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The Macdonald Lass. By Sarah Tytler. (Chatto and Windus.) —The

heroine of this story—a combination, as it may be sup- posed, of fiction and fact—is the Flora Macdonald who may be said to have saved the life of the young Pretender, with doubtful advantage to Charles Edward himself, and much harm to the Jacobite cause, which would have been served better by the memory of a martyr than by the object-lesson of a disreputable exile. Flora speaks her mind with commendable plainness about the young man whom she befriends. Her honesty and independence of character is well set forth in the book, which is a decided acquisition to the literature of the subject.