THE DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Octavo, original pictorial light gray-green cloth stamped in black and gold. First U.S. edition. The second collection of Rev. Watson's tremendously popular stories of Scottish life. "In his day Watson had a large following both in Britain and abroad. Both Queen Victoria and W. E. Gladstone were admirers of his publications. Yet the great sentimentality of his fiction definitely places him in the Kailyard school. His chief merit was his ability to record rural dialects with reasonable competence, but he lacked skill in connecting sketches to form a unified work." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, p. 258. Cloth a little rubbed at edges, spine panel a bit darkened, a very good copy. (#133587).
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