Quiet Waters : Essays on Some Streams of Scotland. By
" H. W. H.' (J. and II. Parlane, Paisley.)—This little book, of a hundred and seventy pages, has, no doubt, been a labour of love, and will have sympathetic readers in the lovers of rivers. In the words of the author, "always the voice of a river sounds like the voice of a friend," and "in its shady silence it is full of fine accords." There is much poetic sentiment, finding expression in poetic prose, occasionally rather "long drawn out," as in "such silent, sympathetic, unfolding, admonitory, reminiscent greenness of hills." The local history of the streams is discoursed of, and that of the Yarrow is, as might be expected, copiously illustrated by its ballad poetry. The book would make a convenient companion by the streams which it tells of, and will afford an hour's pleasant reading and reflection to kindred Spirits.
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