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South-West of Scotland." It is fall of statistical and other facts, and the opinions expressed by the writer are moderate almost to a fault. The flactuations in the rent of stock-farms in some parts of Scotland are positively startling. An Ayrshire farm was let about the year 1858 at 2600. In 1874, the rent rose to 21,280. Three years later, the rent of the farm fell to 2830; and now it has been let once more for 2620. The rent of another farm, which in 1874 rose from 280 to 2200, has once more gone back to280. M. Dirnetrios Bikelaa writes a half.historical, half-apologetic article on "The
Byzantine Empire," and Mr. Legge, a Canadian gentleman, the first of two papers on the vexed fisheries question. Among the other contents of a varied number of the Bcottishl Review are a solidly informative essay on "Inland Transport," and a brightly descriptive one on "The Bayreuth Festival."
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