(The Saturday Review.) ‘A highly attractive and thoroughly enjoyable work.’ (The Athenæum.) ‘No one can leave Mrs. Linton’s book without being informed of much that is curious as well as valuable concerning times past. To the Tourist, who knows the Lakes, this book will be welcome, not only for its text, but on account of the charming drawings with which Mr. Linton has done his best—a very happy best—to recall many lovely and famous scenes.’ (The Examiner.) ‘The Book of The Lake Country is, in every picture, visibly the work of an artist who, whether in large plates or in small sketches, endeavours to represent the soul and life of English scenery, under some of its most picturesque and attractive aspects. Mrs. Linton’s book, were it not illustrated as it is, or printed luxuriously, would indeed win attention and credit, as a careful and interesting monograph of one of the most interesting districts in the kingdom.’ (The London Review.) ‘Mrs. Linton’s literary sketches are full of true feeling for the country they portray, and in imparting the writer’s own animation to the reader, bring before his mental vision the glory and the gloom, the majesty and the beauty, the pathos and the power, the loveliness and the desolation, of the mountains, lakes, and moors of Cumberland and Westmoreland. Of Mr. Linton’s designs we cannot speak too highly. They are drawn and engraved with the hand of a master, and bring before our vision, with exquisite truth and feeling, all the rugged beauty of the land they commemorate.’ London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 65 Cornhill. Transcriber’s Notes —Incorporated the errata below (from page ix in the original) into footnotes (and, if possible, changed in situ). —Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication. —Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged. —Corrected page numbers in the index for “Barton Cliffs, geology of” ERRATA. Page 33, line 12, ” 55, ” 19, The derivation of Leap as given in the text is very doubtful. ” 69, ” 1, _for_ which the Bishop of Hippo gives to the canons of his own order, _read_ the injunction of their order. ” 127, ” 25, _for_ Ripley _read_ Winkton. ” 192, ” 8, Rere-mouse is derived from the Old-English _hrere-mus_, from _hreran_ to flutter, literally the fluttering mouse, the exact equivalent of the German Flitter-maus. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The New Forest, by John R. Wise