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For several years the Grammar of the Gaelic language by the Rev. Dr. Stewart of Moulin has been out of print. This has been a source of regret to scholars and students of that tongue. Not but that there are other Grammars of real value, which it would be unjust either to ignore or to depreciate, and which have served, and are serving, an excellent purpose in connection with Celtic Literature. But the Grammar of Dr. Stewart has peculiar features of its own which give it a permanent value. It is distinguished by its simplicity, conciseness, and philosophical accuracy. No Grammar of any language bears on its pages the marks of real and profound scholarship, in so far as it goes, more than does the Grammar of Dr. Stewart. One cannot read a sentence of it without seeing how carefully he had collected his materials, and with what judgment, caution, and sagacity he has compared them and drawn his conclusions. His discussions upon the Article, the Noun, the Verb, and the Preposition, are ample evidence of this. It is no doubt true that a much fuller discussion is, with the more abundant resources of modern scholarship, competent and desirable, but, so far as he goes, Dr. Stewart's treatment of the subject is of a masterly character.

That there are defects to be found in the work is very true. On the subject of Syntax his disquisitions are deficient in fulness, and there is a want of grammatical exercises throughout. It was at first thought desirable by the publishers and their advisers to remedy these defects by introducing fuller notices on the subject of Syntax, and a considerable number of grammatical exercises from other sources open to them. But it was finally deemed best in every view of it to give Stewart's work just as he had left it, and that is done here with the exception of a list of subscribers' names in the introduction. Messrs Maclachlan and Stewart are doing the literary community a service in republishing this volume, and thanks are specially due to the Royal Celtic Society of Edinburgh, a society which has done much to foster the interests of education in the Highlands, and which has given substantial aid towards the accomplishment of this undertaking.

Thos. M^cLauchlan.

Edinburgh, 1st August 1876.

Introduction.	PAGE
PART I.
Of Pronunciation and Orthography,	1
PART II.
OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
Chap.	I.—	Of the Article,	37
Chap.	II.—	Of Nouns,	37
		Of Gender,	38
		Of Declension,	43
Chap.	III.—	Of Adjectives,	55
		Of Numeral Adjectives,	59
Chap.	IV.—	Of Pronouns,	61
Chap.	V.—	Of Verbs,	65
		Formation of the Tenses,	76
		Use and import of the Moods and Tenses,	85
		Irregular Verbs,	95
		Defective Verbs,	99
		Reciprocating state of Verbs,	102
		Impersonal use of Verbs,	105
		Auxiliary Verbs,	107
Chap.	VI.—	Of Adverbs,	109
Chap.	VII.—	Of Prepositions,	116
		Idiomatic phrases,	125
Chap.	VIII.—	Of Conjunctions,	134
Chap.	IX.—	Of Interjections,	136
PART III.
OF SYNTAX.
Chap.	I.—	Of Concord,	137
Sect. 1. Of the agreement of the Article with a Noun,	137
Sect. 2. Of the agreement of an Adjective with a Noun,	141
Sect. 3. Of the agreement of a Pronoun with its Antecedent,	146
Sect. 4. Of the agreement of a Verb with its Nominative,	149
Sect. 5. Of the agreement of one Noun with another,	152
Chap.	II.—	Of Government,	154
Sect. 1. Of the Government of Nouns,	154
Sect. 2. Of the Government of Adjectives,	159
Sect. 3. Of the Government of Verbs,	159
Sect. 4. Of the Government of Adverbs,	160
Sect. 5. Of the Government of Prepositions,	160
Sect. 6. Of the Government of Conjunctions,	162
PART IV.
OF DERIVATION AND COMPOSITION.
Chap.	I.—	Of Derivation,	164
Chap.	II.—	Of Composition,	168
Exercises in Reading, &c.,	175