THE SOUTH COUNTRY THE HEART OF ENGLAND SERIES This Series opens with a new work by Mr. EDWARD THOMAS, that curious and enthusiastic explorer of the English Countryside, whose prose style gives him a claim to be regarded as the successor, as he is the biographer, of Richard Jefferies. The Series includes a new edition of Mr. THOMAS’S other work, “The Heart of England,” and Mr. HILAIRE BELLOC’S “The Historic Thames.” These two volumes were originally issued in limited editions at one Guinea net per volume. THE SOUTH COUNTRY. By EDWARD THOMAS. Small crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net. Mr. Thomas in this new book gives his impressions of a year’s wanderings afoot as the seasons change through Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Cornwall. It is a prose-poem of the most beautiful counties in England. THE HEART OF ENGLAND. By EDWARD THOMAS. Small crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net. THE HISTORIC THAMES. By HILAIRE BELLOC, M.P. 3s. 6d. net. _Prospectus of above Books sent post free on application._ J. M. DENT & CO. 29-30, BEDFORD STREET, LONDON, W.C. [Illustration] THE SOUTH COUNTRY [Illustration] _by Edward Thomas_ [Illustration] LONDON _J. M. DENT & CO._ _1909_ RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. “As I can’t leap from cloud to cloud, I want to wander from road to road. That little path there by the clipped hedge goes up to the high road. I want to go up that path and to walk along the high road, and so on and on and on, and to know all kinds of people. Did you ever think that the roads are the only things that are endless; that one can walk on and on, and never be stopped by a gate or a wall? They are the serpent of eternity. I wonder they have never been worshipped. What are the stars beside them? They never meet one another. The roads are the only things that are infinite. They are all endless.” PAUL RUTTLEDGE in _Where there is Nothing_, by W. B. YEATS. TO EDWARD GARNETT CONTENTS