From our next communication, it will be seen that the Scottish
Antiquaries, whose zeal and intelligence in the preservation and
illustration of objects of national interest, are beyond all praise,
are working in the same direction; and although we have not seen the
_Origines Parochiales_, we can readily believe in the great value of a
work of such a character when undertaken by the Bannatyne Club.
It may interest some of your "Monumental" and "Ecclesiological"
correspondents to be informed that in 1834 there was collected and
published by D. Macvean, bookseller, Glasgow, a volume of _Epitaphs and
Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland_. Also, that there has just been
published by Lizars, Edinburgh, for the Bannatyne Club, the first volume
of the _Origines Parochiales Scotiæ_.
The former of these books (_Epitaphs_, &c.) is perhaps of no great
value, being badly selected and worse arranged; but the latter
(_Origines_, &c.) seems to be exactly such a work as W. J. D. R. (Vol.
iii., p. 314.) has in his mind's eye for England.