19 MARCH 1864, Page 23

Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood By Hugh Miller. (Adam and Charles

Black.)—This concluding volume of the series of works fit for publication left by the lamented author is in no way unworthy of its predecessor;. The geological essays on the neighbourhood of Edinburgh need no recommendation from us, although we may mention one on the Bass Rock as of peculiar and curious interest. To these are added a few papers on certain events in the modern history of the city, such as the visit of the Queen and the funeral of Chalmers ; and they appear in season just when the journal-the Witness-in which they were origi- nally published, and which the genius of the author supported, has ceased to exist.