31 JANUARY 1874, page 19

The South-scotch Dialect.*

• The Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland. By James A. H. Murray. London: Asher and Co. AFTER the many years' work of Dr. Richard Morris and the Early English Text......

The Fair God.*

THERE is properly no history, only biography, says Emerson, adding, " All inquiry into antiquity—all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the......