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The life and letters of James Macpherson is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of James Macpherson Among educated Englishmen Macpherson com mouly passes for an audacious impostor Who published his own compositions as the work of an ancient writer, and received due punishment at the hands of Dr. J ohnson. The historians of literature compare him with Chatterton, and brand him as a forger. Even those who re frain from giving him a harsh name treat him with doubt and hesitation. Ah equal obscurity envelops his life and actions and the nature of his work; and the result of ignorance or mis conception is that he has obtained something less than justice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic ...
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