People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Modern Criticism and Preaching of the Old Testament (1901)
Encyclopaedia Biblica (contributor) (1903)
The Forgiveness of Sins and other Sermons (1905)
Jerusalem: The Topography Economics and History from the Earliest Times to A. I. 1896 1898)
The Life of Henry Drummond (1899).

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1916 and was knighted in the same year. In 1909 he was appointed principal of the University of Aberdeen a post he held until his retirement in 1935.