Margridel. By David Storrar Meldrum. (Blackwood and Sons.) —This "fireside
history of a Fifeshire family" has the look of being largely a transcript from life. It is a tragic tale—we can get nothing else, it would seem, nowadays but tragic tales—but it is far from relying for its effectiveness on vulgar sensational horrors. There is more than one noble figure in it, and it is written with no common powor.---The Raiders. By S. R. Crockett. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is also a Scottish tale, not from Fife. shire, but from the Western Coast. We are bound to say we have found it a little long ; graphic as they are, the descriptions in particular are drawn a little too much, in our judgment ; but there is no lack of force and freshness in it, while both the hero, who tells the story, and "May Mischief," who may be called the heroine, are individualised with a good deal of power.
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