CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAQK 



Primroses and Daisies in early March — "The Posie " — Bums — "The 

 Ancient Mariner" — William Tennant, Author of " Anster Fair" — 

 Hebridean Epithalamium — A Bard's Blessing — A Translation — 

 Macleod of Berneray, ......... 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Autumnal Tints — Solomon and the Queen of Sheba — Sortes Sacra — 

 Sortes Virgilmnce — Charles the First and Lord Falkland — Virgilius 

 the Magician — Thomas of ErcUdoune, ...... 8 



CHAPTER III. 



An old Gaelic MS. — " The Bemtched Bachelor Unbewitched " — Fairy 



Lore — Lacteal Libations on Fairy Knowes, . . . . . 18 



CHAPTER IV. 



Transit of Mercury — Improperly called an " Eclipse " of — November 

 Meteors — Mr. Huggins — Spectrum Analyses of Cometary Light — 

 Translation of a St. KUda Song, ....... 23 



CHAPTER V. 



Bird Music — The Skylark's Song — Imitation of, by a French Poet — ■ 



Alasdair Maodonald — Scott, ....... 29 



CHAPTER VL 



Severe Drought — The Drive by Coach from Fort-William to Kingussie — 

 Breakfast at Moy — Where did Scott find Dominie Sampson's " Pro- 

 di-gi-ous ! " ? — Professor Blaokie's Poem on Glencoe, ... 33 



