1895. Ian Maclaren is the pen name of Dr. John Watson, a popular preacher and able minister. He published a number of religious works under his own name, but as Ian Maclaren he was known as a leading member of the Kailyard School of Scottish fiction which came into being towards the end of the nineteenth century. Maclaren's first work in this genre, is this volume, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. Contents: Domsie; A Highland Mystic; His Mother's Sermon; The Transformation of Lachlan Campbell; The Cunning Speech of Drumtochty; A Wise Woman; A Doctor of the Old School. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.