Excerpt from The Spell of ScotlandYou cannot come back from the far corners of the earth - to which Scotland has sent such majorities of her sons, Since the old days when she squandered them in battle on the Border or on the Continent, to the new days when She squanders them in colonization SO that half a dozen of her counties Show decline in popula tion - but you must come to Glasgow. The steamers are second-class compared with those which make port farther south. They are slower. But their very lack Of modern Splen dour and their slow speed give time in which to reconstruct your Scotland, out of which perhaps you have been banished since the Covenant, or the Fifteen, or the Forty Five, or perhaps out of which you have never taken the strain which makes you romantic and Cavalier, or Presby terian and canny. We who have it think that you who have it not lose something very precious for which there is no substitute. We pity you.More clannish than most national tribesmen, we cannot understand how you can endure exist ence without a drop of Scotch.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, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.