The Scottish Review

The Scottish Review, originally published between 1882 and 1900, was revived by Erskine in Spring 1914 and came out regularly until Spring 1920. On the title page, it was described as ‘a quarterly journal devoted to the cause of the independence of Scotland.’

CONTENTS

  • ‘J. M.’: ‘The Rising of the Moon’ [essay, ENG]
  • [without attribution]: ‘Bannockburn’ [essay, ENG]
  • J. M. Hogge: ‘The Scottish Small Landholders Amending Bill’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Viator’: ‘A Diplomatic Loss to Europe’ [essay, ENG]
  • J. G. Mackenzie: ‘Is Nationalisation of Life Assurance Desirable?’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘The Awakening of the Farm Servant’ [essay, ENG]
  • Robert S. Rait: ‘Traces of the Celt in the Lowlands’ [essay, ENG]
  • Angus Henderson: ‘The Passing of the Great Estates’ [essay, ENG]
  • Ruaraidh Erskine: ‘The Two Cultures’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Begg: ‘The Piper of Laments’ [prose, ENG]

  • Ruaraidh Erskine: ‘Celt, Slav, Hun, Teuton’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘The Province and the Land’ [essay, ENG]
  • Allan M’Neil: ‘Banks and Banking’ [essay, ENG]
  • Malcolm MacLeod: ‘An Comunn Gaidhealach’ [essay, ENG]
  • Innes Logan: ‘Land and Trees’ [essay, ENG]
  • J. A. Stevenson: ‘The Influence of Scotland on Canada’ [essay, ENG]
  • Allen Upward: ‘The Plougher’ [poetry, ENG]
  • William Walker: ‘The Tourist and the Tourist Traffic’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Albannica’: ‘Sexual Euality and the Vote’ [essay, ENG]
  • Lewis Spence: ‘A Mythological Relic from Newhaven’ [essay, ENG]
  • Andrew Donaldson: ‘The Gael in Galloway’ [essay, ENG]
  • Charles L. Warr: ‘Eachan Donn’ [prose, ENG]

  • [without attribution]: ‘The New Treason’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Scotland and the War’ [essay, ENG]
  • J. M. Hogge: ‘Wanted! A Royal Commission on Scottish Education’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘A Scottish Artisan’: ‘The New Diplomacy’ [essay, ENG]
  • Jason W. MacGregor: ‘Adamnan and Bede as Authorities for Early Scottish History’ [essay, ENG]
  • James Maxton: ‘The Working Class Movement’ [essay, ENG]
  • Charles Bell: ‘The Development of Celtic Architecture and its Revival in Modern Times’ [essay, ENG]
  • Lewis Spence: ‘Three Edinburgh Myths’ [essay, ENG]
  • Correspondence

  • [without attribution]: ‘The Liberty of the Press’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘M. MacMillan’: ‘The Future of War’ [essay, ENG]
  • A. M. E. [Aonghas MacEanraig]: ‘The War and the Highlands’ [essay, ENG]
  • J. M. Hogge: ‘A Business Note on the Scottish Home Rule’ [essay, ENG]
  • J. A. Symon.: ‘The Present Position and Prospects of Scottish Agriculture’ [essay, ENG]
  • 'Marr': ‘The ’Fifteen’ [essay, ENG]
  • Charles Bell: ‘The Development of Celtic Architecture: Domestic Architecture’ [essay, ENG]
  • Lewis Spence: ‘An East Lothian Alchemist’ [essay, ENG]
  • Ruaraidh Erskine: ‘“Britain”’ [essay, ENG]
  • John MacCormick: ‘The Chinese Pirates’ [prose, ENG; translated from Gaelic by Ruaraidh Erskine]

  • Murdo MacColla: ‘Question of Principles’ [essay, ENG]
  • John L. Carvel: ‘Land Values Taxation’ [essay, ENG]
  • J. M. Hogge: ‘The Paralysis of Scottish Land Reform’ [essay, ENG]
  • W. J. Edmondston-Scott: ‘The Traditional Genesis of the Fenian Saga’ [essay, ENG]
  • Lachlan MacBean: ‘The Regeneration of the Anglo-Saxon’ [essay, ENG]
  • Aeneas MacDonald: ‘English Ascendency’ [essay, ENG]
  • R. Murray: ‘James Scadlock – A Poet Friend of Tannahill’ [essay, ENG]
  • W. G. Blaikie Murdoch: ‘Celtic Art’ [essay, ENG]
  • Lewis Spence: ‘Folklore from the Forth’ [essay, ENG]

