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CONTENTS
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Electric Scotland News
Electric Scotland Community
The Flag in the Wind
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
Poems of George Alexander Rodger
Memoirs of the Jacobites
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Fighter for Justice
Our Australian Cousins
Memoirs of Robert Dollar
James Legge, Missionary and Scholar
Robert Burns Lives!
Sketch of the Esquimaux found in the Territory of Boothia Felix
The Fall of Canada (New Book)
Through the Long Day (New Book)
A Scot in China of Today
Tent Life in Tigerland (New Book)
Sketches Illustrating the Early Settlement and History of Glengarry in Canada (New Book)
Electric Scotland News
----------------------
Three new books for you this week for which see more below. John Henderson was reading the Robert Burns Lives! column and as it happens he's been researching one of the people Frank mentioned in the article. As a result he is also sending us in a book about him.
So all in all while I am now spending a significant time working on the new Canadian site there is lots still going up on Electric Scotland.
-----
Turns out my scheduled meeting at the Fergus Highland Games on Saturday has now been cancelled. This makes it less likely that I will attend this year as it was principally to meet a person coming over from Scotland but as I say he's had to cancel.
ABOUT THE STORIES
-----------------
Some of the stories in here are just parts of a larger story so do check out the site for the full versions. You can always find the link in our "What's New" section in our site menu and at http://www.electricscotland.com/rss/whatsnew.php
Electric Scotland Community
---------------------------
I must say I enjoy visiting the community each day as there are often smashing wee articles and videos to view. Ranald posted up a link to a video taken from the space station of various parts of the world. Then there is one of a cat having a shower and lots more to enjoy.
Our community can be viewed at http://www.electricscotland.org but of course if you are reading this you're already in it :-)
THE FLAG IN THE WIND
--------------------
This weeks issue is now available compiled by Jennifer Dunn. The article on "The kids aren't alright" is an interesting commentary on the recent riots in England but it could happen in Scotland.
You can get to the Flag at http://www.scotsindependent.org
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
----------------------------------------
And of the Border Raids, Forays and Conflicts by John Parker Lawson (1839). This is a new publication we're starting on which is in 4 volumes. We intend to post up 2 or 3 stories each week until complete.
This week we've started the final volume 4 with...
Feud of Frendraught
Troops under Gustavus Adolphus
MacGregors
You can read these at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/wars/
Poems of George Alexander Rodger
--------------------------------
Added some more poems...
First Concert
Harvest Home Ceilide
Braemar Gathering
which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/rodger.htm
Memoirs of the Jacobites
------------------------
Of 1715 and 1745 by Mrs Thomson (1845) in 3 volumes. We intend to add a chapter a week until complete.
I've now added "James Drummond, Styled Duke of Perth".
The account starts...
In a history of the House of Drummond, compiled in the year 1681, by Lord Strathallan, the author thus addresses his relative, James, Earl of Perth, on the subject of their common ancestry:
"Take heire a view of youre noble and renowned ancestors, of whose blood you are descended in a right and uninterrupted male line; as also of so many of the consanguinities and ancient affinities of youre family in the infancy thereof, as the penury of our oldest records and the credit of our best traditions has happily preserved from the grave of oblivion. The splendor of your fame," he adds, " needs no commendation, more than the sune does to a candle ; and even a little of the truth from me may be obnoxious to the slander of flattery, or partiality, by reason of my interest in it. Therefore I '11 say the less; only this is generally known for a truth, that justice, loyaltie, and prudence, which have been but incident virtues and qualities in others, are all three as inherent ornaments, and hereditary in yours."
Such praise far exceeds in value the mere homage to ancient lineage. "With these noble qualities, the race of Drummond combined the courage to defend their rights, and the magnanimity to protect the feeble.
