SHW No. 25-26

 Table of Contents

 Thomas Crawford 1920-2014

 By H.B. de Groot and Elaine Petrie

 THE 2015 DOUGLAS MACK LECTURE

 Identity Crises and Unaccountable Acts: More Contexts for Hogg's Justified Sinner

 By Angela Esterhammer

ARTICLES

Hogg's Extremities: Poetry and Advertising

By Gillian Hughes 

'All that I choose to tell you is this': Improvement Confronts the Supernatural in Hogg's Short Fictions

By Gerard Lee McKeever

 Fronti nulla fides -- that is -- 'Put no confidences in Title-pages': The Responsible Reading of Paratexts in Hogg's Confessions

By Ruth Knezevich

James Hog's 'Old Errors digged out of their Graves'

By Alasdair Thanisch and Peter Thanisch

'To illustrate something scarcely tangible': The Novels of the Shepherd and L-- of C--d

By Thomas Richardson

NOTES

Two Further James Hogg Letters

By Graham Tulloch and Judy King,

REVIEWS

Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd, by James Hogg 

Edited by Kirsteen Mccue with Janette Currie, 

Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs, by James Hogg 

Edited by Kirsteen McCue with Janette Currie and Megan Coyer

Reviewed by C. M. Jackson-Houlston

Introduction and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Waverley to A Legend of the Wars of Montrose, by Walter Scott 

Introduction and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous, by Walter Scott, edited by J. H. Alexander with P. D. Garside and Claire Lamont

Reviewed by Graham Tulloch

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Vol. 3, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880 

Edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor

Reviewed by Ian Duncan

William Maginn and the British Press: A Critical Biography, by David E. Latané

Reviewed by Gillian Hughes

Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine: 'An Unprecedented Phenomenon' 

Edited by Robert Morrison and Daniel S. Roberts

Reviewed by Kim Wheatley

Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition, by Timothy C. Baker

 Reviewed by Caroline McCracken-Flesher

 Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Reconstructed by Untitled Projects

 Reviewed by Robin MacLachlan