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Philologists should be interested by Sir James Wilson's excellent study

upon Lowland Scotch as Spoken in the Lower Strathearn District of Perthshire (Oxford University Press, 5s.

net). This is one of the first accounts that have been written of a single Scottish dialect—such works having usually treated of the Lowlands as a whole—and Sir James Wilson has done his work exhaustively. The system of transliteration he has adopted is so simple that the book should also appeal to lay- men, who will be delighted, for instance, with the examples of children's rhymes which he gives. Here is the English Version of one of them:— " The brown bull of Baberton Went over the bill to Haberton,

And dashed its head between two stones And came white milk home."