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DR. PRITCHARD. "Mr. Roughead's highly interesting book."--Lancet. "We read this report, now learnedly edited by Mr. Roughead, with a profound interest in the logic of the argument and in the character of the pannel."--Spectator. "The narrative is most interesting, and one which lawyers and laymen alike will read with fixed attention."--Law Times. "This book, which Mr. Roughead has edited with a skill and complete- ness worthy of the highest praise, is a record of great interest to every student of criminology."--Scottish Review. DEACON BRODIE. "This biography . . . more interesting than many novels."--Daily Telegraph. "It contains an Introduction by William Roughead, Writer to the Signet, and the many notes are all excellent. The result is that we have a presentation of manners and customs of the end of the eighteenth century in Scotland that no amount of ordinary fine writing could secure to us."-MR. CLEMENT SHORTER in The Sphere. "The result of the whole, preface and trial taken together, is an extra- ordinarily vivid portrait of the excellent Deacon, who is one of the most romantic characters in Edinburgh legend."-MR. ARTHUR RANSOME in The Bookman. "The volume is edited by Mr. William Roughead, whose Introduction, giving a succinct account of the Deacon's career, is a thoroughly capable piece of work."--Tribune. CAPTAIN PORTEOUS. "Mr. Roughead's Introduction seems to us the best thing yet published on the subject. It is admirably written, and the conclusions, presented modestly as befits so complex an affair, are sober and convincing."--Spectator. "Mr. Roughead has omitted nothing that learning and industry could do to make this a complete and authoritative record of a fascinating chapter in the social, political, and legal annals of Edinburgh and Scotland."--Saturday Review. CAPTAIN PORTEOUS-continued. "It is a deeply interesting problem, as set forth with painstaking scholarship by Mr. Roughead"--Outlook. "The story which Mr. Roughead tells is decidedly grim, but he has done excellent service to history in unearthing so much that is essential to a proper understanding of a notable occurrence."-- Westminster Gazette. OSCAR SLATER. "People who like legal mysteries and the arts of the literary detective should read Mr. Roughead's `Trial of Oscar Slater."'-MR. ANDREW LANG in The Illustrated London News. "Following the complicated details of the trial as elucidated in Mr. Roughead's most admirably judicial manner, we are con- strained to speculate as to whether Slater is not another victim of false impression."-Outlook. "The narrative, evidence, and speeches, edited by Mr. Roughead, Writer to the Signet, from the official reports, are full of curious matter, psychological, legal, social, and personal. We march from puzzle to puzzle, and from perplexity we at no point escape."--Morning Post. "I owe much to your admirable book."-SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. "A writer whose thorough knowledge of the subject and scrupulous care in expressing himself will be obvious to anyone who reads carefully the report of the case which he has edited, and the introduction which he has prefixed to it."-SIR HERBERT STEPHEN in The Times. MRS. M'LACHLAN. "Tells in full, with documentary and other appendices, the story of the notorious Sandyford Mystery, which startled and bewildered the early sixties."--Pall Mall Gazette. "Mr. Roughead is, like myself, a student of legal and historical mysteries, and he has, as far as a mere amateur can judge, edited this strange trial with minute accuracy and industry."-MR. ANDREW LANG in The Illustrated London News. The fifty-year-old mystery is as mach a mystery now as in the sixties, and Mr. Roughead's book will find many readers among those interested in the study of crimes."--Westminster Gazette. "The Sandyford Mystery of 1862, with its unique sequel, is admirably treated by Mr. William Roughead, W.S., in his 'Trial of Mrs. M'Lachlan.' To persons unfamiliar with Scottish criminal pro- cedure, few trials can be more surprising and instructive."-- Morning Post. |