This last characteristic is beautifully described in the following words"
"For justice, as a poor stranger, often thrust out of doors from great houses, where grandeur and utility are commonly the idolls that's worshipped,—quid non mortalia pectora cogis? —has always found sanctuary in yours, which has ever been ane encouragement to the good, a terror to the bad, and free from the oppression of either."
To this magnanimous spirit were added loyalty to the sovereign, and prudence in the management of private affairs; a virtue of no small price, for it rendered the House of Drummond independent of Court favour, and gave to its prosperity a solid basis. "The chiefs of this family lived," says their historian, "handsomely, like themselves; and still improved or preserved their fortunes since the first founder."
The origin of this race is, perhaps, as interesting as that of any of the Scottish nobility, and has the additional merit of being well ascertained.
You can read the rest of this long story at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter13.htm
You can read the other chapters as we get them up at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/jacobites
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Fighter for Justice
---------------------------------------------
An Appreciation of his Social and Religious Outlook by Ian M. Fraser (2002).
Added another chapter to this account...
Creator and Creation
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/graham/
Our Australian Cousins
----------------------
By James Inglis (1880)
We've now completed this book with the final chapters.
These can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/auscousins/
Memoirs of Robert Dollar
------------------------
By the Robert Dollar Company in 2 volumes (1917)
We've now completed this book as well with the final chapters.
The other chapters can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/rdollar/
James Legge, Missionary and Scholar
-----------------------------------
By his daughter, Helen Edith Legge (1905)
And yet again we have also completed this book.
The concluding chapters can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/legge/index.htm
Robert Burns Lives!
-------------------
By Frank Shaw
Venders, Purchasers, Admirers: Burnsian ‘Men of Action’ from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century By Dr. Corey E. Andrews
There is a Scottish review journal you need to know about. I am speaking of the Journal of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, also known as the Scottish Literary Review. My association with the journal comes through Drs. Gerry Carruthers and Rhona Brown, both of the University of Glasgow. Dr. Brown is the Reviews Editor, and I wish to thank her publicly for assistance in my obtaining the journal. Rhona also has several articles on Robert Burns Lives! as does Gerry Carruthers. I will always be indebted to both for their interest in and support of our web site.
While perusing the contents of the Spring/Summer 2010 journal, I ran across an article by good friend Corey Andrews of Youngstown State University that I wanted to share with our readers. It was the first of several articles in the section of the journal entitled Robert Burns in 2009, The 250th Anniversary Celebrations. I immediately contacted Corey to request his help. He quickly agreed and advised he would seek permission from the powers that be at the Scottish Literary Review. Dr. Brown did give permission for us to use the article, just as she had done a few months earlier with Article 120, written by Dr. Kenneth Simpson, on the Robert Burns Lives! web site. It is a pleasure to bring you Corey’s article compliments of the Scottish Literary Review. I think it will fascinate any serious student of Robert Burns.
Not being a learner of Latin, I asked Corey to translate his quote Non omnis mortuus est from Horace. He did so graciously - “not all of him is dead”. In my layman’s terminology it brings another meaning to the phrase I have adopted for this web site, “Robert Burns Lives!”
You can get to this article at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...s_lives126.htm
You can also read other article in this series at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...rank/burns.htm
Sketch of the Esquimaux found in the Territory of Boothia Felix
---------------------------------------------------------------
This is an extract taken from the book "Appendix to the Narrative of a second Voyage in search of the North West Passage and of a residence in the Arctic Regions during the years 1829 - 1833" by Sir John Ross, Captain of the Royal Navy.
It has appeared to many of my readers, that the account I have given of the natives of Boothia in the Narrative of my Voyage was more limited than it ought, or would have been, had circumstances permitted — and that correct portraits displaying their features and dress—which I could not afford to give at greater length in the narrative would be acceptable in this portion of the work, I have commenced it, in the first place with a general sketch, and secondly with the individual description and history to accompany and explain each of the drawings.
Thid is actually part of my work on the Canadian site as I will be working on the various ethnioc groups and first nations people on that site. And so if you read this it was also give you a glipse of the new site which is not due for launch until end of September.
