Published Date:
11 November 2009
IN JOHN Buchan's Huntingtower the Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn, on the first night of his walking-tour, lodges in a house where "he supped handsomely off ham and eggs, and dipped into a work called Covenanting Worthies, which garnished a table decorated with sea-shells".
He might have found that book, or one like it, in a good many Scottish homes, for the persecuted Covenanters were the folk-heroes of Presbyterian Scotland, and others besides Robert Louis Stevenson would remember fondly "Where about the graves of the...
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Last Updated:
10 November 2009 7:52 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
Allan Massie