  • William Diack: ‘Following the Drum’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘A Scots Nationalist’: ‘The Future of Peace’ [essay, ENG]
  • A. Newman: ‘The Doctrine of Rest in Irish Mythology’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘The Duke of Marr’: ‘A New Way to an Old Balance’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Luath’: ‘Robert Burns as Poet of Scottish Nationalism’ [essay, ENG]
  • Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar: ‘On a Preface’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘B. R. S.’: ‘Scotia Gadelica’ [essay, ENG]
  • Dòmhnall MacEacharn: ‘The Exploits of the Aged’ [prose, ENG; translated from Gaelic by Ruaraidh Erskine]

  • Ruaraidh Erskine: ‘Not Dead but Sleeping’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Land Settlement after the War’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Philalethes’: ‘Soluitur Rieu’
  • ‘Nationalism and National Antagonism’: M. MacMilan: ‘Nationalism’; Jose A. Duncan: ‘National Antagonism’ [essays, ENG]
  • ‘A Scottish Artisan’: ‘The New Nomenclature’
  • Coinneach MacLeòid: ‘The Spell of the Sea’ [prose, ENG; translated from Gaelic by Ruaraidh Erskine]

  • Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar: ‘Not Dead but Sleeping’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Scotland and War Finance’ [essay, ENG]
  • The Duke of Marr: ‘The European Importance of the Scottish Kingdom’ [essay with commentary, ENG]
  • ‘Philalethes’: ‘The Tree of Tradition’
  • J. M. Murdoch: ‘Our Newspaper Press’ [essay, ENG]
  • Lewis Spence: ‘The Degradation of Edinburgh’ [essay, ENG]
  • Eoin MacNeill: ‘Chapters of Hebridean History: I. The Norse Kingdom of the Hebrides’ [essay, ENG]
  • Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich: ‘The Cotton-Flower of the Hills’ [prose, ENG; translated from Gaelic by Ruaraidh Erskine]

  • Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar: ‘Not Dead but Sleeping’ [essay, ENG]
  • Edward T. John: ‘Enter the Celt’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Scottish Commerce after the War’ [essay, ENG]
  • J. M. Hogge: ‘Scottish Affairs in the Westminster Parliament and Out’ [essay, ENG]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Who Fears to Speak of Easter Week?’ [essay, ENG]
  • T. D. MacDonald: ‘The Highlands: Considered in Relation to the Economy of Small-Holdings’ [essay, ENG]
  • J. Wood: ‘War’s Fiscal Dangers’ [essay, ENG]
  • Robert Grierson: ‘Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell, and Ireland’ [essay, ENG]
  • Aonghas MacEanraig: ‘War and the Vote’ [essay, ENG; translated from Gaelic by Ruaraidh Erskine]

  • ‘Twist “Wait and See” and “Leap and Look”’
  • ‘Per Ardua ad Astra’: ‘The European Situation’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Our Industries after the War’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Belfast’: ‘Enter the Celt’
  • W. Berrie: ‘Educational Affairs’ [essay, ENG]
  • T. D. MacDonald: ‘The Highlands: Considered in Relations to the Economy of Small Holdings’ [essay, ENG]
  • A. Newman: ‘Plato’s Theory of Ideas among the Druids’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘A Scottish Artisan’: ‘The Trouble with England’ [essay, ENG]
  • Hugh Munro: ‘Some Aspects of the Celt in James McNeill Whistler’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘The Student and the Cat' [poem, ENG; translation of ‘Pangur Bàn’; translator not attributed]
  • Aonghas MacEanraig: ‘The War and the Vote’ [essay, ENG; translated from Gaelic by Ruaraidh Erskine]

