style of the essay, that an inexperienced reader mi g ht be
apt to An Old Kirk Chronicle : being a History of Auldhame, Tyning• think it was easily written. On the contrary, there are traces name, and TVhitekirk. in East Lothian. By the Rev. P. IL throughout of the most arduous research, and, indeed, only by Waddell, B.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. Waddell, minister strenuous labour could so finished a piece of workmanship have of the united parish described in this volume, has accomplished been produced. We are glad therefore to welcome this reprint of a work which must have proved laborious and costly. His it in a portable form. Three additional essays on the dramatist industry is worthy of praise, and the more so as his minute —" What Shakespeare Learnt at School," " Shakespearian Gies- parochial researches are not intended to attract many readers. caries," and " New Shakespearian Interpretations "—are also well The volume, of which only two hundred copies are issued, is pro- worthy of preservation in book-form. It is to be regretted that (laced in fine style, the paper, print, and engravings being of high the unity of the volume should be injured by the insertion of an excellence. There are upwards of twenty illustrations ; but it is irrelevant article on English Dictionaries. Shakespeare, who difficult to understand what interest can attach to the delineation nearly fills the book, should be allowed to have the full possession of pewter basins, communion flagons in pewter, and communion of it. A short biographical preface by Professor Lewis Campbell cups in silver of the most commonplace description. The gives the leading facts in Dr. Baynes's honourable and energetic signatures of ministers, too, wholly unknown to fame, can scarcely
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