2 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 12

The Carved Stones of Islay. By Robert C. Graham. (James

MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—This is the book of an expert, and it would probably be difficult, if not impossible, to find another expert qualified to criticise it. We must be content to give a brief description of the volume. It contains an introductory chapter, giving a general account of these interesting remains, and another which supplies the history of the locality. Then follows a detailed description, illustrated with photographic repro- ductions. Mr. Graham deserves well of his country, all the more because many of these relics of the past are in a process of decay, for which it is difficult to devise a remedy.