20 JULY 1878, page 19

Old Edinburgh.*

BOOKS of folk-lore and antiquarian gossip are often very enter- taining reading. They require no effort of mind, they put the imagination to no great strain, and seldom or never......

An Inland Voyage.• Two Friends Start In Two Canoes, The

' Cigarette' and the Arethusa,' for a voyage on some Belgian and French rivers• Their adventures are not remarkable, the sights seen and described are neither new nor strange,......