The Book is divided into Twenty-eight short Chapters and an Epilogue, in which the historical, physical, social, and religious features of the Carlyle Country are reviewed, and Carlyle traced from place to place, from incident to incident, in his "old familiar birth-land"; the whole showing, once more, what a Great Story is that of Carlyle's ascent from the peasant's cottage to the throne of literature in the Victorian age. The author accepts Carlyle for a modern Prophet; for one of the Great Spiritual Teachers and Leaders of the last century; and Carlyle's prophetic mind is traced in this Work to its original fountain and home in the Burgher Secession, under the Erskines, as it invaded the Carlyle Country in the eighteenth century. The Book is illustrated by nearly one hundred views--places and portraits--all having some direct relation to the Carlyles in the Carlyle Country. A valuable Carlyle Chronology is appended, together with an Index and Map. LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD. _SECOND THOUSAND_ LIFE AND TOPOGRAPHY OF DICKENS THE REAL DICKENS LAND With an Outline of Charles Dickens's Life BY H. SNOWDEN WARD AND CATHARINE WARD AUTHORS OF "SHAKESPEARE'S TOWN AND TIMES." _With a Steel Plate Portrait of Dickens, three Photogravures, and nearly 300 full-page and other Illustrations._ Crown 4to, 10s. 6d. net. _PRESS COMMENTS._ =Mr. Robert Barr=, in =The Idler=.--"Mr. H. Snowden Ward is probably the greatest living authority on Dickens localities." =The Standard.=--"The work has never been done so thoroughly and comprehensively as in 'The Real Dickens Land.'" =The Field.=--"A wonderfully complete, painstaking, and accurate survey of every corner in England which Dickens visited and described." =The Daily Telegraph.=--"A very charmingly produced book.... A harvest of fine photographs, many of which will be of enduring interest. The sketch of Dickens's life and the running commentary on the pictures themselves are excellently done, and are obviously the work of authors genuinely in love with their subject and free from the extravagance of undue hero worship." =The Sunday Special.=--"To our authors we owe the happy thought of preserving, with the aid of their cameras, the real Dickens land as it exists to-day, and by faithfully following the footsteps of the novelist from boyhood up, they have succeeded in giving us an invaluable picture gallery.... The handsome volume forms a distinct addition to Dickens literature." =The Athenæum.=--"The authors have made excellent use of the many investigations by Mr. Kitton and other indefatigable Dickensians; they have themselves made research and taken photographs; and since they write well, their volume is a model of its kind. The illustrations are numerous and excellent; the index is first-rate, and the events of Dickens's life are skilfully woven into the narrative."