WILLIAM MACDONALD.
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One of the band of young writers associated with The Evergreen (Patrick Geddes and Colleagues, Edinburgh). Mr Macdonald has not yet issued his poems in book form.
AMICE MACDONELL.
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Miss Macdonell has not, so far as I know, published a volume. “Culloden Moor” appeared in the Celtic Monthly in June 1893.
ALICE C. MACDONELL.
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Miss Alice Macdonell of Keppoch has contributed many poems to Scottish and other periodicals. “The Weaving of the Tartan” appeared in the Celtic Monthly for December 1894.
WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY. (1796-1852.)
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The author of “The Thrush’s Song” was not a poet, but occasionally indulged in the pleasure of verse-making. He was a well-known Highland ornithologist, and it may be added that his attempt at an onomatopoeic rendering of the song of the thrush has been pronounced by Buckland and other ornithologists to be remarkably close.
FIONA MACLEOD.
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Miss Macleod is one of the younger writers most intimately associated with the Celtic Renascence in Scotland. “The Prayer of Women” (see page 255) is from Pharais: a Romance of the Isles (Frank Murray, Derby, 1894); “The Rune of Age” and “A Gaelic Milking Song” are from The Mountain Lovers (John Lane); the “Lullaby” and the two songs of Ethlenn Stuart are from her last volume, The Sin-Eater: and other Tales (Patrick Geddes and Colleagues, Edinburgh). “The Closing Doors” has not been published hitherto. The brief lyric, “The Sorrow of Delight,” was contributed to an as yet unpublished fantastic sketch, The Merchant of Dreams, written in collaboration with a friend. Such of the poems scattered through her several volumes, and others, as she wishes to preserve in connected form, will be published by Miss Macleod early in 1896 (Patrick Geddes and Colleagues), under the title of Lyric Runes and Fonnsheen.