This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...and of her creation, consummated by the pen of Scott, we may have a peep at will in a few wonderful pages of The Abbot. It is curious to reflect that the last living prototype of Scott's long array of Scottish characters belonged to Kinross, and that this personage was comparatively recently still moving about in the ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...and of her creation, consummated by the pen of Scott, we may have a peep at will in a few wonderful pages of The Abbot. It is curious to reflect that the last living prototype of Scott's long array of Scottish characters belonged to Kinross, and that this personage was comparatively recently still moving about in the flesh, ignorant of the niche in fiction in which she had been for ever fixed. All old and many middle-aged people in Kinross must remember Mother Nicneven, the parent of Satan Pate. The cursing accomplishments of the son had caught Scott's ear when he was on a visit to Blairadam, and drawn his attention to the family. LOCHLEVEN AND THE BISHOPSHIRE. Till the remarkable discovery was made, not quite half a century ago, that Lochleven trout will rise to the lure, the only interest attaching to the now well and widely known Kinross-shire lake was of a historical character. The interest centred in two buildings that stood--the one a monastery, the other a castle--on different islands of the lake. One of those buildings, associated with the sainted name of Serf or Servan, "the dark-attired Culdee" (whose hermit disciples, be it remembered, enjoyed in their lonely Inch the pious benefactions of Macbeth), has indeed quite succumbed to the weight and wear of ten centuries. The other, representing for its predecessor as well as itself a less remote antiquity, is also a mere ruin; but it still maintains above ground a sufficiency of coherent tower and wall to satisfy the gaze of the antiquarian visitor. It has traditions, received from the ancestral castle, of Wallace and the English Edwards; but its own proper memories of Queen Mary are its richest possession. The veriest urchin that has dipped into the romance of Scottish history is familiar w...
Read Less
Add this copy of Furth in Field: a Volume of Essays on the Life, to cart. $52.18, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.