Coloured Spectacles

Published in 1938, “Coloured Spectacles” presents a series of autobiographical essays by Frederick John Niven. He was a regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, most of which were historical romances set in Scotland and Canada. Contents include: Scotland Still Scotland Four Men—and Some Horses Ships and the Sea North Wales—and the Old Man at Chester England Westward Honolulu Splendour in the Grass A Garden in the Wilderness Maple-Leaf and Thistle