BY THE SAME AUTHOR 



THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY (1874) 



Quarterly Review. "We have placed at the head of this article" (on the agri- 

 cultural labour question) " the names of three books ... of these far the most 

 valuable is a book by Mr. Heath, entitled ' The English Peasantry.'" 



Atheneeum. "Mr. Heath's book is interesting and well written, and the author is 

 entitled to much praise for it." 



Westminster Review. " The whole work is singularly free from dry statistics, and 

 will be welcomed by all classes of readers anxious to be easily informed on the 

 subject of which it treats." 



Pall Mall Gazette. " Mr. Heath has accumulated a large amount of serviceable 

 information, so that his book which is readable throughout will be found 

 also useful for reference." 



Scotsman. "A valuable contribution to the literature of the great question with 

 which it deals. ... It presents a graphic picture of the condition of agricultural 

 labourers." 



Spectator. " Very interesting and very important." 



Guardian. " Mr. Heath is always outspoken, candid, and thoroughly honest. He 

 never perverts his facts." 



Nottingham Daily Guardian. " Its literary merits are decidedly high : its 

 descriptions are unusually vivid and picturesque." 



PEASANT LIFE IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND 



(1880) 



British Quarterly Review. "His picturesque power, his fine sympathy with the 

 peasant, and his desire to improve the condition of these 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. Mr. Heath thus aims at bringing 

 great classes nearer to each other in sympathy at least, and by the bonds of 

 nature-love uniting the workers of the town and the workers of the country, 

 whilst improving the material condition of both ; and he deserves, in such a 

 work, all success and praise." 



Tablet. "His great art is description. He has taken a wide field of observation 

 and arranged a mass of information relative to the habits, occupations, wages, 

 dwellings, wants, vices, and education of the peasantry. Full of valuable hints 

 and lively pictures of peasant life." 



THE "ROMANCE" OF PEASANT LIFE (1872) 



Daily News. " Deserves commendation for its graceful and pleasant style as a very 

 valuable addition to and help in the farm-labourer controversy. " 



Spectator. " Few questions can be more important than the one dealt with in this 

 little book." 



Hour. "From every point of view it is worthy of the tribute of praise that has 

 unhesitatingly been accorded to its merits by the English press." 



John Bull. " It is written with considerable power." 



