HAIL CALEDONIA
THE GAEL FARES FORTH. By
N.
R.
McKenzie
Whitcombe and Tombs,
Ltd.
T is difficult to review a book that has already been reviewed very competently by.a Prime Minister. But perhaps it is unnecessary. Mr. Fraser’s foreword not only places the praise where it belongs, but leaves the picture in the setting in which it must be studied; and no review can do more than that. But it may be worth adding that while this is technically a second edition, it is in fact a new book. To begin with, a whole army, of workers and camp-followers have turned all the material over a second time and sifted and weighed it. Not much has been dropped out, but a good deal has been added, and everything has been re-arranged and re-displayed, The first edition calied for courage as well as for some perfervidness in the reader. The second lures him on. From dustjacket to index it has been designed to extract fifteen shillings from him with a minimum of pain; and it succeeds. Until
| he examines it he will remain shy, even if his ancestors came with McLeod. Put it into his hands and bang at once goes his pound. So there can be no risk that the sales will drag once a few copies get among the clansmen; but there may be a risk in recalling to readers with such blood in their veins that a house seventy years ago could be built for seventy pounds-and built to keep out anything but theological controversy. One fact that may be recalled with complete safety, however, and to our edification, is the influence on history of the dissenter. If. Norman McLeod had been meek and mild, Nova Scotia would never have seen him; and if he had not been fighting the Labrador gales for 30 years when his long-lost son wrote from South Australia, New Zealand would ‘never have seen him, or any of the McKays and McDonalds and McLennans and McMillans who came with him. What they have done in ninety years, aided and abetted, of course, by the, Munros and Murdochs and Frasers and Finlaysons and two or three hundred others for whose names this page has no space, is now on record for all time-and costs less than three ties or twelve handkerchiefs, sa
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 177, 13 November 1942, Page 5
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