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The Mac Callum More. By the Rev. Holy Smith. (Bemrose.)—This

is one of the crowd of little books which the marriage of Lord Lorne has called forth. It is tolerably readable, and has anyhow the merit of a reasonable size. If the reader will skip the first twenty pages, which contain unprofitable talk about the derivation of the title MacCallum More," he will find some information about the Lords of Lorne and Argyll. The history of tho family shows one peculiarity as notably as does that of the house of Norfolk, namely, how the tenure of life by great nobles has changed from the precarious to the safe. Scarcely one chief of the family lived beyond middle ago till we come to Archibald, first duke, and son of the Argyll who was executed for his share in the rising of Monmouth.