NEW WORKS 



PUBLISHED BY 



CAREY & HART, PHILADELPHIA. 



THE 



RURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND. 



BY WILLIAM HOWITT. 



AUTHOR OF " VISITS TO REMARKABLE PLACES." 



FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION. 



In one vol. 8vo. 



Beautifully printed on superfine paper, with a finely engraved Frontispiece. 



Life of the Aristocracy. Pre-eminence of England as a place of Country 

 residence. The delightfulness of its country residences with its Parks, 

 Lawns, Woods and Gardens. Pursuits and Pleasures afforded by Country 

 Life to Ladies. Routine of Country Sports. Scientific Farming; its state, 

 implements, and admirers. Planting; its pleasures. Gardens; pleasures of 

 them. The Roman Style of Gardens. Gardens of Hampton Court. Coun- 

 try Excitements. 



Life of the Agricultural Population. The English Farmer ; his Character 

 and Mode of Life. Enviable Aspect of the Farmer's Abode. The Intellec- 

 tual Grade of the Farmer. Farm Servants and their Modes of Life. The 

 Plodding Farmer and his Wife. The Bondage System of the North of 

 England. Bondage Farms and Farm Yards. Midsummer in the Fields. 

 True Wisdom of Izaak Walton. Delicious Haunts of the Angler at this 

 Season. Summer Birds. 



Picturesque and Moral Features of the Country. Gipsies ; their History 

 and Present State. Gipsy Adventure of Sir Roger de Cover ley .Gipsy 

 Sketches, by Wordsworth, Cowper, Crabbe, and others. Mrs. Sou they 's 

 Account of the New Forest Gipsies. Nooks of the World, or a Peep into the 

 Back Settlements of England. Beauty and Repose of such Places to the 

 Eye. Sketch of a Country Proprietor and his Family. Dinner Scene at the 

 Squire's. Life in the Dales of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Primitive Sim- 

 plicity of the People. Formerly much visited by George Fox. A Friends' 

 Meeting. Rural Occupation and Vehicles. Knitting Parties. Old English 

 Houses. A Delightful Record of such Houses might be Written. Harrt- 

 wicke Flail. Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned there. Annesley Hall and 

 Hucknell. Abode of Mary Chaworth. Fine Old Terrace. Newstead Ab- 

 bey. Picturesque approach to it. Characteristics of Park Scenery. 



Love of the Sublime and Beautiful. Developement of the Love of Coun- 

 try greater in English than Continental Literature. The Influence of the 

 Writings of John Wilson in Blackwood's Magazine, &c. &c. &c. 



The Forests of England. Our Forests among our most Interesting Ob- 

 jects. Scenery of England in the Feudal Ages. Antiquity of our Fo- 



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