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We are always glad to chronicle the appearance of volumes

devoted to local history and antiquities. In The Mearns of Old (W. Hodge and Co., 21s. net) Mr. James Crabb Watt gives us a very learned and valuable history of Kincardine down to the seventeenth century, the fruit of thirty years of reading and local investigation.—Mr. W. Huyshe's Grey Galloway (David Douglas, 7s. 6d. net) is a slighter work, the outcome of "an absorbing year of travel and research" in the interesting but hackneyed country which it describes.