Nxw EDITIONs.—Murray's Handbook to Scotland. (E. Stanford. 10s. 6d.)—This is
an eighth edition, a fact which is so conclusive a proof of continued popular favour that criticism is unnecessary. One remark we may make. We quite agree with the observation that the Highlands of Scotland " ought by no means to engross the attention " ; but the remote places have this claim for more detailed notice, that if they do not get it here, they do not get it at all. It is easy to find all one wants to learn about Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Stirling, &c. ; but how are we to repair the defect when the Island of Lewis is dismissed in less than two pages ? There is, it is true, something about the fishing in the island elsewhere.— Tom Brown at Oxford. With Illustrations by Sydney P. Hall. (Macmillan and Co. 2s.)—The reprints and new editions now number, we see, nineteen.
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