“The most attractive Scotch novel we have read for a long while.”—Standard.
“A book which in respect of its strength and its beauty of diction, its excellent portrayal of a wide range of character, and its workmanlike construction—not the least essential of the novel—deserves to take a high place in modern fiction.”—Scotsman.
“Not since William Black’s pen was laid aside has so much of the colour, fragrance, and feeling of Western Scotland been rendered in print.... The story would appear to be the outcome of a moving realisation of all that makes the Highlands what they are to the poetic sense, of which the author of A Princess of Thule was perhaps the best modern interpreter.”—Glasgow Herald.
“Seldom since William Black gave us of his best has the land of moss and fell and deer forest been better painted in words.”—St. James’s Budget.
“Well-written story of Scotch county society.”—Times.
[John Murray.
The Transgressors.
“Those who know their Edinburgh well will doubtless recognise many among the portraits of its great and popular men here given; and those who do not will be glad of this opportunity of obtaining a glimpse into the life of a city whose culture runs on such different lines to those familiar to Englishmen.”—Guardian.
“The book is all about Edinburgh life and Edinburgh people as they are to be seen to-day by anybody who has eyes to see them ... introduces its readers to several typical Edinburgh households ... full of little bits of the streets of Edinburgh.”—Scotsman.