"IN FAR LOCHABER." We Americans as well as the English have a custom-and it is on the whole a good customof reviewing novels in a lump, and dismissing But the evil each with a few cursory words. a one as Black's has of the "novels of the week" plan is that it does not discriminate, whereas the French have a custom-and it is altogether a good one-of making exceptions in favor of novels that deserve them and giving them the elaborate treatment usually reserved for more serious And if works by the Anglo-Saxon reviewer. any novel were entitled to the respectful exception it would certainly be so charmirg Mr. William **In Far Lochaber." Mr. Black been more tragic and emotional, as in "McLeod of Dare"; more devoted to scenery. as in "The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton," and other tales that might be mentioned; but he has never been more harmonious, more entirely equal to himself at every point than in his latest novel. It is not every writer who -once admitted that he realizes it-can bring out without exaggeration the deep-rooted and essential differences between north an south in Scotland, between the Highlands and the Lowlands. Sir Walter could do it, and did so consummately again and again. Indeed, he was the first to make the world at large understand anything about it, and since his time there has been no one at all capable of the same feat except Mr. Black. It is not, of course, in the grand manner, like Scott's, and the modernized Highlands are far less individualized than in the early years of this century; but, given an ugly manufacturing town in the Lowlands and the household of a dissenting minister (on moreover who dissents from dissent, protests against Presbyterianism), and there is plenty to do in contrasting them with a party of gentlefolks in far Lochaber, whose numbers include a Roman Catholic laird and his son. Mr. Black gives Ludovic Macdone!, the chieftain's son, to the minister's daughter for a lover. Alison Blair having come up to visit her cousins at Fort William, Mr. Black has a legitimate opportunity tor describing the effect of these wonderful new scenes upon her, and Ludovic's later visit to Kirk O'Shields is equally productive of new experiences for him. Now and then in these attractive pages a paragraph like the following stands out: - apopuşite out poparoda 0}] pre que o p q əɔu LIBRARY EDITION. 19 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $1 25 per vol. Complete Sets, $22 00. SABINA ZEMBRA. WHITE HEATHER. JUDITH SHAKESPEARE. Illus trated by ABBEY. YOLANDE. Illustrated. SHANDON BELLS. Illustrated. SUNRISE. MACLEOD OF DARE. Illustrated. MADCAP VIOLET. THREE FEATHERS. A DAUGHTER OF HETH. A PRINCESS OF THULE. IN FAR LOCHABER. IN SILK ATTIRE. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF WHITE WINGS. Illustrated. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF CHEAP EDITION, IN PAPER COVERS. Sabina Zembra. 4to, 20 cents. -White Heather. 4to, 20 cents. cents. In Silk Attire. 8vo, 35 cents.- Kilmeny. 8vo, 35 cents.-The PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any |