hero, a hero, too, who lived so near the time in which he wrote.
We must allow something for the feelings of a poet who so
passionately loved the freedom for which that hero fought.

BOOKS TO READ

There is, so far as I know, no modernized version of The Bruce,
but there are many books illustrative of the text. In this
connection may be read Robert the Bruce (Children's heroes
Series), by Jeannie Lang; Chapters XXIV to XLIV. Scotland's
Story, by H. E. Marshall; The Lord of the Isles, by Sir Walter
Scott; Castle Dangerous, by Sir Walter Scott; "The Heart of the
Bruce" in Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, by Aytoun. The most
available version of The Bruce in old "Inglis," edited by W. M.
Mackenzie.







Chapter XXVIII A POET KING

The Bruce is a book which is the outcome of the history of the
times. It is the outcome of the quarrels between England and
Scotland, and of Scotland's struggle for freedom. Now we come to
another poet, and another poem which was the outcome of the
quarrels between England and Scotland. For although Scotland's
freedom was never again in danger, the quarrels between the two