By NICHOLAS DICKSON and D. MACLEOD MALLOCH. Our Scottish kirk has a
great reputation for dourness--but it has probably kindled more humour
than it ever quenched. The pulpits have inevitably been filled by a race
of men disproportionately rich in "characters," originals, worthies with
a gift for pungent expression and every opportunity for developing it.
There is a fund of good stories here which forms a worthy sequel to Dean
Ramsay's Reminiscences and a living history of an old-world life. The
illustrations consist of sixteen reproductions in colour of paintings by
eminent Scottish artists. The frontispiece is the famous painting "The
Ordination of Elders." 340 pp. Buckram, 5/- net; Leather, 7/6 net.