Poet and novelist, son of a farmer, was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and educated at the University of Aberdeen, and at the Independent College, Highbury. He became minister of a congregation at Arundel, but after a few years retired, on account partly of theological considerations, partly of a threatened, breakdown of health. He then took to literature, and published his first book, Within and Without [1856], a dramatic poem, Poems followed in 1857, and Phantastes, a Faerie Romance, in 1858. He then turned to fiction, and produced numerous novels, of which David Elginbrod [1862], Alec Forbes [1865], Robert Falconer [1868], The Marquis of Lossie [1877], and Sir Gibbie [1879], are perhaps the best.  Contents At the Back of the North Wind Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women Lilith, a romance The Princess and the Goblin The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. The Princess and the Curdie What's Mine's Mine Hope of the Gospel Robert Falconer Sir Gibbie Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood There & Back The Marquis of Lossie A Double Story A Dish of Orts Adela Cathcart, Volume I Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 At the Back of the North Wind The Portent and Other Stories The Seaboard Parish, Complete Far Above Rubies David Elginbrod Thomas Wingfold, Curate Salted with Fire The Flight of the Shadow Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Miracles of Our Lord The Vicar's Daughter Heather and Snow Stephen Archer and Other Tales Malcolm