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What to Look for in an Old Church--Early Church Dedications--The Church Porch--The Lights of a Mediaeval Church--Concerning Crosses--Misericordes--Church Gilds--Pews of the Past--The Bishop's Throne--Chantries--Hagioscopes--Some English Shrines--The Church and the Well of St. Chad--Burials in Woollen--Hearse: How a Word has Changed its Meaning--Heart Burials of English Persons--Boy-Bishops--Gleanings from a Parish Chest--A carefully compiled Index.

ILLUSTRATED.

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The Bygone Series.

In this series the following volumes are included, and issued at 7s. 6d. each. Demy 8vo., cloth gilt.

These books have been favourably reviewed in the leading critical journals of England and America.

Carefully written articles by recognised authorities are included on history, castles, abbeys, biography, romantic episodes, legendary lore, traditional stories, curious customs, folk-lore, etc., etc.

The works are illustrated by eminent artists, and by the reproduction of quaint pictures of the olden time.

BYGONE BERKSHIRE, edited by Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A. BYGONE CHESHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE DERBYSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE ESSEX, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE ENGLAND, by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE GLOUCESTERSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE KENT, edited by Richard Stead, B.A. BYGONE LANCASHIRE, edited by Ernest Axon. BYGONE LEICESTERSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE LINCOLNSHIRE , edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE LONDON, by Frederick Ross, F.R.H.S. BYGONE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, by William Stevenson. BYGONE SCOTLAND, by David Maxwell, C.E. BYGONE SOMERSETSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE SOUTHWARK, by Mrs. E. Boger. BYGONE SURREY, edited by George Clinch and S. W. Kershaw, F.S.A. BYGONE WARWICKSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. BYGONE YORKSHIRE, edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S.

Elegantly bound in cloth gilt, Demy 8vo., Price 6s.

BYGONE ENGLAND:

SOCIAL STUDIES IN ITS HISTORIC BYWAYS AND

HIGHWAYS.

:--Under Watch and Ward--Under Lock and Key--The Practice of Pledging--The Minstrel in the Olden Time--Curious Landholding Customs--Curiosities of Slavery in England--Buying and Selling in the Olden Time--Curious Fair Customs--Old Prejudices against Coal--The Sedan Chair--Running Footmen--The Early Days of the Umbrella--A Talk about Tea--Concerning Coffee--The Horn Book--Fighting Cocks in Schools--Bull Baiting--The Badge of Poverty--Patents to wear Nightcaps--A Foolish Fashion--Wedding Notices in the Last Century--Selling Wives--The Story of the Tinder Box--The Invention of Friction matches--Body Snatching--Christmas under the Commonwealth--Under the Mistletoe Bough--A carefully prepared Index.

Elegantly Bound in Cloth Gilt, Demy 8vo., 7s. 6d.

THE LAWYER in HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND HUMOUR,

Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

Introduction--Law Amongst Primitive Races--Ivo, Saint and Lawyer--Benefit of Clergy--Chaucer's Man of Law--The Law in Shakespeare--Revels at the Inns of Court--The Law in Scott--Dickens' Lawyers--Literary Lawyers--The Law in Rhyme--Fighting Lawyers--The Costume of the Law--Curious Circuit Customs--The Last Execution for Witchcraft--Curious Legal Facts, Customs, and Fictions--People in the Pillory--Amenities of the Bench and the Bar--Curiosities of the Witness Box--The Law and Laughter--Lawyers and Eloquence--Sealed and Delivered--A carefully compiled Index.

It will be gathered from the foregoing list of contents that the volume is one of unusual interest and value. The work may be read with pleasure and profit, and merits a place in the reference library.

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THE QUAKER POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

The volume opens with a brief sketch of the Rise of the Society of Friends, and Characteristics of its Poetry, Biographical Notices and Examples of the best Poems of the following poets are given:--

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THE RED, RED WINE,

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Faces on the Queen's Highway,

A Lawyer's Secrets.

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Children of Chance,

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Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain.

Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time.

BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

This work furnishes a carefully prepared account of all the great Frosts occurring in this country from A.D. 134 to 1887. The numerous Frost Fairs on the Thames are fully described, and illustrated with quaint woodcuts, and several old ballads relating to the subject are reproduced. It is tastefully printed and elegantly bound.

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"Quite up to date."--Hull Daily Mail.

STEPPING STONES TO SOCIALISM.

BY DAVID MAXWELL, C.E.

:--In a reasonable and able manner Mr. Maxwell deals with the following topics:--The Popular meaning of the Word Socialism--Lord Salisbury on Socialism--Why There is in Many Minds an Antipathy to Socialism--On Some Socialistic Views of Marriage--The Question of Private Property--The Old Political Economy is not the Way of Salvation--Who is My Neighbour?--Progress, and the Condition of the Labourer--Good and Bad Trade: Precarious Employment--All Popular Movements are Helping on Socialism--Modern Literature in Relation to Social Progress--Pruning the Old Theological Tree--The Churches: Their Socialistic Tendencies--The Future of the Earth in Relation to Human Life--Socialism is Based on Natural Laws of Life--Humanity in the Future--Preludes to Socialism--Forecasts of the Ultimate Form of Society--A Pisgah-top View of the Promised Land.

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The Studies of a Socialist Parson.

The volume consists of sermons and addresses, given mostly at the St. Augustine's Church, Hull. The author in his preface says, "It is the duty of the clergyman to try and understand what Socialism is, and to lead men from the false Socialism to the true."

:--The Working-man, Past and Present: A Historical Review--Whither are we going?--National Righteousness--The True Value of Life--Christian Socialism--Jesus Christ, the True Socialist--Socialism, through Christ or without Him?--The Great Bread Puzzle--Labour Day, May 1, 1892--The People, the Rulers, and the Priests--Friendly Societies--Trades' Unions--The People's Church--On some Social Questions--The Greatest Help to the true Social Life--The Great I Am--God as a present force--Signs of the Times.

The following are selected from a large number of favourable notices:--

Biblical and Shakespearian Characters Compared.

Studies of Life and Literature.

Between the Hebrew Bible and Shakespeare there exists some interesting and instructive points of resemblance, especially in respect of their ways of life and character. No doubt certain inevitable differences also exist between them, but these do not hide the resemblance; rather they serve to set it, so to speak, in bolder relief.

The author in this volume treats of this striking resemblance, under certain phases, between Hebrew Prophecy and Shakespearian Drama.

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