  • ‘Ad Astra per Ardua’: ‘Racialism and the Peace Conference’
  • William Diack: ‘Scottish Shipping and the War’
  • The Duke of Marr: ‘Enter the Celt’
  • ‘A Scottish Trade Unionist’: ‘The Future of the Scottish Labour Party’
  • Michel de Zogheb: ‘To Mary, Queen of Scots’ [poetry, ENG]
  • H. G. MacCreath: ‘The Farmers of the South-West’
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Starving of Scottish Science’
  • James Forsyth: ‘The Pictish Stones Mystery: A Suggested Solution’ [essay, ENG]
  • Aonghas MacEanraig: ‘The War and the Vote’ [essay, ENG; translated from Gaelic by Ruaraidh Erskine]

  • [without attribution, assumed Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Scotland and the Peace Congress’ [essay, ENG]
  • [without attribution]: ‘The English Empire and the Future’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Scottish Trade Unionists and Industrial Unrest’ [essay, ENG]
  • Herbert Moore Pim: ‘Empire: Maker of War’ [poetry, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘Scotland at Westminster’ [essay, ENG]
  • John L. Carvel: ‘The Housing Problem’ [essay, ENG]
  • Geoffry Hill: ‘The Ebel’ [essay, ENG]
  • Sanny M’Nee [Murray McCabe]: ‘Owre the Hill’ [poetry, SC]
  • Correspondence

  • [without attribution, assumed Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Ireland and Scotland at the Peace Conference’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Scotland’s War Bill’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Duke of Marr’: ‘The Royal Stewarts’ [essay, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The English in Scotland’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Aillseag’: ‘Some One Sees Through Mr Bolo’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Albanach’: ‘The Scottish Army: The “Lowland” and “Highland” Question’ [essay, ENG]
  • [without attribution]: ‘After the Battle’ [poetry, SC; reprint from The Farm Servant, notes by C. M. P.]
  • Dòmhnall MacEacharn: ‘Rot’ [prose, ENG; translated from Gaelic by Ruaraidh Erskine]
  • Correspondence: A. K. P. Wingate: ‘Perversions of History’ [letter, ENG]

  • [without attribution, assumed Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Scotland and the Peace Congress’ [essay, ENG]
  • [without attribution]: ‘The Cultural Commonwealths of the Future’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Should the Education Bill be Withdrawn?’ [essay, ENG]
  • [without attribution]: ‘Principle and the English Labour Party’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Achd an Fhogluim Neo-Albannach’ [petition, GD; signed by Dòmhnall MacAoidh, Ruaraidh Arascain is Mhàirr, Seumas M. Calder, Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich, Aonghas Dòmhnallach, Liam MacGillÌosa, H. C. MacNeacail, Art de Pratt]
  • T. D. MacDonald: ‘The Public and the Food Controller’ [essay, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Scottish Claims’ [essay, ENG]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Chronicles of the Quarters’: ‘The Brosnachadh’, ‘Political Morality and the Secret Treaties’, ‘The Originals of the War’, ‘Self-determination and Industrial Freedom’, ‘“Muddling-through Morality’, ‘Self-determination for Wales’, ‘The Late Mr John Redmond’, ‘Democracy VERSUS Bureaucracy’, ‘The Highland Land League’, ‘Two Rumours’ [short articles, ENG]

  • [without attribution, assumed Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Scotland and the Peace Congress’ [essay, ENG]
  • [without attribution]: ‘Political Morality and the Secret Treaties’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘The Future of the Scottish Labour Party’ [essay, ENG]
  • Ùisdean Laing: ‘Last of the Old Dominies’ [prose, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘Celt and Teuton in England’ [essay, ENG]
  • Aonghas MacEanraig: ‘Anam-Bhrìgh na Pàirteachd’ [essay, GD]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Chronicles of the Quarters’: ‘The Psychology of Socialism’, ‘Imperialism the Enemy’, ‘Peace by Internationale’, ‘The International and a “League of Nations”’, ‘Na Ceiltich am Bonnaibh a Chèile’, ‘The Russian Constitution’, ‘The German Future’, ‘The Case of Mr John MacLean’, ‘The Ulster Problem’, ‘Whiggery and Priggery’, ‘The Welsh Titus Oates’, ‘Ireland and Physical Force’, ‘Jacobites and Williamites’, ‘The Capital and Mr Lloyd George’, ‘The MacLaughlin Mission’, ‘“Agreed” History while You Wait’, ‘The Monstrous Army of Political Hostages’, ‘The Waters of Lochaber’, ‘Giant “It-Can’t-Be-Done”’, ‘Dormant, but not Dead’, ‘Should It Be Repealed?’, ‘A “Union” without Force, without Sense’, ‘Celtic Originals’, ‘A Reflexion for the Times’ [short articles, ENG]

