Howard Pease epub Borderland Studies (Classic Reprint)

Sketches, Children of Boreas and Upon the Advantage of being aS cot, appeared in Mr. Greenwood sA nti-J acobin, Our Village, and With theN orth Countrie Methodies, in theN ational Observer, while of the Tales, The Elder of North Quay is but id name, to use an old Quaker term, ofT heP earl of Hafiz, which appeared in the pages of the Gentleman sM agaziiie. The Author here desires to express his thanks to the editors of the above periodicals for their courteous permission to reprint these articles. The lainder of the volume consists of fresh matter. And now, lest the reader should shrewdly suspect the Author of endeavouring, under a specious title, to fobb off, like the tricksy auctioneer, an odd lot of articles upon his credulity, a few words may perhaps he permitted concerning the Genesis of the book. Finding that the above-mentioned sketches had met with some approbation, it occurred to the Author to increase their number and to add thereto a like quantity ofT ales, which should illustrate the characteristics of theN orth Countrie Folk, previously dealt with realistically, in romantic or idealistic fashion, for he believed that the hard and resolute, rugged and tenacious character of the race was well adapted to this purpose, and at the same time he conceived the project to possess some degree of novelty. The ancient temper of the country that ptrferviduvi itigtnitim to which theN orthumbrian, equally with theS cot, may lay claim, though it may have changed its direction, stilt survives to this present with unabated force. As formerly he was amongst the last energetically to support the jus divinum of theS tuarts, amongst the first as keenly to uphold the modern theory ihe jus divinum of the working man. When Mr. Anthony Hillyard (in Mr.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as