West Indian Yarns (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Beke, X.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from West Indian Yarns Reprints from Colonial papers are not as a rule distinguished by originality either in matter or manner. On the contrary if they have any quality which is peculiarly their own, it is an exceptional turn for making the new book old and the interesting dull. West Indian Yams by X. Beke, (Demerara, James Thomson,) is to a considerable extent an exception. X. Beke has not written a possession for ever, nor even a possession for many years, but his yarns are tolerably smart reading, and may be recommended to whomever has them at hand in an idle hour. They are of very various degrees of merit, and one or two short sentimental stories among them are naught. For the most part they are sketches of negro and creole habits. To judge from X. Beke, all the West Indies which is not negro, is Scotch, and if he gives the talk of the former as he gives that of the latter, it must be very good indeed. There is a long-winded genealogical Scotchman who is excellent. So is another Scot who offered to work without pay on the ground that "on a big estate like o this there´s plenty of orra things aboot, and I´d be aye picking up something till ye found it convenient to allot me a sailary." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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