"A few enthusiasts have amused themselves with deriving the
Highland kilt from one of the dresses of the Romans, to which
the resemblance is sufficiently vague. These worthy antiquaries
forget the anger they feel at the bare notion that the Romans
ever interfered with the Highlanders...."

"The Roman theory of the kilt is, indeed, demolished at one
blow, by the fact, that this article of dress in an independent
form, or the philibeg, (feala beg), is of very modern
introduction, and, what is still worse, that it was the
invention of an Englishman. It was first introduced at Tyndrum
about a century past, (_this was published in_ 1824), by
Rawlinson, the superintendent or agent for the lead mines; who,
finding his labourers encumbered with their belted plaids,
taught them to separate the two into the present form."

[Greek: S]

_Derivation of Penny._--Not from the Celtic _Pen_, but from the German
_Pfennig_, _pf_ being softened into _p_, as in _pfau, peacock_, and _ig_
into _y_, as in _hereig, hearty_.

B.H.K.


_Scarf_ (Vol. ii, p. 126.).--The custom of the Church for many
centuries, which is the authority for the wearing of the scarf, or
stole, sanctions the use of it by all orders of the clergy now existing
in the Church of England, but with certain distinctions in the manner of