A. R. Hope Moncrieff

Preface Derbyshire, like Scotland, has highlands and lowlands to show. At its northern end the Peak region is one of swelling rocky heights and wild moors, sending down rapid streams to water the southern plains, where they are gathered up by the Trent. Their rugged basins present the most famous...

PREFACEThe illustrations in this book speak for themselves. The writer feels it no easy undertaking to strike bass chords in prose that may worthily accompany these high notes of Surrey's fame ; but he has done his best towards pointing out its special charm of varied formation and surface, here...

PREFACEThis volume deals with the prose or verse tales styled Romances, as told in one of the Romance languages, being mainly indeed of French origin. Some of them based upon poetic legends that often seem a distortion of historical events, others more consciously woven to pattern from mingled...