... adjectively, as a bit garden, a bit lassie that bite means a morsel, that bracken is brake-fern, and that English blackberries beconmes brambles. If we skip several letters of the alphabet in the hepe of alighting on some- thing less purely Scottish ...

... haiceig. By H. W. Shrews- bury. (Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier.)-Stories of this sort are as common as blackberries in September, and to many people as welcome. Its persone are the good boy who turns out well, the prodigal who repents ...