Download or read book The Wessex of Romance (Classic Reprint) written by Wilkinson Sherren and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wessex of Romance If the country that has no history is blessed, then Wessex at the present time is in a state of beatitude. Since this book was first published in 1902, no event which could be included in a full-dress history has taken place within its borders. Still - "along the cool sequester'd vale of life," the people keep "the noiseless tenour of their way." The dialect may be less heard in the villages, where gramaphones acquaint the rustics with accents other than their own. Superstition may be less articulate. The more thoughtful or daring among the younger country folk may be talking about Socialism, or the Higher Criticism, or the advantages of town life. But so far as the present observer is aware, the chief characteristics in the "outstep" places remain the same. Life's common denominator is the land, and all that it connotes. While theorists concern themselves with the Monistic theory of the Universe, or the constitution of the atom, the Wessex folk solve problems of a different kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.