Bacheller, Irving, 1859-1950 / 2008-07-26 00:00:00

EBOOK DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES ***


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DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES

BY
IRVING BACHELLER

AUTHOR OF
EBEN HOLDEN
D'RI AND I
CANDLE-LIGHT, Etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY
ARTHUR I. KELLER

1903

To the Memory of my Father


PREFACE
The author has tried to give some history of that uphill road,
traversing the rough back country, through which men of power came
once into the main highways, dusty, timid, foot-sore, and curiously
old-fashioned. Now is the up grade eased by scholarships; young
men labour with the football instead of the buck-saw, and wear high
collars, and travel on a Pullman car, and dally with slang and
cigarettes in the smoking-room. Altogether it is a new Republic,
and only those unborn shall know if it be greater.
The man of learning and odd character and humble life was quite
familiar once, and not only in Hillsborough. Often he was born out
of time, loving ideals of history and too severe with realities
around him. In Darrel it is sought to portray a force held in
fetters and covered with obscurity, yet strong to make its way and
widely felt. His troubles granted, one may easily concede his
character, and his troubles are, mainly, no fanciful invention.
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