The True Story Book (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from The True Story Book The adventures of Prince Charlie are already known, in part, to boys and girls who have read the Tales of a Grand father, for pleasure and not as a school book. But here Mrs. Mccunn has treated of them at greater length and more minutely. The source, here, is in these seven brown octavo volumes, all written in the closest hand, which are a treasure of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. The author is Mr. Forbes, a bishop of the persecuted Episcopalian Church in Scotland. Mr. Forbes collected his information very carefully, closely comparing the narratives of the various actors in the story. Into the boards of his volumes are fastened a scrap of the Prince's tartan waistcoat, a rag from his sprigged calico dress, a bit of his brogues - a twopenny treasure that has been wept and prayed over by the faithful. Nobody, in a book for children, would have the heart to tell the tale of the Prince's later years, of a moody, heart-broken, degraded exile. But, in the hills and the isles, bating a little wilfulness and fool hardiness, and the affair Of the broken punch-bowl, Prince Charles is a model for princes and all men, brave, gay, much enduring, good-humoured, kind, royally courteous, and con siderate, even beyond what may be gathered from this part of the book, while the loyalty of the Highlanders (as in the case of Mackinnon, flogged nearly to death) was proof against tor ture as well as against gold. It is the Sobieski strain, not the Stuart, that we here admire in Prince Charles it is a piety, a loyalty, a goodness like Gordon's that we revere in old Lord Pitsligo in another story.
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