Mr. Eneas Mackay is doing a good service to the
growing spirit of Scots nationalism, to furthering its assertion as an operative reality and not merely as something to be alco- holically exalted on nights wi' Burns, by publishing books exclusively devoted to Scottish subjects, and that too in Stirling which was once' the country's capital. Among the latest is a reprint in a revised form of Mr. George Eyre-Todd's Scotland, Picturesque and Traditional (5s.). The book follows the country's romantic history, its scenery and antiquities from the Border Abbeys to Edinburgh, thence wanders coast- wise to Inverness and down the Great Glen, from the High- lands takes a glance at the Islands, and so down the west to end on the " banks and braes o' bonie Doon." Melrose, the palaces of Linlithgow and Falkland, the frowning castle of Dunnottar, Iona and Culloden Muir—how much dark strong -story clings to those names !
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