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- Collection: MAGAZINE REPOSITORY
Modern Falconry [supplement; Booklets column mentions The Play Actress]Supplement to The Graphic, 8 December 1894. Main feature is an illustrated article on modern falconry. The "Booklets" column within the same…
The Play-ActressShort review | Subject: Review of PlayActress
New Novelsa daring experiment, and has achieved a remarkable, if not an absolute success’ | Subject: The Play-Actress
The Author of The Raiders: How Mr. Crockett Learned His TradeDigest article summarising an interview with Crockett published in Cassell's Family Magazine, April 1895 (primary source). Covers Crockett's origins…
Mr. S. R. Crockett's Latest [review of Bog-Myrtle and Peat]Review of Bog-Myrtle and Peat (Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1895). Critical assessment: judges the stories mostly lengthy, pointless, and ill-told,…
Authors and their Works: J. M. BarrieArticle by Crockett on J. M. Barrie, surveying his biography, literary character, and works, with reflections on the Kailyard school and Barrie's…
Galt RedivivusArticle | Subject: Article on Galt (and Scots literature) by William Wallace
Natural Philosophy in the Village
Mr. Crockett's Latest Novel [The Men of the Moss Hags]Review of The Men of the Moss Hags in The National Observer. Examines Crockett's use of Scots dialect, narrative instincts, and characterisation…
The Men of the Moss-HagsUnsigned review of The Men of the Moss-Hags (Isbister & Co., 6s.), praising Crockett's evocation of the Covenanting struggle and singling out the…