The Land O' the Leal (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Land O' the Leal The outlook in the domain of fiction, whether one takes kindly or not to what is termed "the irruption of the Scot in literature, " is certainly of late brightening. With the coming of writers of the stamp of Barrie, Crockett, and lan Maclaren - to speak of those only who are handing on the traditions of the gallant and wholesome school of Scott - a healthier breath has passed over the novel and saved it from the polluting influences which have recently detracted from its good repute. But whatever school of the novel prevails, there can be little question of the desirableness, in the interests alike of art and of morals, of are turn to what is pure and elevating in the prose fiction of the time. As little question can there be, also, of the attractiveness of contemporary delineations of humble life, with its every-day heroisms, and its consecration of thought and purpose in the well-trodden paths of manly duty and Christian living. What has for a time muddied the pure streams of fiction, and obscured the truths it is calculated to teach, cannot, in the long run, contend successfully against the novel whose purpose is high and whose savor is good. Still less hope is there for the "decadent novel" when such prose idyls come to be written of the type we have in the present volume, from the pen of one of the now many writers of the day whose soulful and intensely human work has interposed to arrest the story-telling art from degeneracy. 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.