12th May 1896; assistant at Lady Glenorchy's, Edinburgh; ord. to Turriff 7th April 1897; trans. to Alloa and Tullibody 12th Feb. 1901; trans. and adm. (assistant and successor) 16th Feb. 1911. Marr. 8th June 1897, Jennie Hall, daugh. of John Alexander Reid, New Kelso, Strathcarron, Ross-shire, and has issue-Hector MacLean, born 31st Oct. 1900. Publications-God's Altar Stairs (Aberdeen, 1899); In Love's Garden (London, 1901); The Grey Mother (London, 1903); The Communion Table (London, 1903); Alloa and Tullibody (Alloa, 1903); Bye Still Waters (Edinburgh, 1904); edited Metrical Psalms and Paraphrases (Paisley, 1906); Smith's Summer in Skye (London, 1907); Stowe's Dred (London, 1907); The Tryst (London, 1907); Edragil, 1745 (London, 1907); Attic and Elizabethan Tragedy (London, 1908); Moran of Kildally (London 1909); In Poets' Corner (London, 1910); Oscar (Edinburgh, 1911); Literature and Life (London, 1912); History of Britain for Schools, George I. to George V. (Edinburgh, 1912); Carlyle (The People's Books; Edinburgh, 1912); The House of Sands (London, 1912); Gates of Prayer (London, 1912); The Minister's Manual (London, 1912); Green Meadows (Edinburgh, 1912); Scottish Life and Poetry (London, 1912); Hills of Home (Edinburgh, 1913); Burns (The Nation's Library, 1914); The Saviour of the World (Edinburgh, 1914).

THE TOLBOOTH PARISH.

[Erected by the Town Council 24th Dec. 1641, the west portion of St Giles adjoining the Tolbooth being appropriated for its use. The present building was erected 1840-3, in terms of the arrangement between the Commissioners of H.M Treasury and the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of Edinburgh. The latter body, by Act 7 & 8 George IV., cap. 76, entitled "An Act for carrying into effect certain improvements within the city of Edinburgh and adjacent to the same," were authorised to discontinue two of the places of worship under the roof of St Giles, and were at the same time required to erect two additional

churches in place thereof, including a church then in course of erection in St Vincent Street (now known as St Stephen's), the second church to be erected within the bounds of the ancient royalty. The Tolbooth was erected as the second of these churches. The arrangement under which it was erected is narrated in the disposition by the Commissioners of Improvements of the City of Edinburgh, with consent of the Lord Provost and Council, in favour of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, etc., dated 12th May 1846. That disposition proceeds on the narrative that it having been found necessary to provide a suitable hall for the meetings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, an arrangement was entered into between the Lords Commissioners of H.M. Treasury and the Lord Provost and Council, whereby the latter body agreed to pay the sum of £6000 towards the erection of an edifice on a certain site near the Castlehill, which should serve both for an assembly hall and a church, provided the Treasury would agree to defray the remainder of the expenditure, including the price of the ground (which was fixed at £3600), and make over to the Lord Provost and Council the aisle of St Giles, in which the General Assembly was wont to meet, to be used as a city church in all time coming. The disposition contains the terms and conditions on which it was granted, which include, inter alia, that the whole building is to be appropriated to the uses of the General Assembly during its sittings, that on all other occasions the whole of the building, except the church and such accommodation as may be required for it as a place of public worship, shall be appropriated to ecclesiastical purposes connected with the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and of the Commission of that Church, and of the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, and of the Presbytery of Edinburgh, and that on all other occasions (except during the sittings of the General Assembly) the church, with such accommodation as may be necessary for its use as a place of public worship, shall be used as one of the city churches in connection with the Church of Scotland.