What a shame. It is a mystery to me how these limitations operate. In the US, that Hathi link takes me straight to the file and into the text.

I am just now looking at "page ii," just inside the frontispiece.

"AUTHOR'S FOREWORD.
Winds that cry under the misty stars;
silent glens, and breaking waves with the voices of the Great Sorrows in them;
homely clachans where loyal hearts beat with the hopeless longing of the Celt --
these were my early associations
and it is of them I sing.

Songs of the people of my blood they are.

M. M.
Scotswood Works,
Newcastle-on-Tyne,
1916."

How are the earlier posters on this thread doing, inquiring after Murdoch Maclean? If he spent much of his adult life in and around Newcastle, as that Clan MacRae Newsletter article stated, there ought to be some way of finding out more about him. I've searched as far as I know how online, and hopefully someone else can do better.