Highways & Byways in Sussex by E. V. Lucas (beautiful books to read .txt) 📖

Family, 97 Pett, 370 Petworth, 22, 91, 96, 100, 290 Pevensey, 328 Piddinghoe, 257 Pitt, William, 171 Plaistow, 120 Plashetts, 291 Playden, 371 Plumpton, 236 Pluralism in Sussex, 154 Politics, 383 Poly-Olbion, 125 Pope, Alexander, 130, 398 Portslade, 186 Portus Adurni, 186 Pottery, 175, 369 Powlett, Captain, 129, 131 Poynings, 196 Poyntz, Mr., 8 Pressing to death, 114 Preston, 75, 199 Pronunciation, 265 Pulborough, 94 Pun, A costly, 55 Puritan names, 296 Pyecombe, 198 Q Quakers, 316 Queen of the Gipsies, 195 R Racton, 26 Ravens at Petworth, 102 Realf, Richard, 293 Rewell Wood, 72 Richard, Saint, 420 Rickman, "Clio," 248 —— Nathaniel, 316 "Ride to Church, The," a ballad, 286 Ringmer, 284 Roads in Sussex, 290 Robertsbridge, 376 Robertson of Brighton, 419 Robinson, Mr. William, 230 Rocks, 295, 230, 395 Rodmell, 256 Rogate, 16 Roman pavements, 109 Romans, The, 25, 34, 109, 207, 330 Romney, 43 Roper, Squire, 44 Rother, at Midhurst, 20 Rotherfield, 302 Rottingdean, 178 Rowfant, 224 Rudgwick, 119 Rushington, 75 Russell, Dr., 161 Rye, 358, 419 S Sackville College, 227 —— Family, 397 Saddlescombe, 197 St. Leonards Forest, 123 Saint Richard, 420 Salehurst, 378 Salvington, 154 Sawyer, F. E., 413 Saxons, The, 25, 330, 405 Saxonbury, 394 Seaford, 262 Selden, John, 154 Selmeston, 265 Selsey Bill, 57 Selwyn Monument, 326 Serpent of St. Leonards Forest, 126 Shakespeare, 13, 308, 321 Sheep, 283 Sheffield Park, 235 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 115, 418 —— Sir John, 82 —— William, 82 Shirleys, The, 147 Shooting, Knox's description of, 48 Shoreham, New, 186 —— Old, 191 "Shoreham River," a poem, 190 Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, 341 Shulbrede Priory, 11 Shurley Family, 292 Sidlesham, 57 "Silly Sussex," 384 Single lines, 3 Singleton, 44, 46 Slaugham, 217 Slaughter Common, 311 Slinfold, 118 Smith, Charlotte, 110 —— George, 29 —— Horace, 167 —— Sidney, 169, 174 Smoaker, 164 Smuggling, 273, 429 Sompting, 159 "Song against Speed," 269 "Song of Solomon," 414 "Sops and Ale," 320 "South County, The," a poem, 72 Southease, 257 South Harting, 16 Southover, 247 Southwick, 186 Spencer, Herbert, 173 Spershott, James, 36 Springett, Sir Herbert, 286 Stane Street, 40, 119, 120, 431 Stapleton, Thomas, 133 Stapley, Richard, 204 Steyning, 135 Stogton, 52 Stopham, 94 Storrington, 90 Stott, Mr. Edward, 85 Stoughton, 52 Superstitions, 305, 382 "Sussex," a poem, 178 Sussex character, 383, 429, 431, 433 Sussex Daily News, 215 "Sussex Drinking-Song," 152 Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways, 315, 382, 413 "Sussex Nurse, The," 117 Swift, Dean, 375 Swinburne, Mr. A. C., 187, 190, 322 T Tarring, 156, 421 Tattersall, Captain, 27, 169 Taylor, John, 78, 180, 320 Telham Hill, 348 Telscombe, 257 Tennyson, Lord, 12, 418 Thackeray, W. M., 363 Tillington, 102 Tipper, Thomas, 249 Tipteers, 424 Titmice, 226 "To all you Ladies," 398 "To a Seaman," 322 Trelawny, 418 Trespassing, 394 Treyford, 20 Trotton, 12 True and Wonderful, 126 Truffles, 83 "Trugs," 339 Tunbridge Wells, 303, 390 Tupper, Mr., 109 Turner, J. M. W., 355, 381 —— Thomas, 313 Twineham, 204 Twyne, Thomas, 250 U Uckfield, 295 Udimore, 374 Up-Park, 16 V Verdley Castle, 11 Vere, Aubrey de, 12 W Wadhurst, 389 Wagers, 388 Walking craze, 218 Walpole, Horace, 338, 376 Warbleton, 311 Warminghurst, 151 Warnham, 120 Washington, 151 Waylett, John, 399 Webster, Sir Godfrey, 262 Wesley, John, 59, 365 Westbourne, 52 West Grinstead, 130 Westham, 332 West Hoathly, 230 Westons, The, 362 West Wittering, 424 Wheatears, 180 Whistler, Rev. Webster, 342 White, Gilbert, 18, 24, 290, 428 Wickliffe, John, 305 Wilberforce, Bishop, 422 —— William, 141 Wildflowers, 302 Wilfred, Saint, 58 Wilkie, David, 32 William IV., 191 William the Conqueror, 320, 348 Wills, Sussex, 215 Wilmington, 271 Winchelsea, 358 Wiston, 147 Witchcraft, 19 Withyham, 397 Wolstonbury, 199 Woodman, Richard, 253, 311 Woolbeding, 21 Worth, 222 Worthing, 158 Y Young, Arthur, 22, 283 THE END

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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.

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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.

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Yorkshire. By Arthur H. Norway.

With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson.

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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