ST. JAMES’S GAZETTE:—“We scarcely know which we like best of these charming stories.... Every piece gives us some further glimpse into the ways of birds and makes us feel fonder of them.”
BY DR. ATKINSON.
Fourth Thousand. Extra Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.
FORTY YEARS IN A MOORLAND PARISH. Reminiscences and Researches in Danby-in-Cleveland. By the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, D.C.L., Incumbent of the Parish and Canon of York; Author of “A History of Cleveland,” “A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect.”
NATION:—“Is nothing less than an almost exhaustive monograph upon a typical English parish. Nearly every feature of its life and inanimate nature is described with the sure and interesting touch of a trained and loving observer.... The book is of peculiar value to the student of folk-lore and of English history (especially of the earlier period); while the philologist will find here and there many quaint phrases to be added to the author’s well-known Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect.... Mr. Atkinson has left no side of his parish uninvestigated.”
FIELD:—“We have rarely come across a more delightful and instructive volume of local parochial history. Whether we regard it from its antiquarian, geological, historical, or descriptive point of view, we can accord it nothing but praise. It has not a dull page in it. The manners and customs of the people and their traditions when the author first took possession of his parish are delightful reading.... It is a model of what a local county history should be.”
BRITISH WEEKLY:—“I have not found a more interesting book this year than Dr. Atkinson’s; his careful, faithful chapters on Folk-lore, Antiquities, Manners, and Customs, and the rest, would keep you up far into the night, and the personality they reveal—shy, learned, kind, and wise—is greatly attractive.”
PALL MALL GAZETTE:—“This is an admirable piece of work. Dr. Atkinson has come to his task thoroughly well equipped.... He knows every corner of ‘Danby-in-Cleveland’—for that is the name of the parish which is happy enough to own him for its Rector,—and not only every corner, but the ways and thoughts of its people. Of course there are many parsons, one is glad to think, who have done as much; but then our author is a man of the study as well as of the field. He has studied history in its initial sources, in records, registers, chartularies, muniments, all the lore which is so invaluable as material for history, because it was never intended for that purpose. Thus he illustrates and interprets the present by the past. What is, is explained for him by what has been, as it never can be to the unlearned. What has been, is vivified by what is, in a way that is impossible to the mere student. The active clergyman is a valuable person; valuable also is the learned antiquarian. Combine the two, and you have indeed temperamentum egregium.... Certainly this is one of the best books of the year.”
Edited by Rev. J. G. WOOD.
WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA, the North-West of the United States and the Antilles. By Charles Waterton. Edited by Rev. J. G. Wood. With 100 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 6s.
People’s Edition. With 100 Illustrations. Medium 4to. 6d.