1896. 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: Pandemonium; Peace; A Home of Many Generations; A Secret Chamber; Concerning Besoms; A Pleasaunce; A Woman of the New Dispensation; A Woman of the Old Dispensation; A Daughter of Debate; A Supra-Lapsarian; In the Gloaming; Kilbogie Manse; Preparing for the Sacrament; A Moderate; Joint Potentates; Dried Rose Leaves; Smoldering Fires; Love Sickness; The Fear of God; The Wounds of a Friend; Light at Eventide; Without Fear and Without Reproach; Marget Howe's Confessional; and Love is Lord. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.