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Excerpt from The Macdonalds of GlengarryIt is, however, much more difficult to decide which of the other leading claimants are entitled to that high and distinguished honour.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work,...

Excerpt from The Isle of Skye in 1882-1883: Illustrated by a Full Report of the Trials of the Braes and Glendale Crofters, at Inverness and Edinburgh, And an Introductory Chapter, Also a Full Report of the Trial of Patrick Sellar All that I have written, and much more, about the Braes has been corroborated by the witnesses examined before the Commission, and the factor for Lord Macdonald, Mr. Alexander Macdonald, has not, in his long and - fr...

Excerpt from Historical Tales and Legends: Of the Highlands These tales and legends were very favourably received by a Wide circle of readers, and by the Press generally, as they appeared from month to month in the Celtic Magazine. They are now pub lished in a collected form at the request of many who have previously perused them. I would like to present the. Public with the names of their authors, but as one of them - the Norman and Torquil ...

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Excerpt from The World's Heritage of Epical, Heroic and Romantic Literature, Vol. 1 of 2 This volume deals with the greatest epics in the world's literature, and the period of time covered embraces roughly 4000 years. A beginning is made with the epic of Gilgamesh, which takes us back to the "dawn" of literature, and even to the "dawn" of civilization, for the Babylonian Homer, Sinliqi-unnini, utilized floating traditions regarding a tribal h...

Excerpt from The Life of Paul Jones, Vol. 2 Q - Alterations in the Alliance. - Jones is charged with En mity to the French - Defends Himself from the Charge. Landais obtains Leave to return to America. Proceeds to L'orient. - Asks the Command of the Alliance. - Reply of Franklin. - Intrigue of Arthur Lee to place Landais in Command. Discontent of the Crew about prize-money. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...

Excerpt from Liszt In his essay on Wagner, included in this series, Mr. Frederick Corder writes of Franz Liszt: 'As time goes on, every fact concerning this man that comes to light exalts him higher and higher in our esteem, till he seems likely to assume the legendary proportions of a King Arthur of music.' Since his death - over thirty-five years ago - the volumes of correspondence between himself and Wagner, the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein...

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Excerpt from Myths of China and Japan Isles of the Blest in the Eastern Ocean, they were not alone in Asia in believing in a Western Paradise situated among the mountains. The Chinese, as Laufer demonstrates in his Jade, did not pass through in China that culture stage called the Neolithic When they first settled in Shensi, they searched for and found jade, as did the carriers of bronze who first entered Europe. There was obviously an ac qui...

Excerpt from Voyages From Montreal, Through the Continent of North America, Vol. 2 of 2: To the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793, With an Account of the Rise and State of Fur Trade January 1, - Ou the first day of J an uary, my people, in conformity to the usual custom, awoke me at the break of day with the discharge of fire-arms, with which they congratulated the appearance of the new year. In return, they were treated with plenty ...

Excerpt from Indian Myth and Legend This volume deals with the myths and legends of India, which survive to us in the rich and abundant storehouse of Sanskrit literature, and with the rise and growth of Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jainism &c., The reader is introduced to the various sacred works of the Hindus, including the ancient invocatory hymn of the four Vedas, the later speculative and expository "Forest Books" in which "the Absolute is grasp...

Excerpt from History of the Chisholms: With Genealogies of the Principal, Families of the Name I claim to have disposed of the absurd and ground less contention, so long maintained by the Northern clan, that they sprang originally from the Earls of Caithness and Orkney, and to have established, on the contrary, that they first came to the Highlands from the Scottish Borders, and that all the families of the name, north and south, can trace th...

Excerpt from History of the Camerons: With Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name The portion of the book devoted to the career of General Sir Allan Cameron of Erracht, has been re-written from a series of articles, on that distinguished soldier, that appeared, anonymously, in the first volume of the Celfz'c Magazine, and for the sketch of Colonel John Cameron of Fassiefern, distinguished in the same field, I am mainly indebted to ...

Excerpt from A Year in Spain, Vol. 1 of 2: By a Young American Giving his Satanic Majesty due credit for the tempts tion mentioned in our motto, the present work originated in a desire to convey some notion of the manners and custoins of the Spanish nation. The writer found much that was peculiar and interesting in them, and was thence led to think, that what had furnished so much pleasure in the immediate study, might not be wholly unattract...

Excerpt from Embro and Zorra Re-Union, Ontario, Canada, August 1st to 4th, 1909: Memorial Sermon Preached on the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Arrival of the Reverend Donald MackenzieThough distant from home, splendor dazzles in vain, 0, give us our dearly loved 'zorra' again.A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which seek through the world is not found elsewhere.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...

Excerpt from The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer: Coinneach Odhar FiosaicheFifty Large paper copies are thrown off, printed on thick Crown Quarto, giving a handsome margin, and making altogether a handsome unique volume for the Library, or the Drawing-room table, of a work which the Seatsman, and all the press of the country. Recommended to the lovers Of the marvellous as a sweet morsel.On the roth of October, 1881, the author of the Appendix on...

Excerpt from The Life of Paul Jones, Vol. 1Being a new Inquiry into the true Dates of the Birth and Death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: including an original Harmony of the Gospels, now first arranged in the Order of Tune.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Excerpt from History of the Frasers of Lovat: With Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name: To Which Is Added Those of Dunballoch and Phopachy Many other kind friends, to whom I must tender my acknowledgments without mentioning their several names, have also assisted by the use of valuable family papers and genealogical information. Indeed, except in the case of two or three individuals, I have received every aid and encouragement f...

Excerpt from The American in England Feeling that irresistible impulse which prompts a man to perpetrate a book, and having no land of his own on which to amble quietly about and write a work of travels dryshod, according to the approved method set forth in the motto, the author, as an only resource, was forced to cross the water, and visit, in his proper person, the country which [he proposed to describe. About the Publisher Forgotten Book...