You can read this article at http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist.../esquimaux.htm
The Fall of Canada
------------------
A Chapter in the History of the Seven Year's War by George M. Wrong (1914)
Here is what the Preface has to say...
The present volume, 'A Chapter in the History of the Seven Years' War', covers only a year of history in a colony which contained at the time less than one hundred thousand Europeans. It would not be surprising if some reader were to ask whether a study in such detail was worth while. It may be said, however, that the Seven Years' War is one of the most important struggles in the history of mankind, and that the topic of the present volume, the transfer of Canada from French to British sovereignty, was a vital event in the history of the British Empire. If only a small population was directly affected, the issues were none the less far-reaching. The few French in North America in 1760 have now multiplied into nearly three million people, scattered over both Canada and the United States. Already in 1760 they had developed their own type of social life ; they have since clung to it with great tenacity ; and to-day it is one of the factors in the life of Canada which cannot be ignored. Such a study seemed a necessary beginning for investigations in the later history of Canada on which the author has been engaged.
His chief debt in respect to the use of material is to Dr. George H. Locke, Librarian of the Toronto public Library; to the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec ; and to Dr. A. G. Doughty, the Dominion Archivist at Ottawa, upon whose great stores and knowledge he has drawn so freely as to make adequate recognition impossible. Two descendants of chief actors in the drama on opposing sides have rendered kind assistance : M. Rene de Kerallain, great-grandson of Colonel de Bougainville, has given most valuable information and criticism, and Major-General R. Mahon, great-grandson of General Murray, has furnished the contemporary print of his ancestor. To the Rev. Father O'Leary of Quebec the author is indebted for the drawing of the General Hospital. He has received much help from the criticisms of Colonel Wood of Quebec and Professor Egerton of Oxford.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...da/fallndx.htm
Through the Long Day
--------------------
Or Memorials of a Literary Life during half a century by Charles MacKay LL.D. (1887)
This is the book I mentioned above that John Henderson is scanning in for us.
CHARLES MACKAY LLD
(1814-1889)
Charles Mackay, who lived most of his life in southern England, was born in Perth on the 27th of March, 1814 and was educated in the Caledonian Asylum. Glasgow University capped him LLD in 1846. He was a journalist, poet and writer of popular songs who became Sub-Editor of the Morning Chronicle; Editor of the Glasgow Argus; Editor of the Illustrated London News, and Editor of the London Revue. He was also the Special Correspondent of "The Times" at New York from 1862 until 1865. During the Civil War in America his poem "There's a good time coming", when set to music, sold 400,000 copies - surely quite a performance for his day and generation. He was a prolific prose and poetic writer on many topics, literary, biographical, historical and geographical. His autobiography, comprising around 1000 pages, was published in 1886. He died in London on the 24th of December, 1889.
We also have 4 really excellent Poems by Charles MacKay
To My Old Highland Plaid
Strathnaver No More
The Canadian Highlander
My Heart's in the Highlands
And we are also producing "The Scottish Language and its Literary History" By Charles MacKay
You can get to all this at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/mackay/
A Scot in China of Today
------------------------
Got another report in from Ron, A Special Day out in Macau.
You can get to this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter08.htm
His other reports can be found at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../dow/index.htm
Tent Life in Tigerland
----------------------
In which is incorporated "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier" being twelve years reminiscences of a pioneer planter in an Indian Frontier District by James Inglis (1892)
This is the final book we are bringing you following the author around parts of the world in which he lived.
When I wrote "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier," a book which is incorporated with the present volume, I closed it with these words: "If this volume meets the approbation of the public, I may be tempted to draw further on a well-stocked memory, and gossip afresh on Indian life, Indian experiences, and Indian sport," &c. The book was undoubtedly well received. A cheap edition of many thousand copies was struck off by the "Franklin Square Press" in America, and was widely read in the United States; and in Australia regrets have been frequently expressed that the original edition had been exhausted. I am therefore to some extent justified in believing that my Indian gossip has fairly met with the approbation of a large section of the reading public. Hence in the present work I singly resume the thread of my sporting recollections. I have chosen my own way of telling my story and arranging my incidents, so as to add fresh interest, and enlist the attention and the goodwill of my readers as far as possible, and I hope I may have been fairly successful in doing this.
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/tentlife/
Sketches Illustrating the Early Settlement and History of Glengarry in Canada
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
By J. A. MacDonell (1983)
RELATING PRINCIPALLY TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR OF 1775-83, THE WAR OF 1812-14 AND THE REBELLION OF 1837-8, AND THE SERVICES OF THE KING'S ROYAL REGIMENT OF NEW YORK, THE 84 OR ROYAL HIGHLAND EMIGRANT REGIMENT, THE ROYAL CANADIAN VOLUNTEER REGIMENT OF FOOT, THE GLENGARRY FENCIBLE OR BRITISH HIGHLAND REGIMENT, THE GLENGARRY LIGHT INFANTRY REGIMENT, AND THE GLENGARRY MILITIA.
Some terrific accounts of these wars giving much detail that is usually missing in other accounts. I hope you enjoy this book as I did myself and it can be viewed at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/glengarry/
And to finish...
Jimmy Lindsay tells me ...
“When I was about six, we lived on the top floor of a tenement in Tobago Street, and my gran lived in London Road near Glasgow Cross. One day I fell out with my dad, and decided I was going to stay with my gran. So I packed my bag, went all the way down four flights of stairs, out on to the street, when my dad shouted on me from the top floor to come back. I thought he was going to give in to whatever it was I was after, so I went all the way back up the stairs only to meet my dad at the door who handed me half-a-crown and said, ‘Give that to your gran for your keep.”
And that's it for now and hope you all have a good weekend.
Alastair
http://www.electricscotland.com
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Electric Scotland News
Electric Scotland Community
The Flag in the Wind
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
Poems of George Alexander Rodger
Memoirs of the Jacobites
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Fighter for Justice
Our Australian Cousins
Memoirs of Robert Dollar
James Legge, Missionary and Scholar
Robert Burns Lives!
Sketch of the Esquimaux found in the Territory of Boothia Felix
The Fall of Canada (New Book)
Through the Long Day (New Book)
A Scot in China of Today
Tent Life in Tigerland (New Book)
Sketches Illustrating the Early Settlement and History of Glengarry in Canada (New Book)
Electric Scotland News
----------------------
Three new books for you this week for which see more below. John Henderson was reading the Robert Burns Lives! column and as it happens he's been researching one of the people Frank mentioned in the article. As a result he is also sending us in a book about him.
So all in all while I am now spending a significant time working on the new Canadian site there is lots still going up on Electric Scotland.
-----
Turns out my scheduled meeting at the Fergus Highland Games on Saturday has now been cancelled. This makes it less likely that I will attend this year as it was principally to meet a person coming over from Scotland but as I say he's had to cancel.
ABOUT THE STORIES
-----------------
Some of the stories in here are just parts of a larger story so do check out the site for the full versions. You can always find the link in our "What's New" section in our site menu and at http://www.electricscotland.com/rss/whatsnew.php
Electric Scotland Community
---------------------------
I must say I enjoy visiting the community each day as there are often smashing wee articles and videos to view. Ranald posted up a link to a video taken from the space station of various parts of the world. Then there is one of a cat having a shower and lots more to enjoy.
Our community can be viewed at http://www.electricscotland.org but of course if you are reading this you're already in it :-)
THE FLAG IN THE WIND
--------------------
This weeks issue is now available compiled by Jennifer Dunn. The article on "The kids aren't alright" is an interesting commentary on the recent riots in England but it could happen in Scotland.
