Celtic Mss. In Relation to the Macpherson Fraud: With a Review of Professor Freeman's Criticism of "the Viking Age" (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The strictest search for the originals of Ossian, Dr. Johnson came to the conclusion that as regards Scotland and the pretensions of James Macpherson, there was not in-existence an Erse manuscript a hundred years old. Any attempt therefore, in our day to bring into agreement this literary imposture with the difficulties which -stultify all conception of its genuineness is foredoomed to failure. If, as Mr. Mackinnon alleges, it be, perfectly estab lished that Macpherson carried away from the north-west Highlands several Gaelic manu scrips it is equally certain he never exhibited them to any one capable of forming a judgment as to their authenticity. The collection proper, it would appear, consists of sixty-three separate parcels. How many of these are genuine we shall probably never'know. These are Transcripts of several mss. Or portions of mss. By Mr. Mclachlan, and the Rev. Donald Mackintosh, and collections of Ossianic poetry made by a schoolmaster at Kilmelford, volumes of tales which belonged to Mr. Campbell of Islay,_a collection of Gaelic poetry made by a schoolmaster at Dunkeld, the mss. Whatever these may be, written in The old Gaelic hand 1.

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