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The Provost of Glendookie. By Andrew Smith Robertson. (Oliphant, Anderson,

and Ferrier.)—Here we have " Glimpses of a Fife Man" in the old weaving days when men worked at the loom in their own houses. One Saunders, who rises from a humble station to be Provost of his native town, is the central figure of the story,—if story it may be called, for the narrative is of the slenderest. But though the incident is scanty, the pic- tures of life, the drawing of character, and the occasional glimpses of nature that we get, are admirable. Any one who reads The Provost of Glendookie ought to be the better for it, so full of kindly wisdom and charity is it.

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