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Traditions of Perth, by GEORGE PENNY, is a species of

local history, literal but not dull. Besides the usual historical subjects, which are treated of in such publications, the present is full of personal anecdotes, comic stories, and sketches of local manners and customs of the olden time, as well as of many interesting characters—the representatives of an age too close to be studied for its antiquities, toe distant to be known from observation, fled therefore all the fresher.