Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
The Highland Bagpipe
“THE CORONACH” (From the Painting by R. R. Mac Ian)
The Highland Bagpipe Its History, Literature, and Music WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE Traditions, Superstitions, and Anecdotes Relating to The Instrument and Its Tunes
BY
W. L. MANSON
The tune with the river in it, the fast river and the courageous, that kens not stop nor tarry, that runs round rock and over fall with a good humour, yet no mood for anything but the way before it.—Neil Munro.
ALEXANDER GARDNER
Publisher to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria
PAISLEY; AND 26 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON
1901
TO
A. DEWAR WILLOCK
EDITOR OF THE
Glasgow Weekly Herald
WHO JUDICIOUSLY BLUE-PENCILLED THE FIRST ISSUE OF THESE ARTICLES AND ENCOURAGED THE WRITER TO GIVE THEM TO THE PUBLIC IN THIS MORE PERMANENT FORM
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