Some Press an d manner. . . . Criticism bends before the magic glamour 



Notices* of the north, where the sea foam is white and the skies are dark 



with cloud and wind. The land of the Gael is something rare 



and apart ; and rare and apart, judge it as you will, is the art of 



Fiona Macleod." — The Glasgow Herald. 



" What I admire in the work of Miss Fiona Macleod is her 

 infinite sympathy for all that is beautiful, either in what we 

 usually call inanimate nature, or in the deeds and words of men. 

 She too — and this is no mean compliment — respects her own 

 gift, and bestows it royally." — Country Life. 



" ' There is no mystery in them, or anywhere, except the 

 eternal mystery of beauty ' — and Miss Macleod certainly possesses 

 the master key to the heart of that mystery." — The Daily 

 Chronicle. 





" Miss Macleod persuades one more than ever that she is the 

 possessor of that rare and precious thing, genius. . . . Her 

 work has energy, passion, beauty, and sweetness." — The National 

 Observer. i 



" ' J'avais le sentiment de l'infini et de l'e'ternel et de la mes 

 sourires pour les choses qui passent. Mais l'Esprit ne passe 

 point.' Cette belle phrase de Renan s' applique assez exactment a 

 l'auteur de The Winged Destiny, Miss Fiona Macleod. Ce livre 

 qui s'est ' dresse comme un fantome hors des bois hautes ' a le 

 charme indicible des precedents ceuvres de cet auteur. Miss 

 Macleod a quelque chose de visionnaire et d'indefini, d'etrange- 

 ment melancolique, de profondement emouvant. . . . Tout cela, 

 c'est bien ' le reve de la vie vue en beaute',' et voir les choses 

 dans leur beaute c'est les voir dans leur ve'rite, comme l'a dit 

 Matthew Arnold." — Le Mercure de France. 





