Some ©pinions of tbe press. 



" Mr. Garnier is fortunate in his subject. Mr. Kenelm Digby has 

 dealt with its legal aspects ; the late Professor Rogers, Mr. Ashley, 

 Mr. Seebohm, Mr. Cunningham, and a host of writers have written 

 of it as economists ; and the literature of the subject in all its many 

 sides is prodigious. It was a happy thought on the part of Mr. Gamier 

 to focus some of the scattered rays of light. He \vrites, it is important 

 to note, with a living knowledge of the rural England of to-day. He 

 has read much and widely ; he has mastered most of the authorities 

 on the subject. The book grows in value and interest when he 

 touches the realities of rural England, and especially when he endeavours 

 to portray the work-a-day life of a manor or farm in various ages." — 

 Times. 



" The author is a rare and precious combination of practical experi- 

 ence together with scholarship. In the essential importance of full 

 references to authorities Mr. Gamier leaves nothing to be desired. 

 He has cleverly incorporated most things he desired to say in his 

 text ; he gives a suflBcient glossary and an excellent index which goes 

 far towards making his work a professional text-book. With con- 

 siderable success Mr. Gamier has achieved the dif&cult task of clothing 

 the dry bones of technical history with the flesh and blood of vivid 

 pictorial descriptions of nural and domestic life." — Journal of Royal 

 Agricultural Society. 



" He aims at throwing light upon and creating interest in English 

 country customs and social features of several kinds. We do not 

 think that any one has before made a similar attempt on the same 

 scale. His book is one strongly to be recommended to every agri- 

 cultural college and every local authority dealing with agricultural 

 education throughout Great Britain." — Field. 



" Mr. Gamier writes as a land agent who has obtained a competent 

 grasp of the controversies which have been waged in recent years 

 round the knotty problems of the history of early land teniure in this 

 country. The book is undoubtedly an important one, not only because 

 Mr. Gamier is a twofold speciaUst, but because he re-discusses with 

 great acuteness many points which had perhaps too readily been 

 generally assumed to be practically settled." — Glasgow Herald. 



" It meets a want that has long been felt by all classes of agriculturists 

 by providing information on the historical incidents connected with 

 the land in our country, which has never before been so exhaustively 

 placed before the public." — Kentish Post. 



