Three Scottish Heroines. By E. Traice. (T. Nelson and Sons.
ls. 6d.)—The adventures of Lady Nithsdale, Grizel Hume, and Grizel Cochrane are very clearly and brightly related. One would like to have known how they managed to conceal Sir Patrick Hume in the house, or, rather, to construct such a retreat as the family presumed would escape detection. Mrs. Traice seems to have had her doubts as to its being a safe hiding. place. The account of Grizel's interview with the gaoler at the Tolbooth is very good; the dialect is wonderful. Grizel Cochrane's capture of the mail-bags is also entertaining reading. Tales of this type never pall, even on readers of novels. The moral, " You never know what you can do till you try," comes out so well in the presence of mind girls and young women can show in times of danger. For this reason alone a girl should read Three Scottish Heroines.
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