Boys and girls in Highland schools speak Gaelic fluently, in pronounced dialect form for the most part. --The Celtic Review.
Macbain\'s little volume most valuable.
Meanwhile, aspirants for the Gaelic Leaving Certificate will find Dr.
The Reading Book should contain carefully selected specimens in prose and verse from the best modern Gaelic authors, With a short note giving the principal facts in each author\'s life, and a sentence indicating the special feature of his genius.
A separate volume would be required for general reading.
Such a volume would usefully provide in an appendix specimens of such Examination Papers in Gaelic as have hitherto appeared.
First and foremost there is urgently needed an outline of Gaelic Grammar, such as is provided here, but With a graduated course of exercises for translation and retranslation, With examples here and there showing how such exercises ought to be done, especially in the rendering of idioms and figures of speech.
To meet the case of such pupils fully, it will be found that not one but two books are required.
Macbain, a foremost Gaelic scholar and an experienced teacher of eminence, has printed this booklet for the use of pupils qualifying for this certificate.
But the Scottish Education Department has, by a recent Minute, offered a Leaving Certificate in Gaelic, and Dr.
Hitherto it has been practically ignored.
How best to utilise this acquirement of theirs in order to further their mental training and general culture is a vital question in the education of these children.
Boys and girls in Highland schools speak Gaelic fluently, in pronounced dialect form for the most part
