The July number of The Scottish Review is scarcely no
readable as its predecessors. The leading Scotch articles are a learned but dry paper on the coronation of Charles II. at Scone, and a very readable one, "The Burning of Frendratight,"—the death by fire, early in the seventeenth century, of the eon of the Marquis of Huntly and a companion in a tower, belonging to a member of a clan ordinarily opposed to that of Hruitly. This terrible event, as Mr. Burton says, "has to the Northern peasant as distinct and tragic a place in history as the Sicilian Vespers or the night of St. Bartholomew may have for those whose historical horizon is wider." The author of this paper finds himself unable to decide whether the burning of Frendraught was an accident, or the result of a con- spiracy, and in this uncertainty, it into be feared, the matter most rest. The paper, however, gives an intesting account of the great historical and sanguinary fends in the North of Scotland between the Gordona and the Crichtons. An enthusiastic Canadian contributes to the Review a paper recommending "The Hudeon'e Bay Route" as the proper sequel to the Canadian Pacific, Railway. "Already," he says, "The Canadian Pacific Railway is recognised in all well.informed circles as the most imperial work of the age; that it has given to the Mother-country an alternative route to India, Australia, China, and Japan—the land portion of 4,000 miles being entirely in her own possessions. But the Hudson's Bay route will give her another and a much better one, since, while the water portion between England and Churchill will be shorter than that between England and Montreal by sixty-four miles, the land portion between Churchill and Vancouver, the Pacific terminus, will be shorter than that between Montreal and Vancouver by about 1,080 miles." Besides, the route will "furnish the British Isles at all times, whether of war or peace, with an unlimited supply of grain and animal food at a rate considerably below that of a route either through New York by American roads or through Montreal by the Canadian Pacific."
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