Auld Licht Idyls
It's because this book is written for a late nineteenth century Scottish audience and mentality, and I am neither Scottish nor nineteenth ce Hum. It's because this book is written for a late nineteenth century Scottish audience and mentality, and I am neither Scottish nor nineteenth century minded. Now, I love books written during that time period, but unlike Dickens or Collins, this book wasn't written for all time to enjoy, but written for a specific time and place that wasn't likely to grow beyond that specific area or timeframe.
It is immediate in the sense that it is written for the now. And, well, it's not "now" now is it. Oh, there is a lot of charm in this novel of scenes of Thrums, a small Scottish town. There is no plot, only vintettes of small scenes of various natures, all centering around the kirk church in the town. The dialogue, and there is some, is impossible to read.
It's written in Scottish dialect and unless read aloud, with a good understanding of Scottish slang, it's incomprehensable.
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So, three stars, meaning "Hey, if you got the chance, go for it, but don't twist your back doing it" Dec 29, Dale rated it liked it. This is a collection of what were short stories in his early career, generally centered around a small village in Scotland. He himself said the stories, and the book, were not worthy of the binding, and belonged at the bottom of the mill pond.
That being said, it is interesting to see how he began, and I, for one, found the colloquial language intriguing. Some of the stories are poor, but a few are quite entertaining. Being a Barrie fan, I enjoyed the read, if only for the fine descriptions of life in the village and the everyday doings of very ordinary people seen through his wry humorous wit.
Because he was clearly a beginning writer when he produced these, I gave it 3 stars, with room to grow, but they are still engaging. To answer the first question I had and looked up - the Auld Lichts were a religious group, and the stories reveal their position in the community.
Charming selection of stories set in the Scottish town of Thrums. Sort of a companion book to 'A Window in Thrums' by the same author.
Jul 25, Darrell Madis rated it it was amazing. I've read this 4 or 5 times.
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First Edition; First Printing. Binding is tight and pages are clean. Religious Library with two small library stamps. No other marking or writing noted in book. Book is full bound maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.
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Boards are flat with corner square. Very Good with no dust jacket Edition: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, American Publishers Corporation Book. Maroon bound, gilt titling to the spine with ornaments and top edges, gilt motif in the center front cover. He is conscientious in his work, and he is probably wise in his generation.
This volume is a series of sketches of an imperium in imperio, of the life spent by the members of a small and theologically. Barrie, who writes in the character of schoolmaster in the glen of Quharity and Free- Church precentor in Thrums, and opens his volume with a description of his school-house, when isolated from the rest of.
Until twenty years ago, its.
In those days the cup overflowed and left several houses on the top of the hill, where their cold skeletons still stand. The road that climbs from the square, which is Thrums's heart, to the north is so steep and straight, that in a sharp frost children hunker at the top, and are blown down with a roar and a rush on rails of ice. At such times, when viewed from the cemetery, where the traveller from the school-house gets his first glimpse of the little town, Thrums is but two church-steeples, and a dozen red stone patches standing out of a snow-heap.
One of the steeples belongs to the new Free Kirk, and the other to the parish church, both of which the first Auld Licht minister I knew ran past, when he had not time to avoid them by taking a back wynd. Ho was but a pocket edition of a man, who grew two inches after he was called ; but he was so full of the cure of souls, that ho usually scudded to it with his coat- tails quarrelling behind him. Here is the history of the starting of a sect of the kind, as told by Mr. Barrie, without a tincture of exaggeration: The last words he uttered in it were, Follow me to the commonty, all you persons who want to hear the Word of God.
They kept possession, how- ever, of the white manse among the trees. Their kirk has but a cluster of members now, most of them old and done ; but each is equal to a dozen ordinary church-goers, and there have been men and women among them on whom the memory loves to linger. For forty years they have been dying out, but their cold, stiff. In Auld Lichtism, Scotch Dissent touches the bottom, so to speak.
The professors of it, whom, on account of their paucity, Mr.
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Barrie is able to portray with the minute care of a Dutch painter, represent Presbyterian hair-splitting at its finest and dreariest. The present writer, although Thrums is unknown to him, can testify to the truth of the following as to the relations of an ultra-seceder minister to his congregation: Easie Haggart, the maid-servant, reproved him at the breakfast-table. Lang Tammas and Swag Mealmaker crouched for five successive Sabbath nights on his manse wall to catch him smoking and got him.