"There are several literary ladies, of recent origin, who have tried to come up to the society ideal; but John Oliver Hobbes is by far the best writer of them all, by far the most capable artist in fiction.... She is clever enough for anything."--_Sat.u.r.day Review._
THE HERB MOON BY JOHN OLIVER HOBBES
_Third Edition, Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.
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"The jaded reader who needs sauce for his literary appet.i.te cannot do better than buy "The Herb Moon.""--_Literary World._
"A book to hail with more than common pleasure. The epigrammatic quality, the power of rapid a.n.a.lysis and brilliant presentation are there, and added to these a less definable quality, only to be described as charm.... "The Herb Moon" is as clever as most of its predecessors, and far less artificial."--_Athenaeum._
THE STICKIT MINISTER AND SOME COMMON MEN BY S. R. CROCKETT
_Eleventh Edition._ _Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.
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"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 pa.s.sed, 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 perception and reticent rendering of that underlying pathos of life which 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. 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 SUN-BONNET BY S. R. CROCKETT
_Sixth Edition._ _Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.
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"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 Magazine_.
THE RAIDERS BY S. R. CROCKETT
_Eighth Edition._ _Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.
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"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 cla.s.sics 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._
THE GREY MAN BY S. R. CROCKETT
_Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.
_Also, an Edition de Luxe, with 26 Drawings by_ SEYMOUR LUCAS, R.A., _limited to 250 copies, signed by Author. Crown 4to., cloth gilt_, 21s. _net_.
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"It has nearly all the qualities which go to make a book of the first-cla.s.s. Before you have read twenty pages you know that you are reading a cla.s.sic."--_Literary World._
"All of that vast and increasing host of readers who prefer the novel of action to any other form of fiction should, nay, indeed, must, make a point of reading this exceedingly fine example of its cla.s.s."--_Daily Chronicle._
"With such pa.s.sages as these [referring to quotations], glowing with tender pa.s.sion, or murky with horror, even the most insatiate lover of romance may feel that Mr. Crockett has given him good measure, well pressed down and running over."--_Daily Telegraph._
A DAUGHTER OF THE FEN BY S. R. CROCKETT
_Second Edition._ _Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.
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"It will deserve notice at the hands of such as are interested in the ways and manner of living of a curious race that has ceased to be."
_Daily Chronicle._
"For a first book "A Daughter of the Fen" is full of promise."--_Academy._
"This book deserves to be read for its extremely interesting account of life in the Fens and for its splendid character study of Mme.
d.y.k.ereave." _Star._
"Deserves high praise."--_Scotsman._
"It is an able, interesting ... an exciting book, and is well worth reading. And when once taken up it will be difficult to lay it down."
_Westminster Gazette._