T. FISHER UN WIN, Publisher, 



THE STICKIT MINISTER 

 AND SOME COMMON 



MEN S. R. CROCKETT 



Elcvenih Edition. Croivii 8i'o., clotli, 6s. 



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" Here is one of the books which are at present comii^g singly and at long 

 intervals, like early swallows, to herald, it is to be hoped, a larger tlight. 

 When the larger Hight 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 com- 

 panion 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 

 percei tion and reticent rendering of that underlying pathos of life wh ch 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. iMr Crockett 

 has given us a liook that is not merely good, it is what his countrvmen would 

 call ' bv-ordinar' good,' which, being interpret d into a tongue understanded of 

 the southern herd, means that it is excellent, with a somewhat exceptional kind 

 of excellence." — Dailv Chronicle. 



THE LILAC SUN- 

 BONNET 



S. R. CROCKETT 



Sixth Edition. Croicii 8i'o., cloth, 6s. 



" Mr Crockett's ' Lilac Sun-Bonnet needs no bush.' Here is a pretty love 

 tale, and the landscape and rural descriptions carry the exile back into the 

 Kingdom of Galloway. Here, indeed, is the scent of bog-myrtle and peat. 

 After inquiries among the f,air, I learn that of all romances, thev best love, 

 not 'sociology,' not 'theology.' still less, open manslaughter, for a motive, but 

 just love's young dream, chapter after chapter. From Mr. Crockett they get 

 what they want, ' hot with,' as Thackeray admits that he liked it " 



Mr. AXDREW Lang in Lon<riihiii's Magazine. 



]1, Paterno.ster Buildings, London, E.G. i 



