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The Clyde Mystery, by Andrew Lang
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Title: The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
Author: Andrew Lang
Release Date: March 25, 2007 [eBook #20902]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1885 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
The Clyde Mystery A Study in Forgeries and Folklore
By Andrew Lang, M.A. Oxford Hon. Fellow of Merton College, LL.D. St. Andrews D.Litt. Oxford, D.C.L. Durham
Glasgow James MacLehose and Sons Publishers to the University 1905
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
PREFACE
The author would scarcely have penned this little specimen of what Scott called "antiquarian old womanries," but for the interest which he takes in the universally diffused archaic patterns on rocks and stones, which offer a singular proof of the identity of the working of the human mind. Anthropology and folklore are the natural companions and aids of prehistoric and proto-historic archaeology, and suggest remarks which may not be valueless, whatever view we may take of the disputed objects from the Clyde sites.
While only an open verdict on these objects is at present within the competence of science, t