  Three doves carrying leaves RE-ISSUE OF VOL. I. SPIRITUAL TALES Contents
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BY FIONA MACLEOD.
“Not beauty alone, but that element of strangeness in beauty which Mr Pater rightly discerned as the inmost spirit of romantic art—it is this which gives to Miss Macleod’s work its peculiar Æsthetic charm. But apart from and beyond all those qualities which one calls artistic, there is a poignant human cry, as of a voice with tears in it, speaking from out a gloaming which never lightens to day, which will compel and hold the hearing of many who to the claims of art as such are wholly or largely unresponsive.” (James Ashcroft Noble, in The New Age.) “Of the products of what has been called the Celtic Renascence, ‘The Sin-Eater’ and its companion Stories seem to us the most remarkable. They are of imagination and a certain terrible beauty all compact.” (From an article in The Daily Chronicle on “The Gaelic Glamour.”) “For sheer originality, other qualities apart, her tales are as remarkable, perhaps, as anything we have had of the kind since Mr Kipling appeared … Their local colour, their idiom, their whole method, combine to produce an effect which may be unaccustomed, but is therefore the more irresistible. They provide as original an entertainment as we are likely to find in this lingering century, and they suggest a new romance among the potential things of the century to come.” (The Academy.) Logo of the Riverside Press, Edinburgh PRINTED BY W. H. WHITE AND CO. LTD. |
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