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Wonderful Weans. By Mackenzie MacBride. (T. Fisher Unwin. ls. net.)—We

must own that, in our lamentable Southern ignorance, we find these stories a little hard to follow. Our Northern neighbours have many dialects, of which the Aberdeen is, we take it, the most difficult. This seems to be the Glasgow tongue, and it is not much better. But the book is certainly amusing, whenever we can reach the meaning. Here is "oor Tam's" opinion of the kilt. " It may be a vera bonnie dress for men, and the Govan polis look awfi gran' in't, but it's nae favourite o' mine. There's nether' like a stoot pair o' breeks when y'r mither's angert ye !"