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A Shetland Minister of the 18th Century.
Being Passages in the Life of the Rev. John Mill.
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"We have read this little book with real pleasure, and we wish it well."—Saturday Review.
"John Mill was a character such as Robert Louis Stevenson would have rendered immortal, and that Mr. Willcock's well-written sketch portrays with skill."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"A very remarkable life-history."—New Age.
"A curious phase of Scottish life and character."—Standard.
"A most readable little book."—Athenæum.
"It is delightful to receive such a pretty book.... It depicts a striking and interesting character and phase of life."—British Weekly.
"A readable and interesting life-story."—Literary World.
"The whole volume is very amusing reading."—St. Martin's-le-Grand.
"This is in every way a charming book. Its get-up is tastefully quaint, and the subject matter fresh and interesting."—Scottish Notes and Queries.
"A delightful little volume.... A book of no ordinary interest."—Presbyterian.
"The picture of a man of remarkable vigour and individuality of character."—Scotsman.
"A really readable little book, which should find a considerably wider public than that of the Shetland Islands."—Glasgow Herald.
"Mill was a man of mark in his day, and his life-story is simply and worthily told in this little volume."—Aberdeen Free Press.
"Glimpses of old-world life in these remote islands."—Scottish Pictorial.
"A perspicuous and complete sketch."—Dundee Advertiser.
"A little volume which is full of charm and interest."—John O'Groat Journal.
"The work is one of high literary ability, is of more than ordinary value for the light it throws on the religious and moral condition of the times it covers, and is specially interesting from the uniqueness of the character of Mr. Mill."—North British Daily Mail.
"A curious and interesting picture of old Shetland life."—Elgin Courant.
"Mr. Mill's idiosyncrasies furnish an unfailing source of amusement."—United Presbyterian Magazine.
"The whole work is excellent, and, we cannot doubt, will be welcomed in a wider area than the northern islands in which Mr. Mill spent his life."—Banffshire Journal.
"A very interesting biography, which has already and deservedly attracted a good deal of attention."—Northern Ensign.
"We commend the perusal of the volume to all those in any way interested in Scotland and her past."—Liverpool Daily Post.
"We can recommend the book as interesting to many more than Shetland readers."—Life and Work.
"One can see what a romance Stevenson could have constructed out of Mill's diary, which seems incredibly old-fashioned and primitive."—Sketch.
"A most interesting and readable volume, containing many quaint and curious pictures of Shetland life and manners during last century."—Orkney Herald.
"Mr. Willcock has done well to provide this record of a man so memorable."—United Presbyterian Record.
"There is a great deal that is interesting in this book.... Mr. Willcock has done his work well, and we feel indebted to him for making us acquainted with a character which ought not to be forgotten."—Free Church Monthly.
"Mr. Mill stands out as quite a remarkable man. Though the volume will have a special interest to the people of the Shetland Isles, it will be read with much interest on the mainland."—Perthshire Advertiser.
"A succinct and readable account of Mill's life.... Nothing essential has been omitted, and nothing unnecessary has been retained.... The volume furnishes interesting reading from beginning to end."—Shetland News.
"The book is eminently readable, and will well repay perusal.... A vein of quiet humour, mingled with delicate satire, crops up every here and there in its pages."—Shetland Times.
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Transcriber's Notes: Hyphenation has been standardized, for instance, "footnote" rather than "foot-note". Spelling has not been standardized, for instance "Lieutenant-General" and "Lieutenant-Generall", or "falsehood" and "falshood". The period following a royal's roman number belongs, for instance, "King Charles. is".