A Tour in Tartan-Land (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Tour in Tartan-Land

We are all acquainted with a delightful work called Lights and Shadows Of Scottish Life, ' wherein the shine and shade Of human existence are depicted with much pathos and power. From the title Of this ad mirable work I had thought to have borrowed a hint; and, as there was but little of the shade Of sorrow in my descriptive reminiscences of scenes, viewed, for the most part, under bright and favourable aspects, and Of which I retain very sunny memories, ' I had intended to have called my lightsome Scotch sketches by the name Of Northern Lights.' However, I finally rejected this title in favour Of that which the book now bears, whereby I have deprived any cynical critic Of the chance Of saying that the name of Northern Lights' was judiciously chosen from the popular designation of a certain meteor, for that the book was but a weak and flickering reflection of the light shed by bright literary orbs on the Highlands and Lowlands, and the land of Scott.' The critic can still say this in substance, but the metaphor will not be so ready to his hand.

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