. Scottish notes and queries. Law other than Ecclesiastical. \V. G. Black. Cr 8vo, 8s (The) Law of Sale. ]. Mackintosh. 1 )emy Svo, 10S 6(1 T. & T. Clark. Round the Black Mans Garden. Z. Colville. Illust. Demy 8vo, 16s Cclumba. His Life and Work. Rev. E. A. Cooke. 2nd Ed. 8vo, 5s. St. Giles Print. and other Folk. M. N. Mann. 2nd Ed. Illust., Svo, is (The) Poor Laws. R. P. Lamond. 16s of the Stage. 2nd Ser. W. Winter. i6mo, 12s 6d of the Croft. P. H. Hunter. Svo, is Oliphant. Staffa and Iona (Offic


. Scottish notes and queries. Law other than Ecclesiastical. \V. G. Black. Cr 8vo, 8s (The) Law of Sale. ]. Mackintosh. 1 )emy Svo, 10S 6(1 T. & T. Clark. Round the Black Mans Garden. Z. Colville. Illust. Demy 8vo, 16s Cclumba. His Life and Work. Rev. E. A. Cooke. 2nd Ed. 8vo, 5s. St. Giles Print. and other Folk. M. N. Mann. 2nd Ed. Illust., Svo, is (The) Poor Laws. R. P. Lamond. 16s of the Stage. 2nd Ser. W. Winter. i6mo, 12s 6d of the Croft. P. H. Hunter. Svo, is Oliphant. Staffa and Iona (Official Guide to). 8vo, is Wilson. Surgery (Text-Book of) for Practitioners. Keen & J. W. White. Vol 1. Illust. RoyalSvo, 30s nett Pentland. Te Deum (Notes on the). Archdeacon (1, St. Giles Printing Co. The Kidnappers. G. G. Green. Svo, is Oliphant. The Mystery of North Fortune. G. Douglasand II. Derrick. 8vo, is Oliphant. Three Churchmen, Russell, Teriot, & Walker. Cr 8vo, 3s 6d R. Grant & SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES Vol. VII.] No. 4. SEPTEMBER, 1893. I Price 3d. \ Per Post 3%d. CONTENTS. K THE M( ABERDEEN, SEPTEMBER, iSgj. THE ABOYNE OGHAM ! .\ 1 to the famous Newton Stone, tliat- vvhicliforms the subject of our illustration is, from usclearly defined characters and accompanyingsymbols, perhaps the most interesting of all theOgham inscribed stones in the North of Scot-land. It was found many years ago when mak-ing some alterations in the old churchyard ofFormaston, about two miles to the north east ofthe present church of Aboyne. Its position wasa. strange one—almost under the doorstep of theold church, where it had lain forgotten for is now placed in a position of honour andtaken great care of at Aboyne Castle ; where ithas been examined by many learned experts,including the late Dr. W, F. Skene, ProfessorsRhys and Ramsay ; but the most minute andcareful examination of its Oghams has beenmade by the Earl of Southesk, w ho, in his workon


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