Cameos from English History. By the Author of "The Heir
of Redelyffe." (Macmillan and Co.)—This is the eighth volume of the "Cameo Series." It carries on the story as far as "the end of the Stewarts," and includes rather more than a century. It begins with the persecution of the Covenanters after the Restora- tion and the "Pentland Rising" that followed, and ends with the execution of the rebel Lords after the '45. There is no need to estimate Miss Yonge's work, the quality of which will be known to all our readers. She has a subject full of picturesque occasions, and does not fail to make use of them. What a graphic little touch is the story she tells of the way in which the treachery of Murray of Broughton to Lord Levet was regarded. Long after he had business with Walter Scott's father. Mrs. Scott's curiosity was excited by his visits, and one day, anxious to get a nearer view of him, she brought in a cup of tea for his refresh- ment. Mr. Scott looked on while he drank it without speaking. But when he was gone he dashed the cup to the ground. His son always kept the saucer nailed up in his study.
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