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issued by our neighbours across the Channel. V The new. number of the Englishwoman’s Review has init a great deal that is interesting to women. Thereis a description of an old Scotch lady, who happily is still alive, though she has never had the recognition ■: that she deserves for the benefits that she has conferred on students of archteology. Miss Christian Maclagan has• spent a long life in travelling up and down her own country, studying the records of past ages left on the sculptured stones, not only the later carvings of pre-Reformation days, but those of Christian and pre-Christian eras. The difficulty of taking rubbings from these stones will be appreciated by anyone who has tried to do it. It is all very well to cake rubbings from ancient brasses, that present a smooth surface, and are often on the ground, lying horizontally ; but let a novice attempt broken stone3 in all manner of awkward corners, and at different -heights, and she will make her lowliest, obeisance to Miss Christian Maclagan. This lady invented a mode of taking rubbings which is her own little secret, but the value of her wbrk is to be seen in 297 examples presented by her to the British Museum. The narrowness of Scotch appreciation of such work will, it is to be hoped, soon become past history. In the. present it means that the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland offered Miss Maclagan associate-£hip,. but stood rigidly by an old* rule that denied women membership. Very properly, this great scholar took herself and her name away from the society. A womanpf many accomplishments, this archceologist has. lust finished a large oak case, designed and carved .by herself, to hold her rubbings; no small achievement for• a lady of 80 years of age.AURORA.-
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London Mercury
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 26, 1895
Page 7
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