BY
S. R. CROCKETT
_Eleventh Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth_, =6s.=
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“Here is one of the books which are at present coming singly and at
long intervals, like early swallows, to herald, it is to be hoped,
a larger flight. When the larger flight appears, the winter of our
discontent will have passed, and we shall be able to boast that the
short story can make a home east as well as west of the Atlantic. There
is plenty of human nature--of the Scottish variety, which is a very
good variety--in ‘The Stickit Minister’ and its companion stories;
plenty of humour, too, of that dry, pawky kind which is a monopoly
of ‘Caledonia, stern and wild’; and, most plentiful of all, a quiet
perception and reticent rendering of that underlying pathos of life
which is to be discovered, not in Scotland alone, but everywhere
that a man is found who can see with the heart and the imagination
as well as the brain. Mr Crockett has given us a book that is not
merely good, it is what his countrymen would call ‘by-ordinar’ good,’
which, being interpreted into a tongue understanded of the southern
herd, means that it is excellent, with a somewhat exceptional kind of
excellence.”--_Daily Chronicle._