With the Eyes of Youth, and other Sketches. By William
Black. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 55. net.)—Here we have a gleaning of Mr. Black's work, with nothing very important in it, but yet with much that is interesting and characteristic. The essay that stands first was the last thing which Black wrote. It is auto- biographical, as are the second and third papers, the "Highland Wedding" being specially significant as having to do with a subject in which the novelist made his chief successes. After- wards we have four letters sent home by Black when he was correspondent to the Star during the Seven Weeks' War. They are described as "Sidelights on War," but Black was not exactly at his best as a war correspondent. The "Conversation with Carlyle" has some very graphic touches. There are gleanings which are better than vintages.
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