“It is exquisite in style, spontaneous and well-sustained in movement.”
“It is a story of Italian coloring delicately suggestive, artistic rather than strong, dreamy rather than aggressive.”—Chicago Evening Post.
UNIFORM WITH “THE WINGS OF ICARUS.”
MAD SIR UCHTRED OF THE HILLS.
BY
S. R. CROCKETT,
Author of “The Raiders,” “The Stickit Minister,” Etc., Etc.
16mo. Buckram. $1.25.
“Mr. Crockett is surely the poet-laureate of Galloway. The scene of his latest tale (‘Mad Sir Uchtred’) is laid among the hills with which we became familiar in ‘The Raiders.’ It is a brief tale, not a novel, and it can be read through in an hour; indeed, if one begins it, one must read it through, so compelling is the charm of it. The Lady of Garthland makes a gracious and pathetic figure, and the wild and terrible Uchtred, the wrong done him, the vengeance which he did not take,—all these things are narrated in a style of exquisite clearness and beauty. Mr. Crockett need not fear comparison with any of the young Scotsmen who are giving to English literature, just now, so much that is fresh, and wholesome, and powerful.”—Boston Courier.
THE SILVER CHRIST,