27 MARCH 1920, Page 22

Readers of the late Professor Hume Brown's books on Scottish

history may be glad to know of a graceful memoir of the his- torian written by his friend Dr. George Macdonald and re- printed from the Proceedings of the British Academy (H. Milford, Is. net). Dr. Macdonald recalls him as " an ideal scholar, a companion of endless and undefinable charm."