"A very readable book about a very interesting people.... A minister, of course, enjoys altogether exceptional opportunities, and Mr. Russell seems to have made good use of them. He writes frankly about things as he found them, which he is perhaps all the better able to do for his change to the position of an outsider."--_Glasgow Herald._ "It contains some of the best clerical stories--though not always of the most dignified nature, nor such as will tend to exalt the cloth in the estimation of rude and irreverent laics--that we have come across, and it gives very interesting, and for the most part accurate, details of the everyday life of the people."--_Elgin Courant and Courier._ UNIFORM WITH "BENDERLOCH." _LOCH CRERAN. Notes from the West Highlands._ By W. ANDERSON SMITH. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. Post free. "Readers of Mr. W. Anderson Smith's _Benderloch_ will welcome from the same pen a second instalment of notes of natural history in the Western Highlands entitled _Loch Creran_.... The influences of free moorland air and buoyant water, of a spacious heaven and wide horizon, are with us, and give zest to the study of fish and fowl and flower that are liberally displayed. Whether it is the flight of a solitary bunting, or the habitat of the pipe-fish (_Sygnathus_), the progress of _Myæ_ in the refluent tide or a nested robin domiciled among strange perils, the scenic suggestion cannot fail to persuade the senses. A large and distinctive portion of Mr. Smith's book is devoted to the investigation of the rich spoil of the dredger, as might be anticipated of so enthusiastic a student of fish culture, and many of the most interesting pages describe excursions on the waters of Etive and Creran and Benderloch, or among the rocky pools and stretches of sand exposed by the ebbing sea. By sea or land, on the wild hills or among the flowers and insects of his garden, Mr. Smith has ever something to say that is worth hearing, and he says it with admirable clearness and force."--_Saturday Review._