The Little Manx Nation - 1891

The little manx nation by Hall Caine Published by William Heinemann 1891 to the Reverend T. S. Brown, M. A. You see what I send you my lectures at the Royal Institution in the Spring. In making a little book of them I have thought it best to leave them as they were delivered, with all the colloquialisms that are natural to spoken words frankly exposed to cold print. This does not help them to any particular distinction as literature, but perhaps it lends them an ease and familiarity which may partly atone to you and to all good souls for their plentiful lack of dignity. I have said so often that I am not an historian, that I ought to add that whatever history lies hidden here belongs to Train, our only accredited chronicler, and, even at the risk of bowing too low, I must needs protest, in our north country homespun, that he shall have the pudding if he will also take the pudding bag.