Download or read book Studies in Arcady, and Other Essays From a Country Parsonage (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Lawson Gales and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Arcady, and Other Essays From a Country Parsonage It is easy for the superior person to frame an indictment of the literature which finds favour in the eyes of either the lower or lower-middle class. From the point of view of 'culture' it is impossible to imagine, for instance, anything more depressing than the songs sung by the men and their wives at a Harvest Home supper in one of the southern counties. Occasionally one hears a genuine bit of old folk-song, like the song which describes the meeting in the alehouse of the blacksmith, the mason, the tinker and the rest. But by far the greater part of the songs, taken from cheap broadsheets, are marked by an anaemic, lugubrious sentimentality and by nothing else. 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."