Word: lowland
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...famous figure of history. Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has dared Sir Watter and "Old Mortality" by placing Grahame of Claver-house in his scene. Stevenson, a perfect little romantic, has given us, notably in "The Master of Ballantrae," marvels of last-century English, shrewdly touched with lowland Scotch; Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has garnished what purports to be, in "The Raiders," a plain narrative of eighteenth century prose, with such words as "spontaneity" and "crescendo," such phrases as "a happy inspiration." In spite of their faults and crudities, however, and in spite of their lack...
...same level with "Doninie," "Drumsheugh's Love Story," and "A Doctor of the Old School," here would be work that would surpass Mr. Barrie's best. As it is, these three sketches-said Mr. Copeland-and "A Window in Thrums" far exceed any imaginative prose writing in Lowland Scotch since the author of Meg Dods, Edie Ochiltree, and Jeanie Deans, laid down his swift and tired...