were so well adapted for the high enterprise which they undertook. The two peoples sprang from a common stock and spoke dialects of one language. Their social and political conditions were much alike, and besides, the peculiar monasticism which the Irish monks brought with them fitted easily and readily into the tribal system of the Picts.

"Yet, withal, we owe very much to our oldest Church; all, indeed, that stood for Christianity in Gaelic Scotland for five hundred years, and with all its defects we can only think of it with gratitude and affection. Its early agents especially, and some of its later missionaries, like Duthac of Tain, who probably labored in Ross-shire towards the end of the Columban period, lived up to the light they had. They taught the truths that are essential to salvation. Their standard of religion and morals was the Bible. They lived lives of simplicity, devotion and selfdenial. They sought neither honors nor wealth. They sailed stormy seas and trod wolf-haunted forests to bring the message of salvation through Christ to the living and the dying. They were all things to all men that they might save some."

Dr. MacKay's lecture on "The Mediaeval Church" discusses how through the influence of Queen Margaret representing the Roman Catholic Church, and King Malcolm Canmor, President of the Gaelic Church, the two were united. In the remaining lectures the author gives a bird's-eye view of the leading influences at work in the "Reformed Church," the "Persecuted Church," the "Declining Church" and the "Awakening Church." The book is scholarly and impartial in its discussion of controversial subjects. (George Doran & Company, New York. Price, $1.50.)

"Words of This Life," by Rev. William MacIntosh MacKay, Glasgow. Dedicated to the memory of his brother, Donald Sage MacKay, New York.

This is a volume of twenty helpful ser mons by a live preacher; we have seldom read a book that has so many practical illus trations. Some of the titles of the discourses are: "The Faith That Learns to Labor and to Wait," "The Cost of Christ's Sword," "Taking the Gold Out of Life." (George H. Doran & Company, New York. Price $1.25).

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Quiet Talks With the Family. by Rev. Charles Edward Jefferson, D.D., pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, is a series of intimate straight-from-the-shoulder talks to each member of the home circle: fathers, mothers, boys and girls, grown-up sons and daughters, daughters-in-law, grandparents and masters and servants. directs special attention to the force of example: "The Best of Fortunes," which a man can leave his children, "is a parental example which makes it easy to believe in the fatherly goodness of God." The book is a plea for the simpler virtues of life, for that harmony of home life without which there.

can be no true Christianity. (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. Price $1.00 net).

Harpers for June contains a pleasant dis cussion of the social aspects of the Philadel phian, with a colored frontispiece and illustration in tint by Howard Giles. Another excellent colored illustration accompanies the second installment of Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger." Walter King Stone contributes a series of his inimitable out-door pictures to W. P. Eaton's "Weather and Sky." Other splendid articles are: "Business and Philanthropy," by Robert W. Bruere; "The Coaling Ports of the World," by George Harding, and an appreciation of the late Henry Wolf, the famous woodengraver, by Charles H. Caffin, with a budget of his finest engravings. The fiction is of the usual high standard.

In the North American Review for May, the editor, Colonel Harvey, contributes to the complicated political situation by an endorsement of Justice Hughes for the Presidency. The number contains two notable contributions on the Japanese question and on "England's Secret Diplomacy" and "The War and French Finance." The literary contributions are an unpublished essay by A. C. Swinburne and "Shakespeare and 'The Winter's Tale'," by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.

The special war feature of The American Review of Reviews for May is "The Battle of Verdun as France Saw It." Other important articles are: "What Shall We Do For Our Boys?"; "Consumers' Co-operation During the War"; "Farming and a World Crisis"; "The Lumber Decline in the Northwest" and "The Great Pageants" (the Shakespeare Masque in New York, and the Newark Historical Pageant).

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Scottish Country Life (monthly), gov, for May contains the usual number of photographic masterpieces of out-door life and Scottish scenery by W. Reid, Sir John Ure Primrose, A. B. Beattie, M. R. Campbell and others. The principal articles are "Clan Mackintosh and Its Chiefs," with illustrations. "Industrial Treason," on the methods of Great Britain in meeting the aggravated labor situation in certain parts of the country, several bits of short out-door fiction and the usual departments of sports, gardening, natural history, farming, photography and fashions.

