10 DECEMBER 1881, Page 23

Wilson's Tales of the Borderers. Selected and edited, with bio-

graphical notices of the contributors, by J. Tait. (The Edinburgh

Publishing Co. ; and Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—In this edition, Mr. Tait has collected, within the compass of one compact volume and in a readable form, sixty-one of what he considers the most entertaining and instructive tales contained in the original work.