Historical Tales and Legends of the Highlands

Historical Tales and Legends of the Highlands, by Various Authors


PREFACE

These Tales and Legends were very favourably received by a wide circle of readers, and by the Press generally, as they appeared from month to month in the Celtic Magazine. They are now published in a collected form at the request of many who have previously perused them. I would like to present the public with the names of their authors; but as one of them—the “Norman” and “Torquil” of the Celtic Magazine—objects to have his name made public, although he has written the greater number of them, I must content myself now by taking advantage of this opportunity to thank him, “Mac Iain,” and the others who supplied the Tales and Legends, the merits of which—especially those for which I may be held personally responsible—I propose to leave to the tender mercies of an indulgent public.

ALEX. MACKENZIE.

Celtic Magazine Office, Inverness, 

September 1878.