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AN OLD SHROPSHIRE OAK

VOL. I.

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KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., I PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1886

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PREFATORY NOTE.

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THE late Rev. John Wood Warter is perhaps most generally known to the world as the son-in-law of Southey, and editor of his Common-Place Book,' the latter volumes of his 'Doctor,' and selections from his correspondence. His extraordinary acquaintance with literature, strong local attachments, and love of nature and mankind have nevertheless been manifested in the sketches of his Sussex parish published by him under the title of The Seaboard and the Down,' and are displayed on a much more conspicuous scale in the work now presented to the public. So copious is the amount of literary illustration amassed by the author's ceaseless study and indefatigable industry, that, extensive as the work still is, it has been found necessary to make very considerable retrenchments to adapt it in any degree to the exigencies of our busy and restless generation. The reader, it is believed, who can peruse it with the leisure and deliberation which the author brought to its composition, will not miss the enjoyment which attended the latter task.

The work is published by the writer's children. The concluding portion will follow as soon as possible.

October 1885.

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