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Excerpt from A History of the Border Counties: Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles
IN composing a History of the Border Counties, a writer''s first inclination is to produce a book made up largely of legend and tradition, and freely interspersed with citations from the Border Ballads. But, fascinat ing as is the material thus presented, so long as Sir Walter Scott''s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,'' with its rich equipment of notes and introduction, is within the reach of every one, a new book of the kind can scarcely be considered necessary; whilst those who seek for a critical study of the ballads will find it ready to their hand in the second volume of the ''history and Poetry of the Scottish Border'' by the late Professor Veitch.1 The aim, then, of the following sketch is rather to bring the history of the Border counties into line with the results of recent historical and antiquarian research.
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IN composing a History of the Border Counties, a writer''s first inclination is to produce a book made up largely of legend and tradition, and freely interspersed with citations from the Border Ballads. But, fascinat ing as is the material thus presented, so long as Sir Walter Scott''s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,'' with its rich equipment of notes and introduction, is within the reach of every one, a new book of the kind can scarcely be considered necessary; whilst those who seek for a critical study of the ballads will find it ready to their hand in the second volume of the ''history and Poetry of the Scottish Border'' by the late Professor Veitch.1 The aim, then, of the following sketch is rather to bring the history of the Border counties into line with the results of recent historical and antiquarian research.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
George Douglas
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ISBN - 9780666137739
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm
Page Count - 504
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Author
George Douglas
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ISBN - 9781332570232
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm
Page Count - 506
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