I It's fules wad bide in London when they kent
o' Kirrie- muir "—sings Miss Violet Jacob, and if there is no very pressing danger of an acute house-shortage being set up in Kirriemuir on account of her advice, there is at all events some chance of the tale of summer visitors being largely added to, when Mr. J. A. Hammerton's Barrie land : A Threat's Pilgrimage (Low, 5s.) becomes known, as it well deserves to be. The book is a pleasantly sympathetic and informed account of Sir James Barrie's native town—a bleak enough place perhaps (yet a fit nurse for the pawky humour still possessed by its inhab- itants), and to the unseeing eye not dowered with any special charm, but to the noble and numberless army of Barrie-lovers almost a Mecca. Those who go a-pilgriming there will find Mr. liammerton's little book a very delightful companion.
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