The greater part of "Our Journey to the Hebrides" was published originally in HARPER'S MAGAZINE. When it appeared it was severely criticised, and we were taken to task for not discovering in Scotland and the Scotch what has been made the fashion to find there--for not giving second-hand descriptions, which are the stock in trade of Scotch guide-books, whether romantic or real; in a word, for not staying at home and manufacturing our journey in the British Museum. It is gradually dawning upon us that this is what is wanted by the majority of critics. To go to a country and tell what really happened to you--to dare to say, for the information of future cyclers or travellers, that one small pi…
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