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DEVONSHIRE CHARACTERS AND STRANGE EVENTS
DEVONSHIRE CHARACTERS AND STRANGE EVENTS
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Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure. (Worth every penny!)
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Sabine's Baring-Gould's account of many somewhat ordinary individuals oddly caught-up in somewhat extrordinary lives.
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Various critical notices and advertisements published at the time of the original edition (1908):
Daily News.—"A fascinating series . . . the whole book is rich in human interest. It is by personal touches, drawn from traditions and memories, that the dead men surrounded by the curious panoply of their time, are made to live again in Mr. Baring-Gould's pages."
"Notices of some of the most singular characters and events connected with the County of Devon—a county that has been exceptionally prolific of such. The personages named, and whose lives are given, belong to a lower plane than the great men of the county who have made their mark in history. But the range of characters is really wonderful. The volume is profusely illustrated with reproductions from old and rare prints."
"Having previously dealt with the greater names of Devonshire fame, Mr. Baring-Gould now turns to the sixty or seventy minor characters. There are rascals and worthies, simple citizens and men with slight claim to erudition, sailors and clergymen, doctors and poets. They are called Devonshire "oddities," and the author portrays them with their peculiarities on the outside."
"One of the best pieces of work in the whole book is the article on the Princetown Massacre (1814), concerning which Mr. Baring-Gould marshals the facts and weighs and sifts the evidence of either side with masterly impartiality. The stories of " Caraboo " and of Joanna Southcott are astounding records of human credulity. In reference to the last-named impostor, the writer does not produce one iota of authority for his statement that Joanna Southcott's following is identical with the quite recent sect of New Jezreelites at Chatham, or, rather, New Brompton."
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Sabine's Baring-Gould's account of many somewhat ordinary individuals oddly caught-up in somewhat extrordinary lives.
*****
Various critical notices and advertisements published at the time of the original edition (1908):
Daily News.—"A fascinating series . . . the whole book is rich in human interest. It is by personal touches, drawn from traditions and memories, that the dead men surrounded by the curious panoply of their time, are made to live again in Mr. Baring-Gould's pages."
"Notices of some of the most singular characters and events connected with the County of Devon—a county that has been exceptionally prolific of such. The personages named, and whose lives are given, belong to a lower plane than the great men of the county who have made their mark in history. But the range of characters is really wonderful. The volume is profusely illustrated with reproductions from old and rare prints."
"Having previously dealt with the greater names of Devonshire fame, Mr. Baring-Gould now turns to the sixty or seventy minor characters. There are rascals and worthies, simple citizens and men with slight claim to erudition, sailors and clergymen, doctors and poets. They are called Devonshire "oddities," and the author portrays them with their peculiarities on the outside."
"One of the best pieces of work in the whole book is the article on the Princetown Massacre (1814), concerning which Mr. Baring-Gould marshals the facts and weighs and sifts the evidence of either side with masterly impartiality. The stories of " Caraboo " and of Joanna Southcott are astounding records of human credulity. In reference to the last-named impostor, the writer does not produce one iota of authority for his statement that Joanna Southcott's following is identical with the quite recent sect of New Jezreelites at Chatham, or, rather, New Brompton."
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