WELSH COUNTRY CHARACTERS. By D. Parry-Jones.

1952 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp174. B/w illustrations by Lynto Lamb. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

This book is essentially a series of interlinked essays discussing the author's experience of and research into, Welsh rural society in the period immediately before the introduction of the motor car and farm machinery. "Unless somebody is found to describe the folk and the way of life of this rapidly disappearing age an interesting chapter in the life of our people will be left unrecorded - that is what I have tried to do." Chapters include: Introduction; From an upland road; Stories of animals; Old Welsh preachers; Down in the cwm; Of farmers; In the hayfields; The ghost in the quarry; the gamekeeper - one of the 'six and two'; The subtle persistence of ancient ways; Erectors of megalithic monuments; 'With his gold watch and chain'; Jhon Jones, tramp; the fisherman's story; The thoughts of a countryman.