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Elgin Past and Present. By Herbert B. Mackintosh. (J. D.

Tendon. 10s. 6d. net.)—This handsome volume is in part designed to fill a gap in the education of the youth of Elgin, "by affording them some knowledge of the historical associations of their early home and its surroundings." It is an excellent plan to begin the ;Andy of the world with such a " regional survey" of a district that one can explore for oneself —so collating the obvious facts with their literary inter- pretation. Mr. Mackintosh seems to have collected all that is known about Elgin, and his book is a credit to the burgh in which it has been written and published.