Author: GALES, RICHARD LAWSON (1862-1927)
Title: Old-world essays
Description: London : Daniel O'Connor 1921. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Sun fading to spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 335 pages; Physical description: 335 [1] p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Essays -- Religion -- Christianity -- Culture -- Prose -- Folklore. Contents: On peasant Christianity. --The Bible and popular language and tradition.--On the Sibyls.--The lore of the village church.--'The fool of Christ.' --One side of a discussion. --The Benedictines. --Continuity. --A tract and a window. --The way of Mary. --Heathen folk-lore.--Round about Reims. --Cardinal Bembo's villa. --A debate of the old world. --The aspects of things. --History and life.- -Poems. bad and good. --Russian fairy tales. --Two Cornish frescoes. --Street games. old and new. --A gossip about surnames. --On the vulgar tongue. --Language mechanical and vital.--Some country sayings.--The sense and nonsense of rhyme. --On getting back into the past. --The sense of the past. --Liber albus. --A childhood in Cockayne. --An Italian journey. by R. L. Gale.Weight in Kg appr.:

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