In the '15. By the Rev. H. C. Adams. (Hodder
and Stoughton.) —This " Tale of the First Jacobite Insurrection " begins with the battle of Killiecrankie. Mr. Adams, it will be seen, neglects the Horatian maxim of plunging in medics res. As it turns out, how- ever, this is not an inconvenient way of introducing the chief per- sonages in the story,—two cousins, one of whom plots with every kind of wicked machination against the property and life of the ether. Mr. Adams has studied his subject with care, and knows how to fill up its details fully and accurately. The hero of the story, in his view, is Lord Derwentwater, in whom he sees almost the only man of real capacity on the Jacobite side. The last scene is the King's Council, George I. being represented in a more favourable light than that in which he commonly appears.
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