"It is delightful to have them thus collected, for few writers have Dr. Jessopp's gift of painting to the life. His 'Village Life Six Hundred Years Ago' is as graphic and as truthful as one of Richard Jefferies's sketches of to-day. His papers on 'The Black Death' and on 'The Building of a University' are full of teaching; and no one has ever discussed with more intelligent appreciation that mediæval Salvation Army of which Franciscans and Dominicans were the two main corps."—Graphic.
"The glimpses into the social life of the past afforded by these essays will impress all who reflect for a moment upon the marvellous growth of England."—Daily Chronicle.
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN.
Transcriber's note:
Archaic spelling and variations in spelling and hyphenation have been retained except in obvious cases of typographical error.
Page 244: (And all this was done to "Our people" in virtue of the "Amnesty"). The closing quotation mark after 'people' has been supplied by the transcriber.
Page 405: Index item—Englishmen imperfectly understood by Egyptians, 361
in Egypt in 179 , 34.
There appears to be a digit missing after 179.