Lennox at that tale's ending, even as she has been the beginning and
middle and end of this. Only by that time she was no more Maisie Lennox.

_Concluded in my study at Afton, December 2, 1702._

_W. G._

FINIS.

BY S. R. CROCKETT

MAD SIR UCHTRED OF THE HILLS.

"Mr. Crockett is surely the poet-laureate of Galloway. The scene of his
latest tale ('Mad Sir Uchtred') is laid among the hills with which we
became familiar in 'The Raiders.' It is a brief tale, not a novel, and
it can be read through in an hour; indeed, if one begins it, one must
read it through, so compelling is the charm of it. The Lady of Garthland
makes a gracious and pathetic figure, and the wild and terrible Uchtred,
the wrong done him, the vengeance which he did not take,--all these
things are narrated in a style of exquisite clearness and beauty. Mr.
Crockett need not fear comparison with any of the young Scotsmen who are
giving to English literature just now so much that is fresh, and
wholesome, and powerful."--_Boston Courier._

THE STICKIT MINISTER, AND SOME COMMON MEN.

"Mr. Crockett has given us a book that is full of strength and charms.
Humour and pathos mingle with delightful effect.... It is hard to
imagine that any lover of literature could be altogether wanting in
appreciation of their quaint homeliness and pleasant realism. To come
across a volume like this is indeed refreshing. No wailing pessimism
mars our enjoyment with its dreary disbelief in humanity; every page
exhibits a robust faith in the higher possibilities of our nature, and
the result is distinctly successful. Amongst the gems of the collection
we may indicate 'The Heather Lintie,' a simple sketch, instinct with
quiet, penetrating pathos; whilst as a specimen of acute and kindly
humour, 'A Knight-Errant of the Streets,' with its sequel, 'The Progress
of Cleg Kelly,' would be hard to surpass.... The author has constructed
stories full of grace and charm. Those to whom humanity in its most
primitive and least complex aspect is interesting will find real
pleasure in studying Mr. Crockett's strong and sympathetic presentment
of Scottish peasant life."--_The Speaker._

THE RAIDERS.

Being Some Passages in the Life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little
Egypt.

"... The things that befell us in those strange years when the hill
outlaws collogued with the wild freetraders of the Holland traffic, and
fell upon us to the destruction of the life of man, the c