lathe°Ws Abbey. By. Alan Reid. (Romanes, Dunfermline. ls. 6d. &
2s.)—This "notable Fife-shire ruin" is on an island in the Firth of Forth, lying, to speak roughly, between Aberdour in Fifeshire and Cramond rn Midlothian. St. Colomba is said to have founded a cell there; there was certainly a hermit in the place in the twelfth century, for he entertained Alexander III., who estab lished a monastic house in the island. Mr. Reid gives an account of the foundation, of its history and its present condition, acknowledging his obligation to Dr. Ross's " History of Aber- dour and Inchcohne." — With this we may mention The Village Church in the Olden Time, by Harry Gill (H. B. Saxton, 2s. 6d. net). Mr. Gill has put together a very interesting account, the result of personal inspection of various village churches, describing the present and restoring the past.
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