AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
1887.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| [The Vacant Chair] | (John Mackay Wilson) | [1] |
| [The Faa's Revenge] | (John Mackay Wilson) | [18] |
| [Kate Kennedy] | (Alexander Leighton) | [50] |
| [Recollections of Ferguson] | (Hugh Miller) | [83] |
| [The Disasters of Johnny Armstrong] | (Alexander Campbell) | [128] |
| [The Professor's Tales]—(Professor Thomas Gillespie):— | ||
| [The Mountain Storm] | [160] | |
| [The Fair Maid of Cellardykes] | [172] | |
| [Prescription; or, The 29th of September] | (Alex. Leighton) | [193] |
| [The Countess of Wistonbury] | (Alexander Campbell) | [225] |
| [Midside Maggie; or, The Bannock o' Tollishill]— | ||
| (John Mackay Wilson) | [257] | |
PREFACE.
This series of Tales, now so well known in this country and also in America, was begun by John Mackay Wilson, originally a printer, and who subsequently betook himself to literature. In the beginning of the undertaking he was inspired by a success probably greater than he had ever anticipated, and a sudden and wide-spread reputation induced him to overtask his energies, in a manner inconsistent with the care due to a delicate constitution. After having carried on the work, almost single-handed, for a period of more than a year—furnishing a tale every week—he took ill, and died. Subsequently, the charge of conducting the work devolved upon the present Editor, who was fortunate enough to secure the assistance of certain writers well qualified to sustain the reputation which the first part of the series had acquired. Among these were the late Hugh Miller, the late Professor Thomas Gillespie of St. Andrew's, Alexander Campbell, Alexander and John Bethune, and John Howell, all of whom possessed those natural gifts, enabling them to succeed in a species of literature which, while in one sense it may be called the most easy, is, in another, perhaps among the most difficult