This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...in the Christian churches and cathedrals--the relics and memorials of wounds and misery and hate and death in the temples of "the Prince of Peace"! I have sat in a certain Cathedral and listened to the Gospel of goodwill to all mankind, although, at the entrance, I had to pass dusty, torn, and ghastly ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...in the Christian churches and cathedrals--the relics and memorials of wounds and misery and hate and death in the temples of "the Prince of Peace"! I have sat in a certain Cathedral and listened to the Gospel of goodwill to all mankind, although, at the entrance, I had to pass dusty, torn, and ghastly relics of some of the bloodiest engagements in India and the Peninsula. I yearn for the religion that will account State murder and private murder alike unhallowed, and which will find no room in its fanes for bannered rags in memorial of burning towns, slaughtered men, shrieking widows, and breadless orphans, more than for the gory knives which were wielded by the miscreants and murderers whose infamy is perpetuated in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's. Gordon of Ruthven. LAYS OF ROMANCE & CHIVALRY. By W. STEWART ROSS ("saladin"). Some of these effusions are ol a very remarkable character, atid indicate that Mr. Ross has a genuine vein of poetic inspiration."--Daily Telegraph. "Mr. Stewart Ross shows great power of dramatic expression The work will be welcomed by all who can appreciate poetic energy applied to the interesting and thrilling incidents of the eailier and more romantic periods oi history."--Aberdeen Journal. "Many of the poems are characterised by a spirit and ringing martial vigour that stirs the blood."--Daily Chronicle. "A book of romantic, historic verse, aglow in every page with the energy ci a true and high poetic genius."--Glasgow Weekly Mail. "The author gives ample proof of his varied talents, and his no small share of the minstrel's magic power.--Aberdeen Free Press. "There is much that is excellent in the work Mr. Ross is apparently a...
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