Bibliography Of Inverness Newspapers And Periodicals

Author : John Noble
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267902040
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Miscellanea Invernessiana written by John Noble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Miscellanea Invernessiana: With a Bibliography of Inverness Newspapers and Periodicals The papers forming the present Miscellanea, though thrown together without any special plan or method, will be read with interest by lnvernessians at home and abroad, as afford ing vivid glimpses of their native spot, its people, and their habits, in times long gone by. With the appended Biblio graphy of Inverness N ewspapers and Periodicals, this volume will also form a not unimportant contribution to the existing, but altogether too meagre and fragmentary, works on local history. Readers familiar with the Inverness of to-day will find here matter for amusing and interesting comparison and contrast between the condition of society now and that which prevailed in what are called the good old times. Great as the changes have been as regards the people and their habits, what Inverness owes to Nature - and it is admitted on all hands that she is liberally endowed in that respect - remains un changed. The poetic tribute to the beauty of the town with which the volume opens is as appropriate now as when it came from the pen of its scholarly author, Dr. Arthur Johnston, of Aberdeen, more than two centuries ago; and every summer brings hundreds and thousands of visitors prepared to re-echo the poet's enthusiastic appreciation of the charms with which Nature and the genius of the place have conspired to grace the town. Nor has Inverness herself lacked for admiring citizens gifted with power to move the muses into rapture over her lordly river and her picturesque and beautiful Islands. In past years she could point to her Andrew Frasers, her J amie Patersons, and her John Macraes, the specimens of whose rhyming effusions in the following pages prove their title to stand side by side with those who have maintained the apostolical succession of her bards down to our own day. 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.