The dumb, wistful yearning in man to something higher—yearning such as the animal creation showed in the Greek period towards the human-has not as yet found any interpreter equal to Buchanan.'-SPECTATOR. THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, with a Frontispiece by A. W. COOPER, 35. 6d. ; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 2s. "The "Shadow of the Sword" is a prose poem in idea as well as expression.... We may give the highest praise to the book in point both of scenery and of characters. . . . The story is told with great force and fire, and there is scarcely a chapter that will not repay a second perusal.'-Times. A CHILD OF NATURE. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, with a Frontispiece by A. W. COOPER, 3s. 6d. ; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 2s. 'We may gain from the book a great deal of wholesome pleasure. All the incidental sketches are admirable.... Popular the novel is certain to be, and that deservedly.'-Graphic. ... GOD AND THE MAN. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, with eleven ... Illustrations by F. BARNARD, 35. 6d. ; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 25. 'The novel demands an amount of admiration such as comparatively few novels of the last few years appear to merit. The story is, in fact, a poem expressed in prose form, but none the less a poem. This solemn tragedy of the power of hatred to destroy the happiness and beauty of innocent as well as guilty lives, moves on with a stately grandeur that would dignify noble verse. The story reminds us not a little of some of Victor Hugo's books; not that it imitates anything, but that it is characterized by the same nervous force and intense realization of spiritual conflict.'-Literary World. LOVE ME FOR EVER. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, with a Frontispiece by P. MACNAB, 35. 6d. ; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 25. 'A very delightful story. It contains a charming mixture of realism and idealism. Nothing sweeter or more delicate than the character of Mabel has ever been presented to the reader, and no author that we know of has mingled dreamland with everyday life so well as Mr. Buchanan has done. It is a story to be read with pleasure.'-Scotsman. ANNAN WATER. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, 3s. 6d. ; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 2s. 'Readers of novels have not too often the chance of taking up such a book as this, with so much that is beautiful and pathetic in conception, expressed with so much that is beautiful and pathetic in diction. But, then, the author is unquestionably a real poet-with the faculty, moreover, of writing excellent prose. Power, pathos, and humour are his.'-Pall Mall Gazette. FOXGLOVE MANOR. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, 3s. 6d. ; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 25. 'A reader who follows it to the end without an increase of wisdom and widened sympathies must be a very strange sort of reader indeed. . . . "Foxglove Manor" is a work to be grateful for, though that it may be misunder. stood we can readily believe. Perhaps it may help in some measure against ROBERT BUCHANAN'S NOVELS-Continued. this danger to note that it refuses to recognise any possible compromise between conscience and passion.'-Graphic. THE MARTYRDOM OF MADELINE. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, with a Frontispiece by A. W. COOPER, 3s. 6d. ; post 8vo., illustrated boards, as. "The Martyrdom of Madeline" has the great merit of embodying a very stirring story cleverly imagined and graphically told.'—Nottingham Guardian. THE NEW ABELARD. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, 3s. 6d. ; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 25. 'We do not know that Mr. Buchanan has ever shown to greater advantage. There are many pages of his prose which are really eloquent poetry, and his scenes and scenery are sometimes painted with extraordinary force and fire.'-Times. MATT: A Story of a Caravan. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, with a Frontispiece, 3s. 6d. ; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 25. In its way the tale is unique, and we long to make a trial of the nomadic life, primitive cookery, and free-and-easy existence, duly set forth in this story of a caravan.' -Aberdeen Journal. THE MASTER OF THE MINE. Crown Evo., cloth extra, with a Frontispiece by W. H. OVEREND, 3s. 6d. ; post 8vo., boards, 25. "The Master of the Mine" is a powerful sketch, and there are passages in the writing of great force and beauty. In this story the reader breathes the air and hears the accents of Cornish life.'-Spectator. THE HEIR OF LINNE. post 8vo., illustrated boards, 25. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, 3s. 6d. ; 'Characters so strongly marked and such striking accuracy of detail are rarely met with in this class of fiction, unless it be, as in this instance, the production of a master hand. . . . Its personages are all distinctly original.' -Morning Post. WOMAN AND THE MAN. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, 3s. 6d. 'The heroine of the tale is an amiable and accomplished woman, married to a heartless scamp, who despoils her of her inheritance, brutally ill-treats her, and eventually abandons her.'-Daily Telegraph. RED AND WHITE HEATHER: North Country Tales and Ballads. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, 3s. 6d. 'Mr. Robert Buchanan's volume offers considerable variety. In "A Highland Princess" he cleverly depicts an aspiring poet's hopes and disillusions. The "Legend of the Mysterious Piper" is fantastic and humorous, while the ballad of "The Dumb Bairn is singularly pathetic.'-Morning Post. RACHEL DENE: A Tale of the Deepdale Mills. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, 3s. 6d. 'In "Rachel Dene" Mr. Buchanan tells in his graphic manner a tale full of human interest. His hero and heroine are orphans whose parents have perished in the Indian Mutiny.'-Morning Post. |