Charles G. Harper

Charles G. Harper's Books(4)

The Brighton Road

Literature

5.0

The Brighton Road by Charles G. Harper

Summer Days in Shakespeare Land

Literature

5.0

Summer Days in Shakespeare Land by Charles G. Harper

The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft

Literature

5.0

The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft by Charles G. Harper

The Exeter Road

Adventure

5.0

THIS, the fifth volume in a series of works purporting to tell the Story of the Great Roads, requires but few forewords; but occasion may be taken to say that perhaps greater care has been exercised than in preceding volumes to collect and put on record those anecdotes and floating traditions of the country, which, the gossip of yesterday, will be the history of to-morrow. These are precisely the things that are neglected by the County Historians at one end of the scale of writers, and the compilers of guide-books at the other; and it is just because this gossip and these local anecdotes are generally passed by and often lost that those which are gathered now will become more valuable as time goes on.