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Scotland. By R. L. Mackie. (G. G. Harrap. 108. 6d.

net.)--Mr. Mackie writes foi the general public, but he is in no wise to be confounded with the untutored-patriots or " common Burnsites," as Henley called them. who have too ofteli,,zerverted Scottish history. This book, which

ends with the year 1832, is obviously the product of careful researoh and independent thinking. The mediaeval chapters are excellent, there is no false sentiment in the chapter on Mary Queen of Scots, and there is comparatively little bias in the treatment of the seventeenth- century religions problems or of the Highland question. Mr. MaokM gives due prominence to social history, and his photographic illustrations are remarkably good.