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Anent Old Edinburgh. By Alison Hay Dunlop. Edited by her

Brothers. (R. H. Somerville, Edinburgh.)—These vignettes of Edinburgh life are drawn with extraordinary vigour and pre- cision. Nothing could be better than the story of the snow- balling match between students and the " trades," for Miss Dunlop had a dramatic talent, and speaks very veraciously through the lips of John Scott, Master of the " Old Cartwright Dole," when he talks of his doings at Edinburgh. It is especially admirable when the " auld Adam " suddenly shows itself in a certain Johnstone, under a blow from one of the City Guard, and makes him throw the man with a " grand fa'," learnt long ago from Rob Ruthven, at Hawick Common Riding.