Glengarry's Way and Other Studies. By William Roughead. (Edinburgh :
W. Green. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Roughead has collected some more of his fascinating studies in Scottish criminology. The title-piece is an account of a most discredit- able duel in which Scott's friend Glengarry killed a fellow-officer in 1798. Next comes a note on plagium or man-stealing, to illustrate the kidnapping of Harry Bertram in Guy Mannering. There follow two learned papers on numerous Scottish cases of poisoning, including the strange case at Dalkeith in 1911, where a son tried to poison all the guests celebrating his parents' silver wedding and then committed suicide. We may mention, too, the case of James M‘Kean, a brutal murderer who was the last person to be condemned to death by Lord Brasfield, as well as the attractive paper on " The Bicentenary of Lord Brasfield " —born in May, 1722—which we noticed on its appearance in the Juridical Review. The book is admirably written.
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