KATE CARNEGIE AND THOSE MINISTERS. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1896. Octavo, 409 pp., original bevel-edged terra cotta cloth stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. The third 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. Just a bit of rubbing to cloth, mainly spine ends and corner tips, a very good copy. (#134396).
Price: $35.00
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