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ment to the Chair of Church History might have allowed him 
leisure to publish some results of his extensive reading and matured 
thought, the plan he had laid down for teaching the history of 
the Church (as before observed) necessitated the writing of new 
lectures for each year. In this way he sometimes wrote seventy 
new lectures in one session. In any intervals of leisure, however, 
he enjoyed miscellaneous reading, and sometimes indulged in 
poetical effusions. He translated into verse the Latin rhymes in 
the well-known Aberdeen Breviary, which he printed, but did not 
then complete. 
As ancient Scottish literature, especially poetry, had always been 
a favourite subject with him, Dr Stevenson was often consulted 
about the publication of manuscript remains of our early Doric 
vernacular, and several works of this kind, when they appeared, 
were dedicated to him. In 1870 he took much interest in an 
edition of the works of Gavin Douglas, the poetical Bishop of 
Dunkeld, then projected. He read over the proof sheets, and 
aided in expiscating some circumstances attendant on the double 
consecration of that ancient Scottish Prelate. About the same 
time he resolved to complete the legends from the Aberdeen 
Breviary, by appending historical notes, and they at length ap- 
peared in an octavo volume about the end of 1872. The title of 
the work is as follows : — “ The Legends and Commemorative Cele- 
brations of StKentigern, his Friends and Disciples, translated from 
the Aberdeen Breviary and the Arbuthnot Missal, with an illustra- 
tive Appendix. Printed for private circulation, 1872.” 
In the preface, he states that at one time he had in view u to 
prepare a complete calendar of the Scottish Saints, and, taking the 
national legends of the Aberdeen Breviary for a basis, he proposed 
to intercalate all that he might be able to ascertain regarding 
those DU minores of our country’s earlier faith, who, although not 
enrolled in that dignified service book, are mentioned in other 
literary monuments now less recondite than they were then, or 
have left some dim memories of themselves in the names of the 
towns, villages, fairs, and wells of our country, sometimes in 
remote and lonely districts, or spots where there had once been 
chapels, cells, or hermitages.” 
The want of leisure prevented his carrying out so extensive a 
