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Daniel Turner Holmes. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LITERARY TOURING
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
VILLAGE LIBRARIES
DIFFICULTIES OF TRAVEL
LITERARY SOCIETIES IN THE HIGHLANDS
GAELIC BOOKS
HAPPINESS AND GENIALITY OF NATIVES
OBAN TO GAIRLOCH
WINTER SAILING
A CROFTING VILLAGE
HORRORS OF THE MINCH
NOTES ON LEWIS
HIGHLAND DOCTORS
HOTELS AND ANGLERS
RECENT BOOKS
MILITARY
MORAY FIRTH
AMONG THE MINERS
HAND-LOOM WEAVING
PROFESSOR BLACKIE IN THE HIGHLANDS
NOTE ON INVERNESS SURNAMES, ETC
CHAPTER II. MUSIC, SPEECHES, AND LITERATURE
SCOTCH A READING NATION
HARDSHIPS OF STUDENTS IN OLD DAYS
HOMER IN SCALLOWAY
WHEN EDUCATION ENDS
OBJECT OF CHAPTER
MUSIC
M.P.'s
RURAL DEPOPULATION
ITS CAUSES
EMIGRATION
VILLAGE HALLS
THE MOON
A LECTURE IN ISLAY
SOME SPEECHES
MENTAL AND MATERIAL WEALTH
REAL GREATNESS
A HIGHLAND LAIRD ON LITERATURE
VARIETIES OF CHAIRMEN
COMING TO THE POINT
MORAL OBLIGATION
COMPLIMENT TO PAISLEY
ORATORY AT SALEN
LECTURE IN A DUNGEON, Etc
SURPRISES
A VISIT TO THE BORDERS
TARBOLTON
THE SCOTCH LANGUAGE
CHOICE BOOKS
THE ESSAYISTS
A BANFF THEORY
GOLDSMITH IN GAELIC
BIBLIA ABIBLIA
SECOND-HAND BOOKS
FAVOURITES
HORACE
Curriculo pulverem
Tergeminis honoribus
Patrios agros
Mox reficit rates
Lene Caput
Conjugis immemor
Praemia frontium
SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS
XENOPHON
FRENCH LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM
GIL BLAS
ROMANCE AND AUGUSTANISM
VICTORIAN WRITERS
CELT AND SAXON
CHAPTER III. ECCLESIASTICAL
SECTARIAN FEELING
TYPICAL ANECDOTES
MUSIC AND RELIGION
ETHICAL TEACHING IN SCHOOLS
THE MODERATES
A SAVOURY BOOK
THE SABBATH
THE MEN OF SKYE
THE AULDEST KIRK
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
AN INTERLUDE OF METRE
I
II
III
IV. I
II
III
V
THE CHRISTIAN BRETHREN
DRIMNIN IN MORVEN
CRAIGNISH
A MODEL MINISTER
MINISTERIAL TRIALS IN OLDEN TIMES
AN ARTFUL DODGER
SOME ANECDOTES FROM GIGHA
GROWING POPULARITY OF RUSKIN
CHAPTER IV. EDUCATIONAL
SOME INSULAR DOMINIES
EDUCATION ACT OF 1872
EDUCATION IN THE HIGHLANDS
FEEDING THE HUNGRY
PARISH COUNCIL BOARDERS
DWINDLING ATTENDANCES
ARNISDALE, ETC
GOLSPIE TECHNICAL SCHOOL
ON THE SIDLAWS
SOME SURPRISES
ARRAN SCHOOLS
SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
STUDY OF SCOTT
THE OLD CLASSICAL DOMINIE
VOGUE OF LATIN IN FORMER TIMES
TEACHERS AND EXAMINATIONS
HOWLERS
COMPETING SUBJECTS
CHAPTER V. A TRIP TO SHETLAND
ABERDEEN
EN ROUTE
LERWICK
PAST AND PRESENT SAINTS
SOME NOTES ON THE ISLANDS
A SHETLAND POET
A VISIT TO BRESSAY
FROM LERWICK TO SANDWICK
QUARFF
"THAT HOLY MAN, NOAH."
