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CELTIC MSS.
IN RELATION TO
THE MACPHERSON FRAUD;
WITH A REVIEW OF
PROFESSOR FREEMAN’S CRITICISM
OF
“The Viking Age,”

BY
THE AUTHOR OF

“CELTICISM A MYTH.”

“I thought your book an imposture. I think it an imposture still.”—Dr. Johnson.

“The purposeless tortuosities of Celtic falsehood, and its most subtilemanifestations.”—Weekly Scotsman.

“The received accounts of the Saxon immigration, and subsequentfortunes, and ultimate settlement, are devoid of historical truth inevery detail.”—J. M. Kemble.

“And, armed in proof, the gauntlet cast at once
To Scotch marauder, and to Southern dunce.”—Byron.

LONDON:
E. W. ALLEN, 4, AVE MARIA LANE.

MDCCCXC.

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LONDON
PRINTED AT THE COURTS OF JUSTICE PRINTING WORKS
BY DIPROSE, BATEMAN AND CO.

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PREFACE.

That portion of this tractate which relates toCeltic manuscripts and the doings of Macpherson,was transmitted to the Scotsman newspaper, inreply to an article by Professor Mackinnon whichappeared in that journal. My communicationwas however returned by the editor on the pleathat he could not find room for its insertion.It was perhaps too much to expect that a journalowned by one of the secretaries of a Society, whichhad engaged the services of the Celtic Professorat Oxford, to uphold what I call the Celticmyth, should open its columns to one inimical toMacpherson, and utterly sceptical in regard tohis pretended translation. Mr. Mackinnon’senumeration seems a vindication of the antiquityof Celtic MSS. in general, and was no doubt alsoprojected “as a basis for more extended collaboration.”

It occurred to me that my remarks on theOssian MSS. might with advantage be incorporatedwith some notice of Professor Freeman’s[Pg iv]criticism of “The Viking Age,” both tendingin the same direction. One wipes out the Celtsas the pioneers of civilization, the other explodesthe Saxons as a race distinct from the Scandinavians.With this in view I have been aimingfor some time past, to put my thoughts in trainfor publication, but want of time has alwaysstood in the way.

J. C. ROGER.

Friars Watch,
Walthamstow.
October, 1890.

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CELTIC MSS.
IN RELATION TO
THE MACPHERSON FRAUD, &c.

My attention was lately directed to a lengthyarticle that appeared in The Scotsman of the12th of last November, bearing the initials ofMr. M

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