Alma Mater's Mirror, St. Andrews, 1887. Edited by T. S.
Baynes and Lewis Campbell, Professors of the University. (T. and A. Con- stable, Edinburgh.)—This is a very charming and readable little volume. Mr. R. L. Stevenson prefixes some delightful verses, showing how— "To make this earth, our hermitage, A cheerful and a changeful page, God's bright and intricate cleric° Of days and seasons doth suffice?'
Mr. Andrew Lang confesses his academical shortcomings with a pleasant humour, giving us, among other things, his experiences at the Debating Society. He had the temerity to say of Sir William Wallace :—" And this is Scotland's chosen hero ! Why, gentlemen, Nero was, comparatively, a Christian martyr !" It is not surprising that after this he conceived that his "personal safety and dignity" would be best consulted by withdrawing from the debates. There are recollections of Principals Tulle& and Shan' p, records of Aberdeen Professors in old times, especially of those who had the good luck to entertain Samuel Johnson in 1773. This excellent paper comes from the pen of Professor Campbell. Among the misoellanea are some very pretty verses. Mr. Lang contribates "The Grave of Orpheus," good enough, but not ad rem. As some of the papers have appeared elsewhere, why did we not have his "Aimee 1Slatres" ?
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