HEROES OR SCOUNDRELS?
"Challenge to' the Highlander," by Dr. A. A. W. Ramsay (John Murray), challenges the sentimental conception of the Highlander which is popular today—as poet, dreamer, and idealist. The author contends that it is the Lowlands that have always' given Scotland her great poets and her great idealists, and that the Highlander of history is a very different figure —selfish and materialistic, with his mind set on the cruder realities of life. But there' is no abstract argument in the book—the author presents her case in narrative form: the life-stories of six representative men, three Highlanders and three Lowlanders; and from these stories, tragic, comic, or heroic, ■ briefly and vividly told, readers may judge for themselves what is the truth.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 22
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122HEROES OR SCOUNDRELS? Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 22
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