J. M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Walter Besant appeared in this review, as well as Kailyard writers like Crockett and MacLaren. Dixon Scott wrote, "Every Thursday, in the British Weekly, Sir W. Robertson Nicoll addresses an audience far more numerous, far more responsive, far more eagerly in earnest, than that controlled by any other living critic. . . . He controls the contents of . . . bookshelves of a thousand homes--they change beneath his fingers. . . and every alteration means the modification of a mind. What Claudius Clear reads on Wednesday, half of Scotland and much of England is reading before the end of the week" (qtd. in "William Robertson Nicoll, the Kailyard School, and the Question of Popular Culture" by Andrew Nash, 63)

A journal of social and Christian progress. 1954 editions include articles covering 5th anniversary of founding of PRC.