  • [without attribution]: ‘The Foundations of National Self-determination’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘The Housing Scandal’ [essay, ENG]
  • W. D. [William Diack]: ‘Scottish Labour Aims’ [essay, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Celt in Scotland’ [essay, ENG]
  • Ùisdean Laing: ‘The Auld Hoose’ [prose, ENG]
  • Aonghas MacEanraig: ‘Prìomh-Riaghailtean do na Ceiltich’ [essay, GD]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Chronicles of the Quarters’: ‘The Celtic Constitution’, ‘Ireland and Scotland at the Peace Congress’, ‘A Ministry of Health for Scotland’, ‘The International’, ‘The Policy of the Fourteen Points’, ‘The Irish and Scottish Labour Parties’, ‘Ulster Again’, ‘Ireland and the English Labour Party’, ‘Race-Consciousness’, ‘The Celtic Congress at Neath’, ‘Gaelic and the Scottish Press’, ‘The Trials of Mr Arthur Henderson’, ‘Mr. Lloyd George’, ‘The Blonde Peril’, ‘Mr Barnes and the English Government’, ‘The Glut of “Cauld Kail” at Aberdeen’, ‘The Laureate of the Scottish Farm Servants’ [short articles, ENG]
  • Correspondence: J. Arthur Price: ‘Celt and Teuton in England’ [letter, ENG]

  • [without attribution]: ‘The National Memorial: Touching the Representation of Scotland at the Peace Congress’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Reconstruction’ [essay, ENG]
  • John Dory: ‘The Future of the Fishing Industry’ [essay, ENG]
  • D’ Arcy Ford: ‘To Burns, The Man’ [poetry, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Celtic in Scotland’ [essay, ENG]
  • W. J. Couper: ‘The “King’s Press” at Perth, 1715-6’ [essay, ENG]
  • H. E. G. Rope: ‘Small Nations Overlooked [poetry, ENG]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Chronicles of the Quarters’: ‘The National Memorial and the Peace Conference’, ‘The International and the Peace Conference’, ‘The Freedom of the Seas’, ‘The Case for the True Freedom of the Seas’, “The Alternative to a “Clean Peace”’, ‘The International and the Kaiser’, ‘The League of Nations’, ‘The German Collapse’, ‘The Peace Conference and the Dominions’, ‘The Russian Soviets’, ‘The Forestry Question’, ‘A National Appeal’ [by the Scottish Labour Party: William Westwood, B. Shaw, the Highland Land League: Angus MacDonald, G. J. Bruce], ‘Autonomy Statistics’, ‘The Coming of the Cloud’, ‘The Spreading of the Cloud’, ‘The Democratic Press’, ‘The Doune Scandal’ [short articles, ENG]
  • Correspondence: G. M. Fraser: ‘The Celtic in Scotland’ [letter, ENG]

  • [without attribution]: ‘The Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘Petition National de l’Ecosse’ [petition, FR]
  • William Diack: ‘Now for the Next Election’ [essay, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Celt in Ireland’ [essay, ENG]
  • Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar: ‘How Would It Do?’ [prose, ENG]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Chronicles of the Quarters’: ‘The National Memorial’, ‘The Memorial and the Peace Conference’, ‘The Paris Conference and Mr Wilson’, ‘“Acid Tests for the “League of Nations” and Mr Wilson’, ‘Germany and the Congress of Paris’, ‘The Germans and War’s Substitutes’, ‘Physical Force and the “League of Nations”, ‘Physical Force as Ultimate Sanction’, ‘The International Value of “Direct Action”’, ‘Scotland and the Bern Conference’, ‘Nationalism, Socialism, and Materialism’, ‘The Password is, “Drum-ceatà”’, ‘Messrs. Dilly and Dally in Ireland’ [short articles, ENG]
  • Correspondence: H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Celt in Scotland’ [letter, ENG]

