of historical importance or as a 'memorial of a diHgent and careful scholar, worthy to be ranked-and he would have desired no higher praise-with Innes and Grub and Joseph Bobartaon among the workers in the field of Scottish lustory. H. A. WILSOS.