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But, though the maid was nobly cold 

 To all the power of rank and gold, 

 Not so the sire. In vain she said 

 Her choice in love had long been made. 

 He deeply swore his kneeling daughter 

 Should wed the earl from o'er the water. 



The sire was stern, the maid as proud, 

 Too far in love to yield, she vow'd, 

 And kept her vow too, that by none, 

 Save Malcolm, should her heart be won. 

 So, in the night, the Chieftain's daughter 

 With Malcolm Grant fled o'er the water. 



Ah ! then, ah ! then the sire lamented 

 His former harshness, and relented ; 

 Their match was equal, why be stern ? 

 He bade the fugitives return ; 

 And Malcolm, and the Chieftain's daughter, 

 Again dwelt near their loch's blue water." 



A Sketch of the Medical Monopolies, with a Plan of Reform : By 

 JAMES KENNEDY, M.R.C.S. L. ; author of "The History of 

 Cholera," &c. Edward Moxon. 



THIS pamphlet is sure to excite interest among the medical profession. It 

 stales some homely truths, which will not be altogether grateful to the palates 

 of the monopolists. The pamphlet is well written. Mr. Kennedy concludes 

 his sketch of the Medical Corporations with the following recapitulation : 



" Before closing this sketch of the Medical Corporations, I shall take leave 

 briefly to recapitulate some of the leading points which I have endeavoured to 

 illustrate, and on which reformation ought to bear. In a subject that has 

 been rendered so complicated by allusion^ to various and conflicting interests, 

 and laws and bye-laws, this repetition will probably not be considered alto- 

 gether useless. 



" As the Medical Corporations or Colleges are in the possession of a com- 

 paratively few individuals, who act on peculiar views and interests, these Cor- 

 porations have no community of feeling with the general body of medical 

 men. The College of Physicians is ruled by its President and Fellows, who 

 lect their successors ; the College of Surgeons is ruled by the twenty-one 

 members who constitute the Council or Court of Assistants, and who 

 also elect their successors. These ruling authorities hold office for life, and 

 acknowledge no control but their own wishes, and the construction which 

 they themselves put upon their charters. Possessing irresponsible power, 

 these narrow corporations have made various bye-laws to oppress and degrade 

 the members at large, though amounting in number to many thousands. Not 

 content with the differences of rank which are produced by individual ability, 

 and acquirements, and public patronage, and which will always exist in the 

 profession, the Corporations have created many artificial and injurious distinc- 

 tions. Apart from those that operate within the College walls, as between 

 the Fellows and Licentiates of the College of Physicians, other distinctions 

 have been established that operate without their walls, by which an attempt is 

 made to divide the medical art into separate branches, to the great injury of 

 the public interests, as well as to the detriment of the profession, and in vio- 

 lation of the principle on which the medical corporations were originally 

 constituted. 



" The principle of their constitution is violated, inasmuch as these corpora- 

 tions do not at present form Examining Boards to stand between the public 



