“Literature and poetry are never seen at their best save in contact with actual life. This little book abounds in vivid delineation of character, and is redolent with the noblest human sympathy.”—Newcastle Daily Chronicle.
“‘The Heather on Fire’ is a poem that is rich not only in power and beauty but in that ‘enthusiasm of humanity’ which stirs and moves us, and of which so much contemporary verse is almost painfully deficient.... Miss Blind is not a mere poetic trifler who considers that the best poetry is that written by the man who has nothing to say but can say that nothing gracefully.... We can best describe the kind of her success by noting the fact that while engaged in the perusal of her book we do not say, ‘What a fine poem!’ but ‘What a terrible story!’ or more probably still say nothing at all but read on and on under the spell of a great horror and an overpowering pity. Poetry of which this can be said needs no other recommendation.”—The Manchester Examiner and Times.
“A poem recently published in London (‘The Heather on Fire; a Tale of the Highland Clearances’) is declared, in one of the articles which have appeared in the German press on the Scottish Land Question, ‘to be based on terrible truth and undoubted real horrors; giving, in noblest poetical language and thrilling words, a description which ought to be a spur of action to thinking statesmen.’”—North British Daily Mail.
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Address to the Reader, by the Editor; Men of Mark ’Twixt Tyne and Tweed, by Richard Welford—Mark Akenside, Rev. Berkeley Addison, Thomas Addison (“Addison of Guy’s”); Jack Crawford, the Hero of Camperdown; The Vicar of Lesbury; Centenarians in the Northern Counties; Joseph Saint, the North Tyne Centenarian; Laplanders at Ravensworth Castle; Mrs. Jameson in Newcastle; Lambert’s Leap; The Murder of Ferdinando Forster; Over the Churchyard Wall, by James Clephan; Charles I. in Northumberland; Old Tyne Bridge; Raymond Lully at Raby Castle; The Hawks Family, by William Brockie; Houghton Feast; The Betsy Cains; Ralph Lambton and His Hounds; Coal in the North; Old Newcastle Tradesmen—Alder Dunn, Hadwen Bragg; Hadwen Bragg’s Kinsmen and Descendants; My Lord ’Size—The Author, the Accident, the Song; Castle Garth Stairs; The Bowes Tragedy; Cock-Fighting in Newcastle; Rules and Regulations of the Cock-Pit; North-Country Wit and Humour; North-Country Obituary; Records of Events—North-Country Occurrences, General Occurrences.
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