"A thoroughly enjoyable novel, full of fresh, original, and
accurate pictures of life long gone by.” — Daily News.
“A strikingly realistic romance.” — Morning Post.
“ A stirring story. . . . Mr. Crockett’s style is charming. My
Baronite never knew how musical and picturesque is Scottish-
English till he read this book.” — Punch.
“ The youngsters have their Stevenson, their Barrie, and now
a third writer has entered the circle, S. R. Crockett, with a lively
and jolly book of adventures, which the paterfamilias pretends
to buy for his eldest son, but reads greedily himself and won’t
let go till he has turned over the last page. . . . Out of such
historical elements and numberless local traditions the author
has put together an exciting tale of adventures on land and sea.”
Frankfurter Zeitung.
SOME SCOTCH NOTICES.
“Galloway folk should be proud to rank ‘The Raiders’ among
the classics of the district.” — Scotsman.
“Mr. Crockett’s ‘The Raiders’ is one of the great literary
successes of the season.” — Dundee Advertiser.
“ Mr. Crockett has achieved the distinction of having produced
the book of the season.” — Dumfries and Galloway Standard.
“The story told in it is, as a story, nearly perfect.”
Aberdeen Daily Free Press,
“ ‘ The Raiders ’ is one of the most brilliant efforts of recent
fiction.” — Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser.
11, Paternoster Buildings, London, E.C.
i
T. FISHER UNWIN, Publisher,
THE STICKIT MINISTER
AND SOME COMMON
MEN S. R- CROCKETT
Eleventh Edition. Crown 8 vo., cloth, Os.
“ 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 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
-arception and reticent rendering of that underlying pathos of life which is to
6e 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.
THE LILAC
BONNET
SUN-
BT
S. R. CROCKETT
Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo., 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 fair, I learn that of all romances, they 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. Andrew Lang in Longman s Magattne.
5
11, Paternoster Buildings, London, E.G.
T. FISHER UNWIN, Publisher,
THE GREY MAN
BY
S. R. CROCKETT
Page 237
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
"A thoroughly enjoyable novel, full of fresh, original, and accurate pictures of life long gone by.” — Daily News.
“A strikingly realistic romance.” — Morning Post.
“ A stirring story. . . . Mr. Crockett’s style is charming. My Baronite never knew how musical and picturesque is Scottish- English till he read this book.” — Punch.
“ The youngsters have their Stevenson, their Barrie, and now a third writer has entered the circle, S. R. Crockett, with a lively and jolly book of adventures, which the paterfamilias pretends to buy for his eldest son, but reads greedily himself and won’t let go till he has turned over the last page. . . . Out of such historical elements and numberless local traditions the author has put together an exciting tale of adventures on land and sea.”
Frankfurter Zeitung.
SOME SCOTCH NOTICES.
“Galloway folk should be proud to rank ‘The Raiders’ among the classics of the district.” — Scotsman.
“Mr. Crockett’s ‘The Raiders’ is one of the great literary successes of the season.” — Dundee Advertiser.
“ Mr. Crockett has achieved the distinction of having produced the book of the season.” — Dumfries and Galloway Standard.
“The story told in it is, as a story, nearly perfect.”
Aberdeen Daily Free Press,
“ ‘ The Raiders ’ is one of the most brilliant efforts of recent fiction.” — Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser.
11, Paternoster Buildings, London, E.C.
T. FISHER UNWIN, Publisher,
THE STICKIT MINISTER AND SOME COMMON
MEN S. R- CROCKETT
Eleventh Edition. Crown 8 vo., cloth, Os.
“ 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 -arception and reticent rendering of that underlying pathos of life which is to 6e 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.
THE LILAC BONNET
SUN-
BT
S. R. CROCKETT
Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo., 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 fair, I learn that of all romances, they 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. Andrew Lang in Longman s Magattne.
11, Paternoster Buildings, London, E.G.
T. FISHER UNWIN, Publisher,
THE GREY MAN
BY
S. R. CROCKETT