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THE CELTIC MONTHLY.
TO CORRESPONDENTS
All Communications, "» literary and buslnesi
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The Celtic Monthly.
JANUARY, 1893
TO OUR READERS.
By the time this number of the magazine reaches
our readers, they will be busy preparing for tin-
holiday festivities. In the Highlands our
younger friends will be getting ready their best
camans for the shinty match on New Year's
I i.i \ , and young and old will be looking forward
to the entertainments and other means of enjoy-
ment which are usually so plentiful at this
festive season. We wish our readers a very
merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and
we trust that the coming year will be a prosper-
ous one to all of them.
A glance at our pages this month will satisfy
our readers that we have not forgotten our
promise to improve the magazine. The hand-
some plate which we present with this issue
was prepared by the finest process known in
this country, and as a work of art will compare
favourably with those contained in the best
London magazines. A perusal of our pages
will satisfy our readers that the quality of the
contents of our New- Year number is all that
eould be wished. Our desire is to establish a
in connection with the Highlands, and
giving prominence to the Gaelic language, which
will be a endit to Highlanders, and bear com-
pari on with its English contemporaries. The
pi issue is a step in the realisation of our
ideal, and we hope next month to introduce some
new features which will increase the interest
and value of the magazine.
Having done our part conscientiously, we
trust that our friends will recommend the Celtic
Monthly to their acquaintances, and by increas-
ing the circulation, permit us the sooner to
make the magazine what \se would like it to be.
Xc\i month we intend to present our readers
with the portraits of several of our valued con-
tributors, and hope in the succeeding issues to
Le able to further develop this attractive
feature. We are all a little curious to know
the appear! i of an author whose works we
enjoy reading, and wi feel sure thai good por-
traits of our contributors will add a special
interest to the articles which appear in our
pages from their pens. Our "Celtic Celebrity "
next month, will be Mr. Malcolm Ferguson, the
talented author of "Rambles in Breadalbane,"
and other popular Highland works, who will be
given in the Highland costume. We also intend
giving portraits of the late Mrs. Mary Mackellar,
with a sympathetic sketch by ber friend, .Miss
Annie MacKay;and Mr. Alister Macdonald, the
winner of the second prize for Gaelic poetry at the
Oban Mod, who contributes a Gaelic poem ;
as well as one of Mr. Thomas Sinclair, M.A.,
the author of " A History of the Clan Gunn," a
gentleman well known in Caithness and the
north. Many lovers of the ancient game of shinty
will, no doubt, be glad to hear that our next issue
will contain a portrait of Captain A. M. Chis-
holm, of Glassburn, chief of the Strathglass Club,
wdio is favourably known to Highlanders every-
where as a patriotic Celt. He appears, appro-
priately, in the Highland garb.
The Cameron Highlanders.- -Wepublishin
another place an interesting communication
from Mr. MacKay, Hereford, regarding the
proposal to obliterate the 79th Cameron High
landers from the army list as a distincl rem
ment. There is no doubt that the War Office
officials seriously meditate this step, and it is
the "duty" of every Highland association to
protest. This continual " tinkering " with our
Highland regiments has been allowed to go on
too long, and Highlanders should now make a
determined stand against the denationalising
process that is being attempted. What High
land societies are willing to help \
Highland Publications.— There is at pic-cat ■ |ii it.-
a pleasing activity among our Celtic literati. Mr.
A, cli, I Sinclair has just published a si nd and en
i lition of Mr. Neil MacLeod's "Clarsacb an
..Inch should Hint with a ready sale; Mr.
William MacKay, Inverness, is cngag. .1 up mi a largo
ami \alual.h- well., entitled •• I 'ripiliart and lllen
moriston: Olden Times in a Highland Parish ; " Col.
Charles Stewart ("Tigh 'n .Win.' i is preparing two
int. I est ill- ^ "I no.. en Hi jnl. .ii. I tc.pies ; anil Ml.
Ii, en, a Sinclair, M.A., is completing a new volume on
the < 'Ian Gunn.
Clan Campbell Gathering. This dan celebrate
Hi, a, animal reunion in the City Ball (iii Thurs-
day, 10th January 1 '-iinpbcll ,.!' Huustalliiage .,erup\
mg the chair. Aii attractive programme has been
arranged, and the gath.-i m-j pomn-cs to be a great
success, llis Grace the Duke oi Argyll, chief of the
, i , , , | , reci ive the freedom oi Paisley on the fore
I n of that (lav. an.l the clan have strong hopes of
his being able to come to Glasgow in the evening, and
be present at the -atll.imj Appn.pi late tor the
00 , a ,,,,.. we present oui read, re this month with por-
\1, Malcolm I ami " '■ l'" -"'' "' "' ''"'
,,,l Mr. John Campi- II. ,.t I..-, lug, ih.- clan
bard ' Both arc life-like portraits, and will no doubt
be valued bj members oi the dan.