Gilbert Hay's Prose Works II: The Buke of the Law of Armys. Edited by Jonathan A. Glenn. Scottish Text Society, Fifth Series, 3. Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 2005. Pp. xii + 401. £30.

Jonathan A. Glenn's edition of Gilbert Hay's Prose Works in three volumes was a much needed updating of the previous one by J. H. Stevenson in 1901–14, also published by the Scottish text Society (First Series, 44, 62). Glenn has at his disposal many more texts and resources than Stevenson had about one hundred years ago. the outcome is a more accurate rendering of Hay's works, the available sources and contextual materials. After the publication of volume III, The Buke of the ordre of Knychthede and The Buke of the Governaunce of Princis (Scottish text Society, Fourth Series, 21), Glenn approaches The Buke of the Law of Armys with the same rigor and inquisitive eye.

Edward Donald Kennedy
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill