Book of Scottish Story
Historical, Humorous, Legendary, Imaginative
by Standard Scottish Writers (1896)
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The Book of Scottish Story
Historical, Humorous, Legendary, Imaginative
by Standard Scottish Writers Published by Thomas D. Morison, 1896 London, Glasgow.

PREFACE

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.

Whether we account for it on the theory that a larger infusion of the imaginative and romantic elements, characteristic of the Celtic race, gives additional fervour to the Scottish character, or otherwise, it is a fact that in no other community, on the same social level as that of the peasantry and working-classes of Scotland, has this form of literature had so enthusiastic a reception. There can be no doubt that this widely diffused and keen appreciation, by an earnest and self-respecting people, of Stories which are largely graphic delineations of their own national features, has been the chief stimulus to the production of so large and excellent a supply as our literature contains.

The present Selection is made on the principle of giving the best specimens of the most popular authors, with as great a variety, as to subjects, as is compatible with these conditions.

The favourable reception of the issue in the serial form, both by the press and the public, is looked upon by the projectors as an earnest—now that the book is completed—that its further reception will be such as to assure them that they have not fallen short of the aim announced in their prospectus, viz., to form a Collection of Standard Scottish Tales calculated to delight the imagination, to convey interesting information, and to elevate and strengthen the moral principles of the young.

Contents

• The Henpecked Man
  by John Mackay Wilson
• Duncan Campbell
  by James Hogg
• The Lily of Liddisdale
  by Professor Wilson
• The Unlucky Present
  Robert Chambers
• The Sutor of Selkirk: a Remarkably True Story
  from "The Odd Volume"
• Elsie Morrice
  from the Aberdeen Censor
• How I won the Laird's Daughter
  by Daniel Gorrie
• Moss-Side
  by Professor Wilson
• My First Fee
  from the Edin. Literary Journal
• The Kirk of Tullibody
  from Chambers's Edin. Journal
• The Progress of Inconstancy
  from Blackwood's Magazine
• Adam Bell
  by James Hogg
• Mauns' Stane; or, Mine Host's Tale
  from the Aberdeen Censor
• The Freebooter of Lochaber
  by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
• An Hour in the Manse
  Professor Wilson
• The Warden of the Marches
  from the Edin. Literary Gazette
• The Alehouse Party
  from "The Odd Volume"
• Auchindrane; or, the Ayrshire Tragedy
  by Sir Walter Scott
• A Tale of the Plague in Edinburgh
  by Robert Chambers
• The Probationer's First Sermon
  by Daniel Gorrie
• The Crimes of Richard Hawkins
  by Thomas Aird
• The Headstone
  by Professor Wilson
• The Widow's Prediction
  from the Edin. Literary Journal
• The Lady of Waristoun
  from Chambers's Edin. Journal
• A Tale of Pentland
  by James Hogg
• Graysteel: a Traditionary Story of Caithness
  from the John a' Groat Journal
• The Billeted Soldier
  from Eminent Men of Fife
• Bruntfield: a Tale of the Sixteenth Century
  from Chambers's Edin. Journal
• Sunset and Sunrise
  by Professor Wilson
• Miss Peggy Brodie
  by Andrew Picken
• The Death of a Prejudice
  by Thomas Aird
• Anent Auld Grandfather, &c.
  by D. M. Moir
• John Brown; or, the House in the Muir
  from Blackwood's Magazine
• Traditions of the Old Tolbooth of Edinburgh
  by Robert Chambers
• The Lover's Last Visit
  by Professor Wilson
• Mary Queen of Scots and Chatelar
  from Literary Souvenir
• A Night in Duncan M'Gowan's
  from Blackwood's Magazine
• The Miller and the Freebooter
  by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
• Benjie's Christening
  by D. M. Moir
• The Minister's Widow
  by Professor Wilson
• The Battle of the Breeks
  by Robert Macnish
• My Sister Kate
  by Andrew Picken
• Wat the Prophet
  by James Hogg
• The Snow-Storm
  by Professor Wilson
• Love at one Glimpse
  from the Edin. Literary Journal
• Nanny Welsh, the Minister's Maid
  by Daniel Corrie
• Lady Jean: a Tale of the Seventeenth Century
  from Chambers's Edin. Journal
• The Monkey
  by Robert Macnish
• The Ladder-Dancer
  from Blackvood's Magazine
• The Elder's Death-Bed
  by Professor Wilson
• A Highland Feud
  by Sir Walter Scott
• The Resurrection Men
  by D. M. Moir
• Mary Wilson
  from the Aberdeen Censor
• The Laird of Cassway
  by James Hogg
• The Elder's Funeral
  by Professor Wilson
• Macdonald, the Cattle-Riever
  from the Literary Gazette
• The Murder Hole
  from Blackwood's Magazine
• The Miller of Doune: a Traveller's Tale
  from the "The Odd Volume"
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
• The Headless Cumins
  by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
• The Lady Isabel
  from Chambers's Edin. Journal
• The Desperate Duel
  by D. M. Moir
• The Vacant Chair
  by John Mackay Wilson
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Colkittoch
  from the Literary Gazette
• The Covenanters
  by Robert Macnish
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
• The Poor Scholar
  by Professor Wilson
• The Crushed Bonnet
  from the Glasgow Athenaum
• The Villagers of Auchincraig
  by Daniel Corrie
• Perling Joan
  by John Gibson Lockhart
• Janet Smith
  by Professor Thomas Gillespie
• The Unlucky Top Boots
  from Chambers's Edin. Journal
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
• My First and Last Play
  by D. M. Moir
• Jane Malcolm: a Village Tale
  from the Edin. Literary Journal
• Bowed Joseph
  by Robert Chambers
• The Laird of Wineholm
  by James Hogg
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• An Incident in the Great Moray Floods of 1829
  by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
• Charlie Graham, the Tinker
  by George Penny
• The Snowing-up of Strath Lugas
  from Blackwood's Magazine
• Ezra Peden
  by Allan Cunningham
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
• Young Ronald of Morar
  from the Literary Gazette
• The Broken Ring
  from "The Odd Volume"
• A Passage of My Life
  from the Paisley Magazine
• The Court Cave: a Legendary Tale of Fife
  by Drummond Bruce
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Helen Waters: a Tale of the Orkneys
  by John Malcolm
• Legend of the Large Mouth
  by Robert Chambers
• Richard Sinclair; or, the Poor Prodigal
  by Thomas Aird
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
• The Barley Fever—and Rebuke
  by D. M. Moir
• Elphin Irving, the Fairies' Cupbearer
  by Allan Cunningham
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
• Choosing a Minister
  by John Galt
• The Meal Mob
  from the Edin. Literary Journal
• The Flitting
  from "My Grandfather's Farm"
• Ewen of the Little Head
  from the Literary Gazette
• Basil Rolland
  from the Aberdeen Censor
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
• The Last of the Jacobites
  by Robert Chambers
• The Grave-Digger's Tale
  from "The Auld Kirk Yard"
• The Fairy Bride: a Traditionary Tale
  from the Edin. Literary Journal
• The Lost Little Ones
  from "The Odd Volume"
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
• An Orkney Wedding
  by John Malcolm
• The Ghost with the Golden Casket
  by Allan Cunningham
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
• Ranald of the Hens
  from the Literary Gazette
• The French Spy
  by John Galt
• The Minister's Beat
  from Blackwood's Magazine
  • Chapter 1
• A Scottish Gentlewoman of the Last Century
  by Miss Ferrier
• The Faithless Nurse
  from the Edin. Literary Gazette
• Traditions of the Celebrated Major Weir
  by Robert Chambers
• The Windy Yule
  by John Galt
• Grizel Cochrane
  from Chambers's Edin. Journal
• The Fatal Prayer
  from the Literary Melange
• Glenmannow, the Strong Herdsman
  by William Bennet
• My Grandmother's Portrait
  by Daniel Gorrie
• The Baptism
  by Professor Wilson
• The Laird's Wooing
  by John Galt
• Thomas the Rhymer: an Ancient Fairy Legend
  by Sir Walter Scott
• Lachlan More
  from the Literary Gazette
• Alemoor: a Tale of the Fifteenth Century
  from Chambers's Edin. Journal
• Tibby Fowler
  by John Mackay Wilson
• Daniel Cathie, Tobacconist
  from the Edin. Literary Almanac
• The Haunted Ships
  by Allan Cunningham
• A Tale of the Martyrs
  by James Hogg
• The Town Drummer
  by John Galt
• The Awful Night
  by D. M. Moir
• Rose Jamieson
  by Anon.
• A Night at the Herring Fishing
  by Hugh Miller
• The Twin Sisters
  by Alexander Balfour
• Albert Bane: an Incident of the Battle of Culloden
  by Henry Mackenzie
• The Penny Wedding
  by Alexander Campbell
• Peat-Casting Time
  by Thomas Gillespie
• An Adventure with the Press-Gang
  from the Paisley Magazine
• The Laird of Cool's Ghost
  Old Chap Book
• Allan-a-Sop
  by Sir Waller Scott
• John Hetherington's Dream
  from an Old Chap Book
• Black Joe o' the Bow
  by James Smith
• The Fight for the Standard
  by James Paterson
• Catching a Tartar
  by D. M. Moir

• Rab and his Friends
  by Dr John Brown

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