The Days of Auld Lang Syne by Ian MacLaren

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1896. Dodd, Mead & Company.

The second 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.