Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st October 1880, Edition 1 of 1, Page 841

: DsnsjL 3 B : L . " 3 r szeulxdi t . PEASANT % LIFE IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND . BY fRANCIS © EORGE JH EATH , Editor of the New Edition of GilpirCs c Forest Scenery ? Author of * The English Peasantry ? l The Fern Paradise ? i Sylvan Spring ? - The Fern World ? c Our Woodland Trees ? * Burnham Beeches ? 1 Trees and Ferns ? < Jr . < $ * c . PART I . A GLANCE AT THE PAST . The Western Country—The West Country Peasant—His Dwelling— His Wife and Children—Work and Earnings , Food , Drink , and Dress—Education and Morals . PART II . PEASANT LIFE IN 1872 . A Sunday with Canon Girdlestone—From the Plough to Prosperity—The Vale of Wrington—An Incentive to Education—Cider Truck—Poverty and Riches—Wages and Benevolence—Allotments—The Vale of Taunton—Modern Cowherds —A Family of Twelve—The ' Privileges ' of the Peasant—A Short Story of Peasant Life—The West of England Sanatorium . PART III . AMONG THE PEASANTRY IN 1873 . Cottage Homes—Pigland—Women Labourers—Exmoor . PART IV . ENGLISH PEASANTS OF TO-DAY . Lights and Shadows—Two Life Histories—Present Money Earnings—Privileges —Cottages and Sanitation—A Model Village—¦ ' Potatoe Ground '—Dress of the Period—Living and * Credit' —Halberton in 1880—A Pig Insurance Society—Superstition and Folk-Lore—Amusements—Poor Farming and * Depression 'Depopulation—Moral , Intellectual , and Material Progress . < # * ? # The Author trust ** that , so far at least a « representative fketa are concerned , labourer this volume of the may Western be considered districts to of furnish England something during the like last a half life -century history . of the peasant Extract from Introduction . London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE , < fc RIVINGTON , CrowiTBuUdings , 188 Fleet Street , E . C . ( 486 ) ft ^»^ w ^ M ^__ ^

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