3 OCTOBER 1903, Page 14

Sir Walter Scott and his Country. By Handasyde. (R. Briraley

Johnson. le. net.)—This is a very pleasant and sympathetic little account of a visit to the Abbotsford country, and talks with people who were in some way associated with memories of Scott, —a shepherd who described himself as "ae year's bairn wi' her Majesty Queen Victoria," and was therefore in his fourteenth year when Sir Walter died, and a granddaughter of Peter Matheson, his coachman. The latter had a relic which she owed to Peter's thrifty care, a looking-glass made out of a broken pane of the carriage window.