MESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. 



BY DR. ATKINSON. 



Fourth Thousand. Extra Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net. 



FORTY YEARS IN A MOORLAND 



PARISH. Reminiscences and Researches in Danby-in- 

 Cleveland. By the Rev. J. 0. ATKINSON, D.C.L., Incum- 

 bent of the Parish and Canon of York ; Author of " A 

 History of Cleveland," " A Glossary of the Cleveland 

 Dialect." 



NATION: "Is nothing less than an almost exhaustive monograph 

 upon a typical English parish. Nearly every feature of its life and inani- 

 mate nature is described with the sure and interesting touch of a trained 

 and loving observer. . . The book is of peculiar value to the student of 

 folk-lore and of English history (especially of the earlier period) ; while the 

 philologist will find here and there many quaint phrases to be added to 

 the author's well-known Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect. . . Mr. Atkinson 

 has left no side of his parish uniuvestigated." 



FIELD:" We have rarely come across a more delightful and instruc- 

 tive volume of local parochial history. Whether we regard it from its 

 al, 



antiquarian, geological, historical, or descriptive point of view, we can 

 accord it nothing but praise. It has not a dull page in it. The manners 

 and customs of the people and their traditions when the author first took 

 possession of his parish are delightful reading. . . It is a model of what a 

 local county history should be. " 



BRITISH WEEKLY: "I have not found a more interesting book 

 this year than Dr. Atkinson's ; his careful, faithful chapters on Folk-lore, 

 Antiquities, Manners, and Customs, and the rest, would keep you up far 

 into the night, and the personality they reveal shy, learned, kind, and 

 wise is greatly attractive." 



PALL MALL GAZETTE ." This is an admirable piece of work. Dr. 

 Atkinson has come to his task thoroughly well equipped. . . He knows 

 every corner of ' Danby-in-Cleveland ' for that is the name of the parish 

 which is happy enough to own him for its Rector, and not only every 

 corner, but the ways and thoughts of its people. Of course there are 

 many parsons, one is glad to think, who have done as much ; but then 

 our author is a man of the study as well as of the field. He has studied 

 history in its initial sources, in records, registers, chartuhries, muniments, 

 all the lore which is so invaluable as material for history, because it was 

 never intended for that purpose. Thus he illustrates and interprets the 

 present by the past. What is, is explained for him by what has been, as 

 it never can be to the unlearned. What has been, is vivified by what is, 

 in a way that is impossible to the mere student. The active clergyman is 

 a valuable person ; valuable also is the learned antiquarian. Combine the 

 two, and you have indeed temper amentum egregium. . . Certainly this is 

 one of the best books of the year. " 



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