S Baring Gould: 61 books

The story goes that the devil one day came to the Tamar from the Devon side and stood rubbing his chin and considering. "No," said he, "I won't risk it. Yonder every person is made into a saint, and everything into squab pie. I do not feel qualified for either position."...

The Cornish Saints, The Holy Wells, Cornish Crosses, Cornish Castles, Tin Mining, Launceston, Callington, Camelford, Bude, Saltash, Bodmin, The Two Looes, Fowey, The Fal, Newquay, The Lizard, Smuggling, Penzance, The Land's End, The Scilly Isles

Fifty years ago! Half a century has passed since the writer was a child in the parish where he has laid the scene of this tale. There he had a trusty nurse, and a somewhat romantic story was attached to her life. Faithful, good creature! She was carrying the writer in her arms over a brook by a bridge...

In this "Book of the West" I have not sought to say all that might be said relative to Devon and Cornwall; nor have I attempted to make of it a guide-book. I have rather endeavoured to convey to the visitor to our western peninsula a general idea of what is interesting, and what ought to attract his...

The Fall of the Angels Adam Eve The Fall of Man Adam and Eve after the Fall Cain and Abel The Death of Adam Seth Cainan son of Enos Enoch The Giants Lamech Methuselah Noah Heathen Legends of the Deluge The Planting of the Vine The Sons of Noah Relics of the Ark Certain Descendants of Ham Serug The...

An incredible number of legends exists connected with the personages whose history is given in the Old Testament. The collection now presented to the public must by no means be considered as exhaustive. The compiler has been obliged to limit himself as to the number, it being quite impossible to insert...

Paternal Acres The Manor House The Domestic Hearth Old Furniture Ceilings The Parish Church The Village Inn The Manor Mill The Farmhouse Cottages The Village Doctor Scapegraces Hedges Underground Rights

I. The Port of Cenchræa II. An Ill-Omen III. Corbulo IV. There Is No Star V. The Ship of the Dead VI. I Do Not Know VII. The Face of the Dead VIII. The Sword of the Dead IX. Sheathed X. Ubi Felicitas? XI. The Veils of Ishtar XII. The Fall of the Veils XIII. To Rome! XIV. A Little Supper XV. The Lectisternium...

It is advisable that all should have a clear understanding as to the nature of Conscience, the dangers to which Conscience is liable, the Nature of Sin, and the Effects of Sin. Too many people go on easily from day to day making no spiritual advance, because they do not know what ails their Consciences,...

Old County Families The Last Squire Country Houses The Old Garden The Country Parson The Hunting Parson Country Dances Old Roads Family Portraits The Village Musician The Village Bard Old Servants The Hunt The County Town

WHAT was the world coming to? The world—the centre of it—the Isle of Ely? What aged man in his experience through threescore years and ten had heard of such conduct before? What local poet, whose effusions appeared in the 'Cambridge and Ely Post,' in his wildest flights of imagination,...

The Cévennes are a mountain fringe to the uplifted plateau of Central France, and are less visited by English tourists than any other mountainous district in la belle France. They have been most unjustly neglected. The scenery is singularly varied. The historical associations are rich, but mainly...

A classic book detailing various cliff castles and cave dwellings. It is an extensive account of how they came about and the varied people that are a part of these cultures.