You can get to the Flag at http://www.scotsindependent.org
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
----------------------------------------
And of the Border Raids, Forays and Conflicts by John Parker Lawson (1839). This is a new publication we're starting on which is in 4 volumes. We intend to post up 2 or 3 stories each week until complete.
This week we've started the final volume 4 with...
Feud of Frendraught
Troops under Gustavus Adolphus
MacGregors
You can read these at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/wars/
Poems of George Alexander Rodger
--------------------------------
Added some more poems...
First Concert
Harvest Home Ceilide
Braemar Gathering
which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/rodger.htm
Memoirs of the Jacobites
------------------------
Of 1715 and 1745 by Mrs Thomson (1845) in 3 volumes. We intend to add a chapter a week until complete.
I've now added "James Drummond, Styled Duke of Perth".
The account starts...
In a history of the House of Drummond, compiled in the year 1681, by Lord Strathallan, the author thus addresses his relative, James, Earl of Perth, on the subject of their common ancestry:
"Take heire a view of youre noble and renowned ancestors, of whose blood you are descended in a right and uninterrupted male line; as also of so many of the consanguinities and ancient affinities of youre family in the infancy thereof, as the penury of our oldest records and the credit of our best traditions has happily preserved from the grave of oblivion. The splendor of your fame," he adds, " needs no commendation, more than the sune does to a candle ; and even a little of the truth from me may be obnoxious to the slander of flattery, or partiality, by reason of my interest in it. Therefore I '11 say the less; only this is generally known for a truth, that justice, loyaltie, and prudence, which have been but incident virtues and qualities in others, are all three as inherent ornaments, and hereditary in yours."
Such praise far exceeds in value the mere homage to ancient lineage. "With these noble qualities, the race of Drummond combined the courage to defend their rights, and the magnanimity to protect the feeble.
This last characteristic is beautifully described in the following words"
"For justice, as a poor stranger, often thrust out of doors from great houses, where grandeur and utility are commonly the idolls that's worshipped,—quid non mortalia pectora cogis? —has always found sanctuary in yours, which has ever been ane encouragement to the good, a terror to the bad, and free from the oppression of either."
To this magnanimous spirit were added loyalty to the sovereign, and prudence in the management of private affairs; a virtue of no small price, for it rendered the House of Drummond independent of Court favour, and gave to its prosperity a solid basis. "The chiefs of this family lived," says their historian, "handsomely, like themselves; and still improved or preserved their fortunes since the first founder."
The origin of this race is, perhaps, as interesting as that of any of the Scottish nobility, and has the additional merit of being well ascertained.
You can read the rest of this long story at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter13.htm
You can read the other chapters as we get them up at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/jacobites
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Fighter for Justice
---------------------------------------------
An Appreciation of his Social and Religious Outlook by Ian M. Fraser (2002).
Added another chapter to this account...
Creator and Creation
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/graham/
Our Australian Cousins
----------------------
By James Inglis (1880)
We've now completed this book with the final chapters.
These can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/auscousins/
Memoirs of Robert Dollar
------------------------
By the Robert Dollar Company in 2 volumes (1917)
We've now completed this book as well with the final chapters.
The other chapters can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/rdollar/
James Legge, Missionary and Scholar
-----------------------------------
By his daughter, Helen Edith Legge (1905)
And yet again we have also completed this book.
The concluding chapters can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/legge/index.htm
Robert Burns Lives!
-------------------
By Frank Shaw
Venders, Purchasers, Admirers: Burnsian ‘Men of Action’ from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century By Dr. Corey E. Andrews
There is a Scottish review journal you need to know about. I am speaking of the Journal of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, also known as the Scottish Literary Review. My association with the journal comes through Drs. Gerry Carruthers and Rhona Brown, both of the University of Glasgow. Dr. Brown is the Reviews Editor, and I wish to thank her publicly for assistance in my obtaining the journal. Rhona also has several articles on Robert Burns Lives! as does Gerry Carruthers. I will always be indebted to both for their interest in and support of our web site.
