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Gales, Richard Lawson, 1862-1927.

Old-world essays / R. L. Gales. - London : D. O'Connor, 1921. - 335 p. ; 19 cm.

On peasant Christianity.--The Bible and popular language and tradition.--On the Sibyls.--The lore of the village church.--'The fool of Christ.'--One side of a discussion.--The Benedictines.--Continuity.--A tract and a window.--The way of Mary.--Heathen folk-lore.--Round about Reims.--Cardinal Bembo's villa.--A debate of the old world.--The aspects of things.--History and life.--Poems, bad and good.--Russian fairy tales.--Two Cornish frescoes.--Street games, old and new.--A gossip about surnames.--On the vulgar tongue.--Language mechanical and vital.--Some country sayings.--The sense and nonsense of rhyme.--On getting back into the past.--The sense of the past.--Liber albus.--A childhood in Cockayne.--An Italian journey.

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PR6013.A35 / O4 1921

824.08 / GAO
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