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The Book Of Scottish Story: Historical, Humorous, Legendary And Imaginative, EPUB eBook

The Book Of Scottish Story: Historical, Humorous, Legendary And Imaginative EPUB

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Excerpt: "Next to its Ballads and Songs, the Stories of Scottish Literature are the most characteristic exponents of the national spirit.

Allowing for the changes which time and the progress of civilization have effected in the national manners and character since the beginning of the present century-the era to which the Stories chiefly refer-they shall be found to delineate the social and domestic features of Scottish life as faithfully as the Ballads do the spirit and sentiment of an earlier age; or as the daily press reflects, rather than portrays, those of the present day.

While Songs-the simple expressions of feelings and sentiments, musically rendered-change, in so far as they exhibit habits and manners, yet their form is lasting.

Not so the Ballads, whose true historical successors are Prose Stories, as Novels are those of Romances."

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