Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Literature of the Scottish Gael
Students have often asked me where they could get a suitable book on our Gaelic Literature. I invariably directed them to Professor Magnus Maclean's book on The Literature of the Highlands, to Professor Blackie's book on the Language and Literature of the Highlands of Scotland, to articles in the Encyclopoedia Britannica (11th and Hastings' Encyclopoedia of Religion and Ethics, and recently to a short but valuable paper by the late Dr. George Henderson on the Literature of the Highlands, 1500 in the Home Life of the Highlanders, 1400-1746. They complained of the price of the first of these as being beyond what they could easily afford; and of the others as not being always within their reach. This hand-book is an attempt to meet the demand and circumstances of such students, and the probable wish of others interested in Gaelic literature - literature with which alone it deals. Collectors of rare Gaelic books may also find within its pages something to interest and help them. The three articles which form the book appeared in the Celtic Review, and are now reproduced by the kind permission of the editors.
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