One of the elements of this twentieth century is the number of novels containing plans for the amelioration of the home and the people. Mr. Clark Murray's ideal, as sketched out in his story, is a good one, but reading it, his characters strongly remind one of the child who objected to heaven because "everybody there was so good." -- The Review of Reviews , Volume 29 This is a perfectly plain and straightforward narrative of life in a Scottish west-coast village, beginning sixty years ago, and brought up to date in the ...
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One of the elements of this twentieth century is the number of novels containing plans for the amelioration of the home and the people. Mr. Clark Murray's ideal, as sketched out in his story, is a good one, but reading it, his characters strongly remind one of the child who objected to heaven because "everybody there was so good." -- The Review of Reviews , Volume 29 This is a perfectly plain and straightforward narrative of life in a Scottish west-coast village, beginning sixty years ago, and brought up to date in the first hundred pages. The story, of the rise of a firm from small beginnings to a sort of Bournville or Port Sunlight, with episodes showing various influences brought to bear on the hero, is told with a calm elaboration that does not shrink from relating trivialities-details which might easily fail to interest, but are recommended to our attention by a curious wholeheartedness and intimacy of knowledge. The writer is in sympathy with Scottish middle-class life, and quite at home in the rather wearisome dialect. Each chapter is headed with a quotation, displaying catholicity of taste without wide reading. Thus the chapter entitled " The Village Blacksmith " is prefaced with a verse beginning: - "Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands." The book is homely and wholesome, with three unsentimental Scottish love-scenes, and seven or eight social and religious discussions. -- The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art , Vol. 97
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