FLADIBISTER
CUNNINGSBURGH
"KEEPING OFF."
THE INDIGNANT ELDER
TORQUIL HALCROW
PHILOLOGY
A SANDWICK GENTLEMAN
LOCAL TALES
FOULAH AND FAIR ISLE
THE FISHING SEASON
CHAPTER VI. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS AND THEIR ANECDOTES
TRIALS OF COMMERCIALS
THE TWO-EST-FACED KNAVE
MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN
ANECDOTES OF THE SMOKING-ROOM
SONNET TO RALEIGH
"PEELIN'S BELOW THE TREE."
"SHE'S AWAY."
A MEAN HOUSE
ONE OF THE DIRECTOR'S WIVES
TEMPERANCE HOTELS
A MEMORIAL WINDOW
THE BLASTED HEATH
THE DAY FOR IT
THE CONVERTED DRUMMER
A CIRCULAR TICKET
A COMPOUND POSSESSIVE
SIXTEEN MEDALS
"SHE'S AULD, AND SHE'S THIN, AND SHE'LL KEEP."
THE WILL O' THE DEAD
SORRY FOR LONDON
"RAITHER UNCEEVIL."
AN UNWELCOME RECITATION
Influenza
A WORD IN SEASON
A NAIRN CRITIC
"A GRAND DAY FOR IT."
A PRO-BOER
"FALLS OF BRUAR, ONLY, PLEASE!"
A BAD CASE OF NERVES
CHAPTER VII. LEGENDS AND LITERARY NOTABILIA
GAIRLOCH FOLK-LORE
PRINCE OLAF AND HIS BRIDE
A LAIRD WHO HAD SEEN A FAIRY
TALES FROM LOCH BROOM
THE DANCE OF DEATH
THE KILDONAN MIDWIFE
THE MAGIC HERRING
TAISCH
ANTIQUITIES OF DUNVEGAN
MISCELLANEOUS TERRORS
ST. KILDA
LADY GRANGE
PIERLESS TIREE
LOCHBUIE IN MULL
INVERARAY CASTLE
THE SACRED ISLE
APPIN
MACDONALD'S GRATITUDE
NOTES ON THE TROSSACHS
LOCHFYNE-SIDE
MACIVORS, MACVICARS, AND MACALLISTERS
RED HECTOR
MACPHAIL OF COLONSAY
TALES FROM SPEYSIDE
TOM EUNAN!
SHAWS AND GRANTS
THE WISHING WELL
OSSIAN AND MACPHERSON
AT THE FOOT O' BENNACHIE
HARLAW
LOCHABER REIVERS
REAY AND TWICKENHAM
ROB DONN
REV. MR. MILL OF DUNROSSNESS
CHAPTER VIII. METRICAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY
I. ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL-TRAIN AT A HIGHLAND STATION
II. DEFOE[34] (FATHER OF JOURNALISM)
III. A VILLAGE TOPER
IV. A REVEREND HELLENIST
V. ANTIGONE (READ IN A HIGHLAND MANSE)
VI. SHADOWS OF THE MANSE
I
II
III
IV
VII "MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS."
VIII. SADDELL (KINTYRE)
IX. SPRINGTIME IN PERTHSHIRE
X. DR. GEORGE MACDONALD'S CREED.[35] (WRITTEN AT CULLEN)
XI. ABBOTSFORD
XII. CARLYLE (AT ECCLEFECHAN)
XIII. SHELLEY.[36]
XIV. PICTURE IN AN INN
XV. RAIN-STORM AT LOCH AWE
XVI. KINLOCHEWE
XVII. GENERAL WADE
XVIII. THE SOUND OF RAASAY IN DECEMBER
XIX. LES NEIGES D'ANTAN
I
II
III
IV
V
XX. THE ISLANDS OF THE NESS
XXI. AMERICAN TOURIST LOQUITUR (AT BERRIEDALE, CAITHNESS)
XXII. THE MINERS
XXIII. IN A COUNTRY GRAVEYARD.[38]
XXIV. NO PLACE LIKE HOME
INDEX (Chiefly of Proper Names)
FOOTNOTES
