2 MAY 1896, Page 25

The Harp of the Scottish Covenant. Collected and edited by

Sohn Macfarlane. (Alexander Gardner.)—These collections of verse have always a special interest when they are centred in one object. The "Solemn League and Covenant" is one of the most notable facts in Scottish history, and has inspired some very notable utterances. But why has not the editor given us something of a guide, chronological and other, to the authors of the eighty odd pieces which he has here gathered together P Some of the names are, but perhaps ought not to be, strange to us. We should like to know who among them had an actual part and lot in the matter, beyond the common interest which all Scotchmen may claim in national heroism.