SOME PRESS NOTICES 



"Not beauty alone, but that element of strangeness in beauty 

 which Mr. Pater rightly discerned as the inmost spirit of romantic 

 art it is this which gives to Miss Macleod's work its peculiar 

 aesthetic charm." Mr. Ashcroft Noble. 



" Miss Macleod is a poet. Her prose is prose it is a poet's 

 prose. . . . She excels in the very quality most Celtic literature 

 so signally wants namely, form. . . . But more than a sense 

 of form is evident in her stories. She has the seeing eye, the 

 hearing ear, the attentive spirit, the brooding mind. She has 

 caught and construed into sweet words all the magical beauty of 

 the themes, nor has she shrunk from their horror ; and in 

 almost all one is conscious of that unknown something that 

 e moves in the shadow of life.' 'It is Destiny,' she tells us, 

 ' that is the Protagonist in the Celtic drama.' " To-day. 



" Miss Macleod's genius has long been recognised as repre- 

 senting most completely the revival of the Celtic spirit in 

 modern English literature." The Manchester Guardian. 



"Miss Macleod is a Celt of the Celts; her theme is the 

 ancient trouble of her race. . . . She appeals to a little clan of 

 her own, to whom the wild bees of the spirit come, as secret 

 wings in the dark, with the sound and breath of forgotten things. 

 To that clan The Winged Destiny will be more than welcome. 

 It shows in abundance all the writer's usual qualities of charm 