While perusing the contents of the Spring/Summer 2010 journal, I ran across an article by good friend Corey Andrews of Youngstown State University that I wanted to share with our readers. It was the first of several articles in the section of the journal entitled Robert Burns in 2009, The 250th Anniversary Celebrations. I immediately contacted Corey to request his help. He quickly agreed and advised he would seek permission from the powers that be at the Scottish Literary Review. Dr. Brown did give permission for us to use the article, just as she had done a few months earlier with Article 120, written by Dr. Kenneth Simpson, on the Robert Burns Lives! web site. It is a pleasure to bring you Corey’s article compliments of the Scottish Literary Review. I think it will fascinate any serious student of Robert Burns.
Not being a learner of Latin, I asked Corey to translate his quote Non omnis mortuus est from Horace. He did so graciously - “not all of him is dead”. In my layman’s terminology it brings another meaning to the phrase I have adopted for this web site, “Robert Burns Lives!”
You can get to this article at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...s_lives126.htm
You can also read other article in this series at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...rank/burns.htm
Sketch of the Esquimaux found in the Territory of Boothia Felix
---------------------------------------------------------------
This is an extract taken from the book "Appendix to the Narrative of a second Voyage in search of the North West Passage and of a residence in the Arctic Regions during the years 1829 - 1833" by Sir John Ross, Captain of the Royal Navy.
It has appeared to many of my readers, that the account I have given of the natives of Boothia in the Narrative of my Voyage was more limited than it ought, or would have been, had circumstances permitted — and that correct portraits displaying their features and dress—which I could not afford to give at greater length in the narrative would be acceptable in this portion of the work, I have commenced it, in the first place with a general sketch, and secondly with the individual description and history to accompany and explain each of the drawings.
Thid is actually part of my work on the Canadian site as I will be working on the various ethnioc groups and first nations people on that site. And so if you read this it was also give you a glipse of the new site which is not due for launch until end of September.
You can read this article at http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist.../esquimaux.htm
The Fall of Canada
------------------
A Chapter in the History of the Seven Year's War by George M. Wrong (1914)
Here is what the Preface has to say...
The present volume, 'A Chapter in the History of the Seven Years' War', covers only a year of history in a colony which contained at the time less than one hundred thousand Europeans. It would not be surprising if some reader were to ask whether a study in such detail was worth while. It may be said, however, that the Seven Years' War is one of the most important struggles in the history of mankind, and that the topic of the present volume, the transfer of Canada from French to British sovereignty, was a vital event in the history of the British Empire. If only a small population was directly affected, the issues were none the less far-reaching. The few French in North America in 1760 have now multiplied into nearly three million people, scattered over both Canada and the United States. Already in 1760 they had developed their own type of social life ; they have since clung to it with great tenacity ; and to-day it is one of the factors in the life of Canada which cannot be ignored. Such a study seemed a necessary beginning for investigations in the later history of Canada on which the author has been engaged.
His chief debt in respect to the use of material is to Dr. George H. Locke, Librarian of the Toronto public Library; to the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec ; and to Dr. A. G. Doughty, the Dominion Archivist at Ottawa, upon whose great stores and knowledge he has drawn so freely as to make adequate recognition impossible. Two descendants of chief actors in the drama on opposing sides have rendered kind assistance : M. Rene de Kerallain, great-grandson of Colonel de Bougainville, has given most valuable information and criticism, and Major-General R. Mahon, great-grandson of General Murray, has furnished the contemporary print of his ancestor. To the Rev. Father O'Leary of Quebec the author is indebted for the drawing of the General Hospital. He has received much help from the criticisms of Colonel Wood of Quebec and Professor Egerton of Oxford.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...da/fallndx.htm
Through the Long Day
--------------------
Or Memorials of a Literary Life during half a century by Charles MacKay LL.D. (1887)
This is the book I mentioned above that John Henderson is scanning in for us.
