One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

The Little Minister

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Little Minister

By JAMES M. BARRIE Condensation by MARGUERITE E. ALLEY GAVIN DISHART was barely twenty-one when he and his mother came to Thrums. All…

The Little Minister: Gavin

Many scenes in the little minister's life come back to me. The first time I ever thought of writing his love-story as an old man's gift to…

The Little Minister: Babbie

The happy Nanny persuaded the minister to stay for tea. That tea-drinking bewitched the little minister, for the fascinating Babbie teased…

The Little Minister: Rintoul

Babbie told Gavin her story then--that she was to be Lord Rintoul's bride on the morrow. He had found her when a mite, fallen from a gipsy…

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