4 NEW BOOKS 



OLD SCOTTISH CUSTOMS: Local and General. By E. 



J. GUTHRIE. Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 6d. 

 Gives an interesting account of old local and general Scottish 

 customs, now rapidly being lost sight of. 



A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BELIEF IN 

 WITCHCRAFT IN SCOTLAND. By CHARLES 

 KIRKPATRICK SHARPE. Crown 8vo. Price 4s. 6d. 



Gives a chronological account of Witchcraft incidents in Scot- 

 land from the earliest period, in a racy, attractive style. And 

 likewise contains an interesting Bibliography of Scottish books on 

 Witchcraft. 



"Sharpe ivas weU qualified to gossip about these topics." 

 SATURDAY REVIEW. 



"Mr. Sharpe has arranged att the striking and important 

 phenomena associated with the belief in Apparitions and Witch- 

 craft. An extensive appendix, with a list of books on Witchcraft 

 in Scotland, and a useful index, render this edition of Mr. 

 Sharpens work all the more valuable." GLASGOW HERALD. 



TALES OF THE SCOTTISH PEASANTRY. By 

 ALEXANDER and JOHN BETHUNE. With Biography 

 of the Authors by JOHN INGRAM, F.S.A.Scofc. Post 

 8vo. Price 3s. 6d. 



" It is the perfect propriety of taste, no less than the thorough 

 intimacy with the subjects he treats of, that gives Mr. Bethune's 

 book a great charm in our eyes." ATHENAEUM. 



" The pictures of rural life and character appear to us re- 

 markably true, as well as pleasing." CHAMBERS'^ JOURNAL. 



The Tales are quite out of the ordinary routine of such litera- 

 ture, and are universally held in peculiarly high esteem. The 

 folloiving may be given as a specimen of the Contents: " The 

 Deformed," "The Fate of the Fairest," " The Stranger," "The 

 Drunkard," "The Illegitimate," "The Cousins," &c., &c. 



A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF 

 SCOTLAND IN 1773. By SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. 

 Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 

 Written by Johnson himself, and not to be confounded with 



BpswelVs account of the same tour. Johnson said that some of 



his best writing is in this work. 



