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BOOKS OF THE WEST COUNTRY

CORNISH BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS

Edited, with a Preface, by C. E. Byles. With numerous Illustrations by J. Ley Pethybridge and others, and a special binding designed from oak carvings in the churches of Morwenstow and Welcombe.

Crown 8vo, 5s. net.

This book contains Hawker's complete poetical works, including several pieces previously uncollected.

TIMES.―"'The Quest of the Sangraal is an exquisitely moulded torso… the fragment of his epic gives him a sure place among the poets who are only minor because their supreme moments are few."

ACADEMY.―"His fragment of the 'Sangraal' is worthy to be compared with Tennyson's treatment of the subject.… The excellent popular edition.… Essential to every lover of the Cornish poet."

FOOTPRINTS OF FORMER MEN IN FAR CORNWALL

By ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER

Edited, with an Introduction, by C. E. Byles, and containing numerous Illustrations by J. Ley Pethybridge.

Crown 8vo, 5s. net. [Uniform with "Cornish Ballads."]

LITERARY WORLD.―Reading these sketches, we come upon passages which Ruskin himself might have written. There is in them a rare rich flavour of the author's individuality, something of the atmosphere, the colour, the rugged grandeur of the coast."

WORLD.―"His book is a peculiarly delightful one, full of that indescribable charm which permeates Scott's novels.… The style is inimitable, the anecdotes are quaint and original, and the illustrations are well chosen and excellently reproduced; and a word of praise is due to the tasteful binding."