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ADVERTISEMENTS THE HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS SERIES.Extra crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net each.
London. By Mrs. E. T. Cook.
With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Frederick L. Griggs.
GRAPHIC.—"Mrs. Cook is an admirable guide; she knows her London in and out; she is equally at home in writing of Mayfair and of City courts, and she has a wealth of knowledge relating to literally and historical associations. This, taken together with the fact that she is a writer who could not be dull if she tried, makes her book very delightful reading."
Middlesex. By Walter Jerrold.
With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
EVENING STANDARD.—"Every Londoner who wishes to multiply fourfold the interest of his roamings and excursions should beg, borrow, or buy it without a day's delay."
Hertfordshire. By Herbert W. Tompkins, F.R.Hist.S.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.—"A very charming book.... Will delight equally the artistic and the poetic, the historical and the antiquarian, the picturesque and the sentimental kinds of tourist."
Buckinghamshire. By Clement Shorter.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
WORLD.—"A thoroughly delightful little volume. Mr. Frederick L. Griggs contributes a copious series of delicately graceful illustrations."
Surrey. By Eric Parker.
With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
SPECTATOR.—"A very charming book, both to dip into and to read.... Every page is sown with something rare and curious."
Kent. By Walter Jerrold.
With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"A book over which it is a pleasure to pore, and which everyman of Kent or Kentish Man, or 'foreigner,' should promptly steal, purchase, or borrow.... The illustrations alone are worth twice the money charged for the book."
Sussex. By E. V. Lucas.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.—"A delightful addition to an excellent series.... Mr. Lucas's knowledge of Sussex is shown in so many fields, with so abundant and yet so natural a flow, that one is kept entertained and charmed through every passage of his devious progress."
Berkshire. By James Edmund Vincent.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
DAILY CHRONICLE.—"We consider this book one of the best in an admirable series, and one which should appeal to all who love this kind of literature."
Oxford and the Cotswolds. By H. A. Evans.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"The author is everywhere entertaining and fresh, never allowing his own interest to flag, and thereby retaining the close attention of the reader."
Shakespeare's Country. By the Ven. W. H. Hutton.
With Illustrations by Edmund H. New.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"Mr. Edmund H. New has made a fine book a thing of beauty and a joy for ever by a series of lovely drawings."
Hampshire. By D. H. Moutray Read.
With Illustrations by Arthur B. Connor.
STANDARD.—"In our judgement, as excellent and lively a book as has yet appeared in the Highways and Byways Series."
Dorset. By Sir Frederick Treves.
With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
STANDARD.—"A breezy, delightful, book, full of sidelights on men and manners, and quick in the interpretation of all the half-inarticulate lore of the countryside."
Wiltshire. By Edward Hutton.
With Illustrations by Nelly Erichsen.
DAILY GRAPHIC.—"Replete with enjoyable and informing reading.... Illustrated by exquisite sketches."
Somerset. by Edward Hutton.
With Illustrations by Nelly Erichsen.
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"A book which will set the heart of every West-country-man beating with enthusiasm, and with pride for the goodly heritage into which he has been born as a son of Somerset."
Devon and Cornwall. By Arthur H. Norway.
With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson.
DAILY CHRONICLE.—"So delightful that we would gladly fill columns with extracts were space as elastic as imagination.... The text is excellent; the illustrations of it are even better."
South Wales. By A. G. Bradley.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
SPECTATOR.—"Mr. Bradley has certainly exalted the writing of a combined archæological and descriptive guide-book into a species of literary art. The result is fascinating."
North Wales. By A. G. Bradley.
With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Joseph Pennell.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"To read this fine book makes us eager to visit every hill and every valley that Mr. Bradley describes with such tantalising enthusiasm. It is a work of inspiration, vivid, sparkling, and eloquent—a deep well of pleasure to every lover of Wales."
Cambridge and Ely. By Rev. Edward Conybeare.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
ATHENÆUM.—"A volume which, light and easily read as it is, deserves to rank with the best literature about the county."
East Anglia. By William A. Dutt.
With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
WORLD.—"Of all the fascinating volumes in the 'Highways and Byways' series, none is more pleasant to read.... Mr. Dutt, himself an East Anglian, writes most sympathetically and in picturesque style of the district."
Lincolnshire. By W. F. Rawnsley.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"A splendid record of a storied shire."
Nottinghamshire. By J. B. Firth.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"A book that will rank high in the series which it augments; a book that no student of our Midland topography and of Midland associations should miss."
Northamptonshire and Rutland. By Herbert A. Evans.
With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
TIMES.—"A pleasant, gossiping record.... Mr. Evans is a guide who makes us want to see for ourselves the places he has seen."
Derbyshire. By J. B. Firth.
With Illustrations by Nelly Erichsen.
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"The result is altogether delightful, for 'Derbyshire' is attractive to the reader in his arm-chair as to the tourist wandering amid the scenes Mr. Firth describes so well."
Yorkshire. By Arthur H. Norway.
With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"The wonderful story of Yorkshire's past provides Mr. Norway with a wealth of interesting material, which he has used judiciously and well; each grey ruin of castle and abbey he has re-erected and re-peopled in the most delightful way. A better guide and story teller it would be hard to find."
Lake District. By A. G. Bradley.
With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—"A notable edition—an engaging volume, packed with the best of all possible guidance for tourists. For the most part the artist's work
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