I hope the present collection of new studies on old themes will win a welcome from Scotsmen at home and abroad.

My contributors, who have kindly furnished me with articles, are recognized authorities on the subjects they have written about, and I think their efforts cannot fail to find favour with the reader.

William Andrews.

The Hull Press,
Christmas Eve, 1898.


Contents.

PAGE
The Cross in Scotland. By the Rev. Geo. S. Tyack, B.A.[1]
Bell Lore. By England Howlett[34]
Saints and Holy Wells. By Thomas Frost[46]
Life in the Pre-Reformation Cathedrals. By A. H. Millar, F.S.A., Scot.[64]
Public Worship in Olden Times. By the Rev. Alexander Waters, M.A., B.D.[86]
Church Music. By Thomas Frost[98]
Discipline in the Kirk. By the Rev. Geo. S. Tyack, B.A.[108]
Curiosities of Church Finance. By the Rev. R. Wilkins Rees[130]
Witchcraft and the Kirk. By the Rev. R. Wilkins Rees[162]
Birth and Baptisms, Customs and Superstitions[194]
Marriage Laws and Customs[210]
Gretna Green Gossip[227]
Death and Burial Customs and Superstitions[237]
The Story of a Stool[255]
The Martyrs’ Monument, Edinburgh[260]

Bygone Church Life in Scotland.