![]() ![]() In Balwhidder's succinct retrospective summation: "there was at home a great augmentation of prosperity and everything had thriven in a surprising manner somewhat, however, to the detriment of our country simplicity." The "country simplicity" seems more than half medieval the "augmentation of prosperity" brings with it such benefits as literacy, London newspapers, commerce, regular transportation to Glasgow, a cotton mill (not a dark Satanic one, but a place where a decent livelihood may be earned) but also such debits as bankruptcies, American and continental wars, and social fissuring. ![]() ![]() The industrial revolution, with all its good and evil, has found its way to rural Scotland. Purporting to be the reminiscences of Mr Micah Balwhidder, minister of Dalmailing in Ayreshire, Scotland between the years 17, it's the most charming and friendly novel that I've encountered in many a day. Annals of the Parish is another book that I've waited far too long to read. ![]()
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