Citation: George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865), 3 vols.
Alec Forbes of Howglen. By George MacDonald, M.A. (Motto from Wordsworth’s Second Evening Voluntary.) In three volumes. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865.
8vo.
- vol. I: pp. vi + 304
- vol. II: pp. iv + 300
- vol. III: pp. iv 4- 300 + 6 adv.
Reviewed in the Athenaum (June 17, 1865), p. 810.
This novel, which is largely autobiographical, dealing with Huntly, was originally to have been called The Little Grey Town, but the publishers rejected that title “as not conforming with the then fashionable nomenclature in fiction” (Greville MacDonald’s George MacDonald, p. 19). Howglen was really Upper Pirriesmill, known as The Farm, which had been leased by the Duke of Gordon to the MacDonalds in 1821, and on which George spent his boyhood. It is now (1925) in the hands of Robert G. Troup. “Murdoch Malison” is MacDonald’s schoolmaster, the Rev. C. S., “a man with quite a savage sense of duty,” who emigrated to Australia (Greville MacDonald’s George MacDonald, p. 60, in which book other identifications are made, pp. 25, 35, 113).
- 1865. Published as vols. 801 and 802 of Tauchnitz’s Collection of British Authors, Leipzig: 8vo, pp. iv + 339 + I: pp. iv + 335 + 1.
- 1872. Published by Harper, New York: 8vo, pp. 171. (New York Pub. Lib.).
- 1867. Published by Hurst and Blackett in one volume: 8vo, pp. [iv] + 440 + 4 adv., with a frontispiece by Arthur Hughes, engraved by Saddler.
- 1891? Published by G. Routledge & Sons, New York: 12mo, pp. vi 4- 467 4- one plate (New York Pub, Lib.).
- 1900. Published by Hurst and Blackett: 8vo, pp. 440.
- 1901. Sixpenny edition by Hurst and Blackett.
- 1921. Published by Hurst and Blackett: pp. 440.
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