The Gaelic Bards : and Original Poems
GÀEIvICW zn. THE GAELIC BAUDS ORIGINAL POEMS. a%|) ^M^rmoi^^ix;^^^^ The Gtaelic Bards, OEIGINAL POEMS, THOMAS PATTISON. EDITED, WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND NOTES, BY THE Rev. JOHN GEORGE MAONEILL, CAWDOR. SECOND EDITION GLASGOW: ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, PRINTER & PUBLISHER, 62 ARGYLE STREET. 18 90. ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, PRINTER AND PUBLISHER, ARGYLK STREET, GLASGOW. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The First Edition of ''The Gaelic Bards" having been exhausted^ a new edition was called for. The work, in its two sections of Modem Gaelic Bards, and of Ancient Gaelic Bards is practically unchanged. A few vague and uninteresting original poems have been omitted, but other characteristic and popular pieces, such as " Captain Gorrie's Ride," "The Praise of Islay," and "Haste from the Window," have been inserted. Some distinct additions have been made to the present edition, in the shape of a biographical sketch, and appended illustrative notes by the Editor. A portrait of the Author is also given. In introducing the Second Edition to the public, the Publisher and the Editor are confident that it will be welcomed by their brother Celts at home and abroad, as an acceptable contribution to the ever increasing important department of Celtic Literature. The labour bestowed on this Edition by the Publisher and the Editor, was ungrudgingly given in the midst of the whirl and worry of daily duty. — PREFATORY NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION. Thomas Pattison was a native of Islay, He was designed for the Church, and after receiving a fair elementary education at the Parish School of Bow- more, was sent to the University of Edinburgh, and afterwards to that of Glasgow.
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