The Heart of Scotland

THE HEART OF SCOTLAND BY THE SAME AUTHOR BONNIE SCOTLAND CONTAINING 75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY SUTTON PALMER Square Demy 8vo, Cloth, Gilt top Price 20s. net ( Post free, price 20s . 6d. ) THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND CONTAINING 40 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY WILLIAM SMITH, Jun. Square Demy 8vo, Cloth, Gilt top Price 10s. net ( Post free, price 10s. 6d. ) ——— A. AND C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.

PAINTED BY SUTTON PALMER DESCRIBED BY A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF
“Bonnie Scotland” pleased so many readers that it came to be supplemented by another volume dwelling mainly on the western “Highlands and Islands,” which was illustrated in a different style to match their wilder and mistier features. Such an addition gave the author’s likeness of Scotland a somewhat lop-sided effect; and to balance this list he has prepared a third volume dealing with the trimmer and richer, yet not less picturesque region oftenest visited by strangers—that is, Perthshire and its borders. This is shown to be the Heart of Scotland , not only as containing its most famous scenery, but as best blending Highland and Lowland charms, and as having made a focus of the national life and history. Pict and Scot, Celt and Sassenach, king and vassal, mailed baron and plaided chief, cateran and farmer, Jacobite and Hanoverian, gauger and smuggler, Kirk and Secession, here in turn carried on a series of struggles whose incidents should be well known through the Waverley Novels . But these famous romances seem too little known to hasty readers of to-day; and some glimpses of Perthshire’s past life may not prove over-familiar, at least to strangers in a county where the author is at home.

My text is taken from a writer to whom every discourse on our country goes for authority and illustrations.
Among all the provinces in Scotland, if an intelligent stranger were asked to describe the most varied and the most beautiful, it is probable he would name the county of Perth. A native, also, of any other district of Caledonia, though his partialities might lead him to prefer his native county in the first instance, would certainly class that of Perth in the second, and thus give its inhabitants a fair right to plead, that—prejudice apart—Perthshire forms the fairest portion of the northern kingdom.