1 APRIL 1837, Page 20

Highland Rambles, and Long Stories to Shorten the Way, by

Sir THOMAS DICK LAUDER. These two volumes contain descrip- tions of the scenery seen in a Highland tour, made by the author and two friends with an idle pedantic schoolmaster picked up on the road. The landscapes, and the natural history thereto be- longing, form, however, but a small portion of the work, and, in

fact, merely serve as pegs on which to hang legends and tales of various kinds and different ages, connected with the scenes de- scribed. The general character, both of tour and story, may be defined as agreeable, but diffuse ; and more fitted for a reader willing to be pleased without effort, than for the critic, who brings to his book not only an active judgment, but a memory fraught with tests by which to try what he peruses.