11 MAY 1867, Page 20

The Rob Roy on the Baltic. By J. Macgregor, M.A.

(Low, Son, and; Marston.)—There is not the same freshness in Mr. Macgregor's account of his second cruise as in his first little book, which we reviewed at length. And yet we should expect more from a cruise through the lakes of Sweden and along the Baltic coast (in a steamer, it is true) to Copenhagen. Mr. Macgregor is as good-humoured as ever : he meets with the same hairbreadth 'scapes, he has grandmothers brought to. the shore on their grandsons' backs to watch him, he drags his canoe. throughfields and forests, he distributes tracts, if they are not reduced to powder by being packed up with hard biscuits. But there was a sameness even in his first work, and his observation was so much con- fined to his vessel that he could not sketch us enough of the new countries he visited. This time he is even more cautious.