The Scottish Historical Review (quarterly), Glasgow. for April contains articles on "Scottish Influence on Orkney," by Alfred W. Johnston; "17th Century Receipts," by Prof. John Ferguson; “Receipts From the Diary of the Rev. Robert Landess"; "The Last Episcopal Minister of Moneydie," by John A. Ingls; "Nithsdale at the Union of the Crowns," by Robert Grierson; "Municipal Elections in the Royal Burghs of Scotland." by Theodore Keith; "Ancient Munitions Acts." by Allen F. Baird; and reviews of current books.

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Hon. John M. Brown

On the afternoon of Sunday, May 7, a large and representative number of the citizens of Stamford, Conn., gathered in the Town Hall to take part in the dedication of a memorial tablet in honor of the late John Mackie Brown, Mayor of that city.

The services were opened with the singing of "America" by the choir of the Presbyterian Church and the audience.

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Rev. L. F. Berry, of the Congregational Church, offered prayer. Addresses were then made by Robert Whittaker, chairman of the Memorial Committee; Mayor John J. Treat, Rev. Charles Morris Addison, rector of St. John's Church, who spoke on "John M. Brown as a Churchman"; Rev. Dr. Johnston, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and chaplain of the Stamford Scottish Society, whose theme was "John M. Brown Scotsman"; Rev. I. Newton Phelps, vicar of St. John's Parish, who spoke of "John M. Brown as a Man Among Men."

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All of the speakers were eloquent in their testimony to the high character and useful life of the late beloved Mayor. The Scotsmen in the audience, of whom there were many, were deeply touched by Dr. Johnston's tribute to him who had been their leader for more than twenty years.

The tablet was veiled with the Stamford flag, of which the late Mayor had been the suggestor and part-designer. As Mrs. Thomas B. Reid, a sister of the deceased, drew the flag aside, there was revealed an artistic work of marble and bronze, which bore the words, "This tablet is in memory of John Mackie Brown, Mayor of the City of Stamford, born November 7th, 1856, died

in office, December 10th, 1915. His face was to the sunlight."

"Auld Lang Syne" was then sung, after which Rev. Mr. Berry pronounced the benediction.

The tablet had been beautifully dressed with plants and flowers by Alexander Geddes, an intimate friend of the deceased and his successor as president of the Stamford Scottish Society.

The following verses composed by one who was close to the late Mr. Brown, were written for the dedication, and were given to the chairman of the meeting:

To one who comes not with the Spring,
Whom we would fain commemorate,
The tribute of our love we bring,

This day to dedicate.

Ah, true, he needs it not, for he

Is monumented in our hearts. And his loved name and memory Grow dearer as each day departs.

Yet it is meet that here we set

This symbol of a fond regard

In token we can ne'er forget

Him who kept faithful watch and ward.

And when our hands are helpless dust,
May it this honored place adorn,
And tell of one kind, brave and just,
Whom now we mourn.

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It is of interest to know that the first gift to this college was by an Episcopalian, Mark Morgan, of Laurel Hill, this being $7,000, and with this money Morgan Hall including the dining room spacious and attractive and dormitories above it were built.

The college is certainly popular in South Carolina for forty girls from that state are there as students.

The ideal toward which this college has been working during these twenty constructive years has been what has been achieved, namely, a college for young women that shall be a college indeed; that a diploma from Flora Macdonald College shall mean exactly the same accomplishment and represent the same amount of work done as is required in the men's colleges of North Carolina. This was the vision from the very beginning for keen Scottish minds are not satisfied with less than the best.

And so to-day Flora Macdonald College stands abreast of the leading colleges of the state, her entrance requirements on an exact parallel with those of Davidson college; she takes her in the fore-front "as one that needeth not to be ashamed," but as one that merits and should have the best-the best that the Scotch of all the world can and will do for her endowment.

"SONS OF GAEL, SHOULDERS TOGETHER."