James Grant Books


Colville of the Guards, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Grant

When Mary came forth into the garden again, she wore an old straw hat to save her complexion from the glares and had the smartest and most becoming of lawn-tennis aprons pinned over her dress, with Sw..

Colville of the Guards, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Grant

The next day found him among the wide and stately streets of the Modern Athens, willing to enlist in the first regiment any member of which came in his way, for he was drawing a chance in the lottery ..

Colville of the Guards, Volume 3 (of 3)

James Grant

The Vierlander had some doubts and scruples at first; but when a few twenty-groschen pieces were slipped into her hand these evaporated, and a smile of acquiescence spread over her weather-beaten but ..

The Highlanders of Glen Ora

James Grant

We had met repeatedly in our mutual rides, rambles, and wanderings, and the impression she made upon me, when acting as her guide to the old ruined chapels, towers, and burial-places, the high cascade..

The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume I

James Grant

The old Scottish regiment from which the following story takes its title, and of which the hero is described as a member, is on the point of losing its identity, and after the July of this year will b..

The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume II

James Grant

Hew, among other 'caddish' tastes and propensities, was fond of 'sherry-glass flirtations' at bars and buffets, where sham smiles are bartered for button-hole flowers, amid bantered compliments and ho..

The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume III

James Grant

Hew was far from dying yet, as the doctor averred; and Sir Piers too—he 'had seen too much of that sort of thing up country, not to know all about it;' but, in his lowness and perturbation of spirit, ..

The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Grant

No history of the 25th Foot is in existence; hence, as the brief outline of its early career in the first volume is substantially correct, it may prove of interest to some readers. I may add that the ..