Scottish Rivers. By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. (Simpkin, Marshall, and
Co.)—This is the last book that was written by a contem- porary of Scott, Jeffrey, Cockburn, and Wilson, who, though not of their intellectual calibre, was yet respected by them as being a man of capacity and. culture. He wrote one romance of Scotch history which is not yet forgotten, "The Wolf of Badenoch," and he has given a very graphic account of that extraordinary and almost unique catastrophe, the Moray floods of 1829. This volume shows him to have been an enthusiastic lover of Nature, and a keen antiquarian. It by no means covers the whole ground sug- gested by its title. On the contrary, it begins with the Jordan— why, the English reader must discover for himself—and then, having dealt with the Tweed, with its tributaries, and the Tyne, it comes to an end. As it stands, however, it is a most readable work, discharging all the functions of a high-class guide-book, and steeped in romance, Scott, and Border history.
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