days. Persons who wish to have accurate knowledge on the Eastern question should read it carefully. It will be found more profitable than any number of "atrocity pamphlets, however adroit the process of their manufacture may have been. Old Glasgow, the Place and the People, from the Roman Occupation to the Eighteenth Century. By Andrew Macgeorge. (Blackie & Son.) THIS is the third edition of a popular history of Glasgow. To write a book of local history that shall be at once learned and interesting is a feat that very few are able to achieve. Antiquarian plodding is one thing, the graces of style another, and they are seldom united in one person. Mr. Macgeorge has had several forerunners of the dully learned sort, and a herd past counting of scribblers who knew nothing well, and had not even the poor art of hiding their ignorance. He is, however, the first person who has given us the annals of Glasgow in a form that it is delightful to read. The scale on which the book is constructed has not permitted him to tell us so much of the Middle Age life of Scotland as we should like to have heard. What is given us is clear and accurate, entirely free from that foolish taint of theological bitterness which runs through many of the books produced north of tho Tweed. We have especially enjoyed the portion of the book devoted to the history of the planting and early growths of Christianity in Scotland. On such a subject it is now almost impossible to tell anything new, but Mr. Macgeorge has grouped his facts in a telling manner, which must needs impress the minds of his readers. His picture of serfdom, too, is clear and accurate. It is a subject which yet requires investigation. The condition of the unfree seems to have varied much in different parts of the island. The author seems to be unaware how long it lasted in England. There is evidence of the existence of bondmen in Yorkshire late in the reign of James I. 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