Tales, essays, and sketches
By: by the late Robert Macnish ... With the author's life, by his friend, D.M. Moir ...
Publisher: H.G. Bohn
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: First edition published at Edinburgh, 1837, under title: The modern Pythagorean; a series of tales, essays, and sketches.
Table of contents: title: I. Life.; title: II. Tales: The metempsychosis. The man with the nose. The confessions of an unexecuted feminicide. The barber of Gottingen. Colonel O'Shaughnessy. Colonel O'Shaughnessy in India. Who can it be? The man with the mouth. The wig. An execution in Paris. The man-mountain. Singular passages in my own life. Punch and Judy. The red man. Who murdered Begbie? a stage-coach romance. Terence O'Flaherty. The Covenanters, a Scottish traditionary tale. The loves of the learned. A vision of Robert the Bruce. Death and the fisherman. A night near Monte Video. Notes of a journey from Paris to Ostend.