Scraps. By Lord Saltonn. 2 vols. (Longmans.)—These Scraps, or, as
the author puts it in his second title, "Scenes, Tales, and Adventures from the Memories of my Earlier Days," consist mainly of military and sporting reminiscences. As Lord Saltoun seems never to have had any opportunity of going on active service, the military reminiscences and the sporting are very much the same thing, only that the scene is changed from the Highlands to foreign stations,—to Gibraltar, where the author's regiment was stationed when he first joined the service ; and to India, to which country an exchange took him. At Gibraltar he found fox-hunting, and in India all kinds of wild sport. At home in the Highlands, his themes
are deer-.talking, salmon-fishing, &c., though here the most interesting of his recollections are of "Highland Poachers," a class of whom he writes with a good-humour which is exceeding creditable in a landed proprietor. The book is one which is outside our critical province, but we can testify to its being written in a kindly and pleasant fa.shion.
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