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tem dicere verum, Quid vetat ? ” In it playful and kindly satire 
appears in its best form, directed against the exaggerations, false 
sentiments, or fallacies of the day. And the songs themselves are 
so well written and so full of sparkling life that they may well 
continue to please many a future generation. His last published 
work was the “ Greek Anthology for English Headers,” and the 
preparation of this was with him indeed a labour of love. In it he 
was able to combine his scholarlike fondness for classical antiquity 
with his taste for the witty and the epigrammatic, and it afforded 
him infinite pleasure to labour at reproducing in the most terse and 
elegant English form the best flowers out of that garden of happy 
conceits and concinnities bequeathed to us by the Grecian muse. 
This work, though undertaken very late in life, was highly success- 
ful ; the renderings were spirited, and they were accompanied with 
annotations, in which was much curious learning, very creditable to 
one with whom scholarship was not a business but a recreation. 
Lord Heaves became a Fellow of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh 
in 1856. In 1859 he delivered the opening Address of the Session, 
with a biographical notice of the venerable Principal Lee. Ten 
years later he gave another opening Address for the Session 1869-70. 
In the same session he read a paper on the “ Primitive Affinity 
between the Classical and Low German Languages.” In this paper 
he argued that the affinities between old English and Latin must 
have arisen from prehistoric identity or connection, and he pointed 
out certain limitations to which Grimm’s law of affinities must 
be subjected. In 1871 he read a communication “On the Penta- 
tonic and other Scales employed in Scottish Music,” when airs 
illustrating his views were played by Mr Bridgman. In 1872 he 
read a paper on “ Some Helps to the Study of Scoto-Celtic 
Philology,” in which he pointed out the disguises which words 
belonging to the Aryan family of languages assume in passing into 
Gaelic, and showed the laws regulating those changes. Among 
other points of interest, the paper contained a discussion upon so 
and da, the Gaelic representatives of the Sanskrit prefixes su and 
du, which appear in Greek as cv and Svs — “ well ” and “ ill.” 
In 1874 Lord Heaves furnished biographical notices of Lord 
Colonsay, Professor Cosmo Innes, and Mr Francis Deas ; and in 
1875 he read a paper “On some remarkable changes, additions, 
