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to 'unforgettable' | | 'almost forgotten, yet unforgettable' | | | | The following word has been changed on page 138:- | | | | 'uncle' to 'father' | | There is no previous mention of an uncle and the title | | 'father' makes more sense in the context of the story. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ THE END. _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_. MESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. _POPULAR NOVELS BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ Crown 8vo. Cloth. 3s. 6d. each. NEIGHBOURS ON THE GREEN. KIRSTEEN. _SCOTSMAN_--"One of the most powerful stories Mrs. Oliphant has ever written." _MURRAY'S MAGAZINE_--"One of the best books which Mrs. Oliphant's fertile pen has within recent years produced." _WORLD_--"Mrs. Oliphant has written many novels, and many good ones; but if she has hitherto written one so good as _Kirsteen_, we have not read it.... It is the highest praise we can give, when we say that there are passages in it which, as pictures of Scottish life and character, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to match out of Sir Walter's pages." _NATIONAL OBSERVER_--"Seldom, if ever, has Mrs. Oliphant done better than in _Kirsteen_.... There is humour, there is pathos, there is tragedy, there is even crime--in short, there is human life." JOYCE. _GUARDIAN_--"It has seldom been our lot to fall in with so engrossing a story." A BELEAGUERED CITY. _TIMES_--"The story is a powerful one and very original to boot." HESTER. _ACADEMY_--"At her best, she is, with one or two exceptions, the best of living English novelists. She is at her best in _Hester_." HE THAT WILL NOT WHEN HE MAY. _SCOTSMAN_--"The workmanship of the book is simply admirable." THE RAILWAY MAN AND HIS CHILDREN. _ANTI-JACOBIN_--"An extremely interesting story, and a perfectly satisfactory achievement of literary art." _MORNING POST_--"Mrs. Oliphant has never written a simpler, and at the same time a better conceived story. An excellent example of pure and sim
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