‘Anyhow, here, at least, we have his life-story--a most difficult tale to tell--recorded with a painstaking research and in a spirit of appreciative candour which leave almost nothing to be desired.’ Of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by MARGARET MOYES BLACK, The _Banffshire Journal_ says:-- ‘The portrait, drawn as it is by a loving hand, is absolutely photographic in its likeness, and the literary criticisms with which the book is pleasantly studded are alike careful and judicious, and with most of them the ordinary reader will cordially agree.’ The _Bookman_ says:-- ‘This little book is sure to get a welcome.’ The _Speaker_ says:-- ‘Sense and sensibility are in these pages, as well as knowledge and delicate discrimination.’ The _Outlook_ says:-- ‘Certainly one of the most charming biographies we have ever come across. The writer has style, sympathy, distinction, and understanding. We were loth to put the book aside. Its one fault is that it is too short.’ The _Daily Free Press_ says:-- ‘One of the most charming sketches--it is scarcely a biography--of a literary man that could be found has just been published as the latest number of the “Famous Scots Series”--“R. Louis Stevenson,” by Miss Black. The excellence of the little book lies in its artless charm, in its loose and easy style, in its author’s evident love and delight in her subject.’ Of THOMAS REID, by Professor CAMPBELL FRASER, The _North British Daily Mail_ says:-- ‘A model of sympathetic appreciation and of succinct and lucid exposition.’ The _Scotsman_ says:-- ‘Professor Campbell Fraser’s volume on Thomas Reid is one of the most able and valuable of an able and valuable series. He supplies what must be allowed to be a distinct want in our literature, in the shape of a brief, popular, and accessible biography of the founder of the so-called Scottish School of Philosophy, written with notable perspicuity and sympathy by one who has made a special study of the problems that engaged the mind of Reid.’ The _Glasgow Herald_ says:-- ‘We do not know any volume of the “Famous Scots Series” that deserves or is likely to receive a heartier welcome from the educated public than this life and estimate of Reid by Professor Campbell Fraser. The writer is no amateur, but a past-master in the subject of Scottish philosophy, and it has evidently been a real pleasure to him to expiscate quite a number of new facts regarding the professional and private life of its best representative.’ The _Pall Mall Gazette_ says:-- ‘The little work is of high excellence--comprehensive in view, dear in exposition, and exemplary in literary style.’ The _Saturday Review_ says:-- ‘Mr. Campbell Fraser has added to the “Famous Scots Series” an excellent little book on Reid and his philosophy, dealing lucidly with the philosopher’s relations with contemporary thinkers and with modern thought.’ Of POLLOK AND AYTOUN, by ROSALINE MASSON, The _Spectator_ says:--