19 DECEMBER 1896, Page 24

Some years ago the Bodleian Library at Oxford became possessed

of a treasure in St. Margaret of Scotland's Gospel-Book, and we welcome heartily the reproduction in facsimile of this interesting MS., edited by Father Forbes-Leith, 8.J., F.S.A., and published by Messrs. Douglas. All who are familiar with the contemporary life of St. Margaret by Turgot will remember his description of a "Book of the Gospels" for which she had a "particular attachment," and of the wonderful story of its lose and recovery. The full history of the book is given by Father Forbes-Leith in his preface. Mr. David Douglas is to be con- gratulated on his reproduction of the MS., which had been lost sight of for nearly eight hundred years.