17 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 12

Auld Robin the Farmer. By Walter Douglas Campbell. Illus- trated

by H.R.H. the Princess Louise. (D. Douglas, Edinburgh.) —Mr. Campbell's ballad tells in spirited verse how "Auld Robin" won a curling match for the laird, who gives him the farm "for the rent o' a bobbin." The figures of the farmer and his wife are good, and the collie is worthy of being the frontis- piece; but we should like to have had a view of the frozen loch, and the match itself.