Blair Collection > Celtic monthly > Volume 5, 1897

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THE CELTIC MONTHLY.
TO CORRKSPONDENTS. l/ti, Assembly 2/6, -which can be had from the Hon
All Co,n.n,.ni,-ations, on^ literavv and business Secretary, John Mackay, 9 Blvthswood Drive.
matters, should be addressed to the Editor, Mr. JOHTI Glasgow.
MACKAY, 9 Blythswood Drive, Glasgow. ^^^^ ChaTTAN ASSOCIATION.— The third Annual
'~®~' Gathering of this Association was held in the
TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION.— The CELTIC (jrand Hotel, Glasgow, on 22nd December— Mr. A.
MONTHLY will be sent, post free, to any part of the Mackintosh Mackintosh, London, the clan historian,
United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and all in the chair. There was a large attendance, among
countries in the Postal Union-far one year, 4^. those present being Captain Mackintosh, President,
^ __^ Messrs. D. A. S. Mackintosh, Vice-Fresident,
~ ^~^ ^^ ~^ W. G. Davidson, Secretary, Andrew Mackintosh,
The Celtic Monthly. secretary, Edinburgh branch, etc. The chairman
FEBRUARY, 1897. ill the course of his interesting address referred to
^ ^ ^^ __-__ ,^ the history of the great Clan Chattan Confederacy,
" ^^^ o r* T E l>J T s. to the clan feuds and the famous conflict on the
„ „ ^ „ „ _ __ ~ , ..,, ,„,.i o, North Inch of Perth, and finally to the question of
A M M'Altjowie, M.D., F.R.S.E., Stoke-os-Trest (with plate), bl ,, i ■ r i • t, • i i i • j r i\t i ■ 4. u c
■^■" ',' ' , ^ ^^ the chiefship, which he claimed for Mackintosh of
RONDEAU— On Visiting Bankockburn (poem), . . - si ""= ^ '^T ^^' n i • ht 1 ■ 4. v, j i\/r wr r-
I (11 St ated) ... 82 Mackintosh. Captain Mackmtoah and Mr. W. G.
Oorx Xhland Tssociation; .■.';..: 81 Davidson also addressed the meeting, after which a
Thomas llACKAV, LARGS (with plate), - - - - - B5 most enjoyable evening was spent.
HiQiiLASD Heather (poem), 85 Captain James Mackay of Tkowbridgk,
The ST0R.M Bride, - se President of the Clan Mackay Society, has just
ciuR Jiusic.iL Page-canain NAN Gaidheal, - . - 88 been swoHi in as a JusticB of the Peacc for Wiltshire.
To OUR Readers, - - 9» q^^j^ hj^j^ ^y Ma.tor-GenERAL C. S. Thoma-
lliNOR Septs of Clan Chattan (illustrated), - - - 91 ^^j,_p.^^^ j, ^f this most interesting and valuable
SAI.NT KEssoo (Illustrated), ■>- ^.^Hgction of Pibrochs wiU be in the hands of
RUAR..IDH5IACR.™, - ■ " • ■ • subscribers in a few days. It will consist of the
JiiHN MacGregor, Craigie, Perth (with pKatc), - • - sio i ■ i c u u
,. „v..,„ i\\\„^tr.,t.A\ 06 notation, examples, and sixteen pages of pibroch
Flora Macdonald, (iliustrateo), 'o . , , , , ■ , xi. mu Z. j.i
Mr Run (poem) • - - ■ . ' ')8 music, neatly bound in cloth. Thereafter the various
i'nThe ISLE OF EE (poem), ..---■ 98 parts will be issued on the Jst of each month. The
«L«NPARo (poem), 98 parts, 13 m number, will be pubhshed at 4|- each ;
THE RoTAL Scots Orevs, Part IX. (illustrated), - - - 99 the complete volume, bound, tor i,2 Js. Intending
^ subscribers should communicate with the publisher,
OUR NEXT ISSUE. Cc//ic 3/(>M(/ih/, l» Blythswood Drive, Glasgow.
Next month we will give portraits, with short Gla.sgow Cowai, Shinty Club. — Mr. John
biographical sketches, of Surgeon Lieut. -Colonel Mackay, Editor, Celtic Monthly, and President of
and Mrs. J. MacGregor (photos arrived too late for the Club, was presented with a valuable gold scarf
this issue); the late Colonel Prank Duncan, Aber- ring, set with diamonds and saphires, by the
deen; and Mr. Alexander Cameron, EiTicbt. In members of the club, as a token of esteem, and in
addition to these Mr. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh acknowledgment of his many services to the club,
will commence an interesting series of illustrated BROSE.-The origin of this seductive
papers on the Macbeans, a sept of Clan Chattan. ^^ ^^^^.^^ j^^,^j^ ^^ honoured place in every
Celtic Monthly. Volume IV.— As we are only jyjg^^, ^^ ^ ^gH appointed Highland Dinner is not
able to supply a few complete bound copies of generally known. Once on a time a district of
this volume, some of the parts being already out of country m the north was infested by a formidable
print, those who desu:e copies should communicate savage, who roamed about in a state of nudity,
with us at once. The price is 10|- post free, and murderuirr and robbing with impunity. A con-
copies can now be had from the Editor, Mr. John giderable grant of land having been oftered to
Mackay, 9 Blythswood Drive, Glasgow. anyone who might overcome this enemy of his
Clan Mackay Society. — The arrangements for kind, a member of Clan Murray devised a scheme
the great gathering of the Clan in the Waterloo for his capture. Knowing of a spring where the
Rooms on 11th February, with Lord Reay, Chief wild man was used to drink, he placed near it a
of the Clan, in the chair, have now been completed, vessel containing a mixture of uisge-betitha and
.ind the reunion promises to be the most successful honey, and from a place of concealment watched
ever held by the Society. INIembers have written events. In due time the victim appeared and was
for tickets from all parts of the kingdom, several allured by the bait, partaking of it to such an
from London, while many others who are not inordinate quantity that at last he lay on his back
Mackays have expressed their intention to be intoxicated. He was then easily secured. This
present out of respect to the distinguished Chief of incident is the origin of the two 'supporters' to the
the Clan. coat-of-arms of ^tlie Murrays, viz : — one a naked
The Reception and Dinner to Lord Reav savage, the other a man clothed in his right mind,
will be held in the Grand Hotel on the same day at Such is the tradition in Gle..devon, Perthshire, as
4 p.m., and the attendance of ladies and gentlemen derived from a farmer, at one time tenant on the
is expected to be considerably over 100. Those of Tullibardine Estate. It would be interesting to
our readers who intend being present should apply obtain particulars of the locality and date of the
for tickets at once. I he prices of the tickets are incidents,
as follows :— Reception and Dinner 7,6, Gathering Giend.^voii. Kenneth Mathieson, Jr.