24 JANUARY 1880, Page 23

Eldmuir : an Art Story of Scottish Home-Life, Scenery, and

Inci- dent. By Jacob Thompson, Jun. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This story is written by way of text to the pictures of Mr. Jacob Thomp- son, Senior. Justice is hardly done to the original by the way in which the engraver has rendered them. The story is more successful, not, perhaps, as a tale, for in that character it does not leave a very distinct impression on the mind of the reader, but for its close fidelity to the life which it describes. The writer does not make the

separate characters stand out very vividly before us, but the whole scene is portrayed with considerable skill.