THE ROMANCE OF THE EDINBURGH STREETS. By Mary D. Steuart.
(Methuen. Is. 6d.) • Tim book would not only be immensely useful to the sight- seer in the most romantic city in the British Isles, but will, we feel sure, give great pleasure to very many among its inhabi- tants. The intense fascination of small capital cities will soon be a thing of the past. The old Edinburgh and Scott's Edinburgh possessed it in perfection. Edinburgh put a stamp upon her inhabitants, rich and poor, good and bad, the criminal and his judge, the man of letters and his readers, and further back the rough bards and the rougher populace, saved from something like savagery by their amazing intel- ligence and sense of spiritual things. A really good guide- book can be very good reading indeed, and such a book is the one before us.
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