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BRITISH RURAL 

 LIFE AND LABOUR 



"By 



FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH 



jiuthor of the "Romance of 'Peasant Life," etc. 



An indispensable work on the economic status of the agricultural 



labourer in relation to the present increased cost of living. 



A Vade mecam for all students of agrarian economics. 



Quarterly Review. — His picturesque power, his fine sympathy 

 with the peasant and his desire to improve the condition of those 

 strugglers, together with his poetic enthusiasm for nature, everywhere 

 appear. He writes with zest : there is an open-air feeling about his 

 pages, and that is exactly what is wanted in these days to attract 

 people to find in nature some subject of joy that may make the sordid 

 life in towns tolerable. 



Daily Telegraph. — . . . Has long made a special study of the 

 subject with which he deals in this volume — a subject of almost 

 incalculable importance to the country at large. . . . Interesting and 

 suggestive, affording ... a concise survey of the whole field. 



Daily Chronicle. — . . . Has long been known as a charming 

 writer on rural life, and his latest book . . . comes at a very 

 appropriate time. 



Daily News. — . . . He has collected a great deal concerning the 

 life of the rural labourer, which must be of use to whoever wishes to 

 understand the rural problem, which is among the most insistent of 

 national problems. 



Library World. — . . . Has now put us under a debt of gratitude 

 ... an exceedingly valuable book, indispensable to a public or other 

 library collection. 



Graphic. — . . . Mr. Heath with a gargantuan appetite for facts 

 and a thorough grasp of his subject, remains an optimist. ... A 

 complete picture of the conditions under which the peasants of England, 

 Wales, Scotland, and Ireland live and work to-day. 



Irish Times. — . . . Long since made his name as the author of 

 several charming works dealing with peasant life. . . . His powers 

 of descriptive writing are good. ... So skilfully does the author 

 manage to maintain our interest that in many places we are simply 

 getting the details of innumerable Blue Books, carefully sifted, with- 

 out being aware of the fact. 



P. S. KING I SON, Orchard House, Westminster. 



