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"Once the giants dropped, old bones revived" - there is the rubric for Eric Linklater's new account. There may be no historical foundation for his tale of an excellent war, in the First hundred years A.D., between the giant Furbister and the abominable Od McGammon, his neighbour in the south-west of Scotland; but their quarrel - which provides a history to the engaging love-story of the willful poet Albyn and the delightful Princess Liss - has a genuine enough interest and no small significance inside our equally odd world of today. Would love remedy all our troubles? Love indeed has a vitality that is almost infinite. But man (especially if he is a willful poet) gets the behavior of dissatisfaction, an eyesight that looks critically at love itself. And here, in this tale of some very modern primitives, love makes the going but does not win the contest. A fresh departure for Linklater? Well, he often makes new departures, and here, though he is serious at lower part, his seriousness is beautifully garnished with wit, and sometimes susceptible to humour. The fascination of the storyline bears its outlandishness as lightly as a feather. Eric Linklater (1899-1974) had written scores of books for parents and children. He was also a journalist in India, commander of any wartime fortress in the Orkney Islands, and rector of Aberdeen College or university.