SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice this columns does not sweessar4y preclude subsequent review.]
Stories of the Border Marches. By John and Jean Lang. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 5s. net.)—This is a very readable collection of old Border tales from Chambers and Scott and other sources. Kinmont Willie and Grisell Home, Frank Stokoe and mad Jack Hall of Otterburn, aro familiar figures of whom one is always glad to read. The sheep- stealers and highwaymen, illicit distillers and other picturesque ruffians, who abounded on the Borders not so much more than a century ago have gone for ever, but the Border farmer retains his vigorous indi- viduality, and there ia still good sport on the Borders, as the authors remind us in their tale—almost too good to be true—of a seventy-pound salmon.
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