CHARLES MACKAY LLD
(1814-1889)
Charles Mackay, who lived most of his life in southern England, was born in Perth on the 27th of March, 1814 and was educated in the Caledonian Asylum. Glasgow University capped him LLD in 1846. He was a journalist, poet and writer of popular songs who became Sub-Editor of the Morning Chronicle; Editor of the Glasgow Argus; Editor of the Illustrated London News, and Editor of the London Revue. He was also the Special Correspondent of "The Times" at New York from 1862 until 1865. During the Civil War in America his poem "There's a good time coming", when set to music, sold 400,000 copies - surely quite a performance for his day and generation. He was a prolific prose and poetic writer on many topics, literary, biographical, historical and geographical. His autobiography, comprising around 1000 pages, was published in 1886. He died in London on the 24th of December, 1889.
We also have 4 really excellent Poems by Charles MacKay
To My Old Highland Plaid
Strathnaver No More
The Canadian Highlander
My Heart's in the Highlands
And we are also producing "The Scottish Language and its Literary History" By Charles MacKay
You can get to all this at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/mackay/
A Scot in China of Today
------------------------
Got another report in from Ron, A Special Day out in Macau.
You can get to this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter08.htm
His other reports can be found at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../dow/index.htm
Tent Life in Tigerland
----------------------
In which is incorporated "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier" being twelve years reminiscences of a pioneer planter in an Indian Frontier District by James Inglis (1892)
This is the final book we are bringing you following the author around parts of the world in which he lived.
When I wrote "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier," a book which is incorporated with the present volume, I closed it with these words: "If this volume meets the approbation of the public, I may be tempted to draw further on a well-stocked memory, and gossip afresh on Indian life, Indian experiences, and Indian sport," &c. The book was undoubtedly well received. A cheap edition of many thousand copies was struck off by the "Franklin Square Press" in America, and was widely read in the United States; and in Australia regrets have been frequently expressed that the original edition had been exhausted. I am therefore to some extent justified in believing that my Indian gossip has fairly met with the approbation of a large section of the reading public. Hence in the present work I singly resume the thread of my sporting recollections. I have chosen my own way of telling my story and arranging my incidents, so as to add fresh interest, and enlist the attention and the goodwill of my readers as far as possible, and I hope I may have been fairly successful in doing this.
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/tentlife/
Sketches Illustrating the Early Settlement and History of Glengarry in Canada
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
By J. A. MacDonell (1983)
RELATING PRINCIPALLY TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR OF 1775-83, THE WAR OF 1812-14 AND THE REBELLION OF 1837-8, AND THE SERVICES OF THE KING'S ROYAL REGIMENT OF NEW YORK, THE 84 OR ROYAL HIGHLAND EMIGRANT REGIMENT, THE ROYAL CANADIAN VOLUNTEER REGIMENT OF FOOT, THE GLENGARRY FENCIBLE OR BRITISH HIGHLAND REGIMENT, THE GLENGARRY LIGHT INFANTRY REGIMENT, AND THE GLENGARRY MILITIA.
Some terrific accounts of these wars giving much detail that is usually missing in other accounts. I hope you enjoy this book as I did myself and it can be viewed at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/glengarry/
And to finish...
Jimmy Lindsay tells me ...
“When I was about six, we lived on the top floor of a tenement in Tobago Street, and my gran lived in London Road near Glasgow Cross. One day I fell out with my dad, and decided I was going to stay with my gran. So I packed my bag, went all the way down four flights of stairs, out on to the street, when my dad shouted on me from the top floor to come back. I thought he was going to give in to whatever it was I was after, so I went all the way back up the stairs only to meet my dad at the door who handed me half-a-crown and said, ‘Give that to your gran for your keep.”
And that's it for now and hope you all have a good weekend.
Alastair
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