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Title: In a Green Shade
A Country Commentary

Author: Maurice Hewlett

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Language: English

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In a Green Shade.

A Country Commentary.

By Maurice Hewlett.

London
G. Bell and Sons
1920

G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
YORK HOUSE, PORTUGAL STREET, LONDON, W.C. 2.

NOTE

All of these Essays, with two exceptions, have been published
periodically. All, without exception, have been revised and corrected.
My thanks for hospitality afforded to them _en route_ are due to the
_Westminster Gazette_, _Daily News_, and _Daily Chronicle_; to the
_New Statesman_; to the _Cornhill Magazine_, _Fortnightly Review_,
_Anglo-French Review_, and _London Mercury_.

BROADCHALKE, _22 Jan. 1920._

CONTENTS

PAGE
NOTE v
ROUND ABOUT A PREFACE ix
CHANGE AND THE PEASANTRY 1
A HERMITAGE IN SIGHT 6
DORIAN MODES 11
CHURCH AND THE MAN 16
BESSY MOORE 20
THE MAIDS 31
POETRY AND THE MODE 35
POLYOLBION 45
THE WELTER 50
CATNACHERY 54
LANDNAMA 60
"WORKS AND DAYS" 64
THE ENGLISH HESIOD 72
FLOWER OF THE FIELD 83
UNDER THE HARVEST MOON 87
_LA PETITE PERSONNE_ 91
A FOOL OF QUALITY 99
SHERIDAN AS MANIAC 105
A FOOTNOTE TO COLERIDGE 119
THE CRYSTAL VASE 132
_NOCTES AMBROSIANAE_ 147
SKELETONS AT A FEAST 151
A COMMENTARY UPON BUTLER 156
THE COMMEMORATION 164
THE QUAKER EIRENICON 168

IN A GREEN SHADE

ROUND ABOUT A PREFACE

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