The Arms of the Baronial and Police Burghs of Scotland.
By John Marquess of Bute, J. H. Stevenson, and H. W. Lonsdale. (W. Blackwood and Sons. .R.2 2s. net.)—This may be described as a supplementary volume to the "Royal and Parliamentary Burghs of Scotland," brought out by the same authors (Mr. Stevenson taking the place of Mr. J. R. N. Macphail) and under the care of the same publishers. It contains somewhere about three hundred coats-of-arms, or an intimation that no coat-of- arms exists, or, not unfrequantly, the suggestion of heraldic bearings that would suit the circumstances. The volume does not promise much interest to the reader; but it has more than one would think. There is no little genealogical and historical information in it ; there is much that the student of heraldry will prize. The authors, too, now and then indulge in a gentle jest at the errors, heraldic or other, with which they have been brought in contact in the course of their inquiries.
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