Some Scottish Books " WHAT I have set down, I
have set down half in idleness and half out of that affection which is common to man and trees for the soil in which they have been for ages rooted," is Mr. Cunninghame Graham's message " to the Disingenuous Reader " in his preface to the first edition of The District of Menteith, published in 1895. We have now the privilege to welcome a third edition, an edition de luxe, of this delightful book, illustrated by ten reproductions of wash drawings by Sir D. Y. Cameron. This time Mr. Cunninghame Graham aptly dedicates his preface " to the Ingenuous Reader " (the italics are ours). Only two hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed by Eneas Mackay, of Stirling, and the price of each copy is twelve guineas. But each of these copies includes an original etching by Sir D. Y. Cameron, and that is a not inconsiderable compensation for the price. The book is magnificently produced, with its own strong cardboard case—a tour de force of printing. It is hardly necessary
to emphasise here the charm of Mr. Cunninghame Graham's writing and the romance in the story he tells. The District of Menteith must be known to most readers, at any rate, to all Scotsmen.
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