Lads Love was originally published in 1897. PREFACE: The somewhat peculiar and composite flavour of this little book has resulted from an attempt to epitomise the varios humours, idylls, loves and tragedies of moorland life in Scotland well nigh half a century ago. The places are real, and the local colour exact; but the characters are wholly ideal, and cannot be identified with any actual men and women, alive or dead. I have taken the title " Lad"s Love" from the old name for the scented Wormwood, or Southern-wood, a sprig of which wooers used to wear when they went courting, and our grandmothers to carry with them in their bibles to church.......Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900"s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.