‘Mr. Smeaton looks narrowly into the characteristics of Dunbar’s genius, and does well to insist on the almost Shakespearian range of his gifts. He contends that in elegy, as well as in satire and allegory, Dunbar’s place in English literature is amongst the great masters of the craft of letters.’
The Glasgow Herald says:—
‘This is a bright and picturesquely written monograph, presenting in readable form the results of the critical research undertaken by Laing, Schipper, and the other scholars who during the present century have done so much for the elucidation of the greatest of our early Scottish poets.’
The Bailie says:—
‘A graphic and informed account not only of the man and his works, but of his immediate environment and of the times in which he lived.’
The Bookman says:—
‘The book is an admirable biography, one of the liveliest and most readable in the series.’
Of SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, by Professor Murison,
The Speaker says:—
‘Mr. Murison is to be congratulated on this little book. After much hard and discriminative labour he has pieced together by far the best, one might say the only rational and coherent, account of Wallace that exists.’