The Northern Highlctnds in the Nineteenth Century. By James Barron.
(Carruthers and Sons, Inverness.)—This volume mainly consists of extracts from the Inverness Courier for the years 1825-41. The introduction occupies forty-four pages, arid gives some interesting facts. The movement in the Highlands was not all in advance. In the Western islands there was retrogression, though such places as Inverness and the towns generally advanced. Here, too, there has been rural depopulation. Sutherland and Caithness show a decrease of population in 1901 as competed with 1831 of 55,810 as against 60,037. Some places eIhibit lanch greater change. The 3,280 of Gleamoriston in 1851 had sunk to 1,828 in 1901. In one matter a great increase has taken place,— sporting rents. As late as the "fifties" a shooting of 80,000 acres with two salmon rivers in the island of Lewis was let for .B150. Twenty years still earlier the whole island did not bring in much mere in the way of sporting rent.
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