LAYS of the HIGHLANDS and ISLANDS.

BY JOHN STUART BLACKIE,

Emeritus Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh.

"Visitors to the Hebrides and the Highlands would not do amiss to make a companion of Professor Blackie's Lays of the Highlands and Islands (Walter Scott), if only for the stirring and characteristic "Talk with the Tourists" which forms the preface. This introductory address is scarcely less fervid in tone than the picturesque ballads-such as the "Death of Columba" or the various poems of places." These last are arranged under the names of the counties in which the localities that inspire the poet are to be found, so that the traveller may read under the beneficent influence of the genus loci."-Saturday Review.

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