# Bonnie Scotland and what we owe her

Author: Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71578

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Bonnie+Scotland+and+what+we+owe+her+Griffis&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

As with so many of my countrymen, the dream floated before the vision dawned. The American who for the first time opens his eyes in Europe is like the newborn babe, whose sight is not yet focused. He sees double. There is continually before him the Old World of his fancy and the Europe of reality. War begins, as in heaven, between the angels--of memory and of hope. The front and the rear of his brain are in conflict. While the glamour of that initial glimpse, that never-recurring moment of first surprise, is before him, he perforce compares and contrasts the ideal and the reality, even to his bewilderment and confusion. Only gradually do the two beholdings coalesce. Yet even during the di...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bonnie-scotland-and-what-we-owe-her-71578/chapters/1/index.md)