Excerpt from Modern Scottish Poets, Vol. 10: With Biographical and Critical Notices

The themes of our poets are manifold, and this is proved by a glance at the contents of each of our volumes. In the factory, the workshop, the warehouse, the office, and the study, pictures of Childhood's happy days in country districts, and of rural scenes and village life, are drawn as vividly as if on canvas. We have the cluster of theeket biggins and kailyards the farm toon, with its horses, cows, sheep, and swine cackling hens picking m the cornyard, or ¿apping their wings in the dusty loan noisy ducks spluttering about the mill dam, the kitchen lass milking the kye, and the herd loon driving them to the park, and many other simple and peaceful scenes. But of this more hereafter. We have already written five or six prefaces, and we hope to make a big one at the end.

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