  • [without attribution]: ‘Moral versus Physical Force’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Towards the Commonwealth’ [essay, ENG]
  • ‘One of the Onlookers’: ‘Home Rule’ [essay, ENG]
  • R. T. Clark: ‘An Episode of the War’ [play, SC]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Great Britain Myth’ [essay, ENG]
  • Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar: ‘How Would It Do?’ [prose, ENG]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Chronicles of the Quarters’: ‘The Paris Peace’, ‘The Tragedies of the “Fourteen Points” and of the “League of Nations”’, ‘The Author of the “Fourteen Points”’, ‘A Moral for Mr Wilson, and All Others Whom It May Concern’, ‘The “Baptism of Blood”’, ‘The Old O. B. Diers and the Young O. B. Diers’, ‘The National Memorial’, ‘Home Rule’, ‘Bad Morals and Bad Housing’, ‘The “British” Nomenclature and Its Tainted Source’, ‘New Ties for an Old Union of Hearts and Heads and Hands’ [short articles, ENG]

  • [without attribution]: ‘The Folk of the Grail’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Recent Land Sales’ [essay, ENG]
  • Charles Menmuir: ‘St. Andrew in Lay and Legend’ [essay, ENG]
  • D. M. N. C. [Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich]: ‘The Land of His Sires’ [play, ENG; translated from Gaelic by Ruaraidh Erskine]
  • Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar: ‘How Would It Do?’ [prose, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Wee Wee German Lairdie’ [essay, ENG]
  • Camille Le Mercier d’ Erm: ‘The Renaissance of Brittany’ [essay, ENG; translated by Ithel ab Morgan]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Chronicles of the Quarters’: ‘Scotland and the League of Nations’, ‘Direct and Indirect Action’, ‘The Future of Direct and Indirect Action’, ‘The “British” Nomenclature’, ‘Internationalism and “Britishism”’, ‘The Persian Agreement’, ‘Home Rule’, ‘The Celtic Congress’, ‘The English Chief Secretary for Ireland’, ‘The Future of Socialism’, ‘Mr Neil MacLean and the English National Anthem’ [short articles, ENG]

  • [without attribution]: ‘The Folk of the Grail’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘Scottish and Irish Labour Colleges’ [essay, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Teaching of Scottish History’ [essay, ENG]
  • Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar: ‘How Would It Do?’ [prose, ENG]
  • J. M. Murdoch: ‘“The House with the Green Shutters”’ [essay, ENG; obituary for George Douglas Brown]
  • Louis A. Barbe: ‘How the Bass Was Held’ [essay, ENG]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Chronicles of the Quarters’: ‘The National Committee’, ‘The National Committee and the League of Nations’, ‘The National Committee and its Future’, ‘More Work for the National Committee’, ‘Mr Lloyd George’s Set Speeches’, ‘The Coalition’, ‘Wheels within Wheels’, ‘Policies and Conspiracies’, ‘The Great Conspiracy’, ‘The Conspiracy – Its Managers, Its Tools and Dupes’, ‘The European Coalition at Work’, ‘Socialism and the Bourgeois Dream’, ‘The Bourgeois Paradise’, ‘The “New World” Defined’, ‘The European Coalition and the European Strike’ [short articles, ENG]

  • [without attribution]: ‘The Folk of the Grail’ [essay, ENG]
  • William Diack: ‘The Scottish Mines’ [essay, ENG]
  • W. D. [William Diack]: ‘The Moral of Paisley’ [essay, ENG]
  • Louis A. Barbe: ‘A Royal Frolic’ [essay, ENG]
  • H. C. MacNeacail: ‘The Scottish Language’ [essay, ENG]
  • Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar: ‘How Would It Do?’ [prose, ENG]
  • H. E. G. Rope: ‘Eire gu brath’ [poetry, ENG]
  • W. G. Blaikie Murdoch: ‘William Thom, the Weaver’ [essay, ENG]
  • [Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Chronicles of the Quarters’: ‘The Irish Cause and the Irish Labour Party’, ‘Is It a Deal?’, ‘An Anti-Imperial League’, ‘Mr Wilson’s Recovery’, ‘Celtic Philosophy’, ‘The New World and the New Electioneering’, ‘Dictatering’, ‘Scottish Land Nationalisers’, ‘A Certain Liveliness about Nothing’ [short articles, ENG]

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