A. K. H. Boyd (The Recreations of a Country Parson).
I include this because it is a good short paraphrase of the actual story of Pyrrhus and Cineas (Plutarch’s Lives—“Pyrrhus”) and because of the curious absurdity of attributing such philosophic advice to the warrior, Parmenio. This general was the only one of Alexander’s old advisers who urged him to invade Asia! (Plutarch’s Lives—“Alexander”).
Sorrow and care and anxiety may quite well live in Elizabethan cottages, grown over with honeysuckle and jasmine; and very sad eyes may look forth from windows around which roses twine.
A. K. H. Boyd (The Recreations of a Country Parson).
This book had a great vogue, but not sufficient merit to preserve it from oblivion.
CANADIAN BOAT-SONG
From the Gaelic.