3 JULY 1869, page 18

Old-town Folks.* The Only Objection We Have To Make To

this novel is that we seem to have read it before. Taken by itself, it is a very good novel indeed, full to repletion of delicate sketches of very original cha- racters, and......

Dr. Thomson, Of Coldstream.*

ADAM Thomson . was born at Coldstream in 1779, lived, laboured, and preached there for more than half a century, and died in 1861, beloved and lamented as so good a man deserved......