Transcribed from the 1893 Jarrold & Sons edition by DavidPrice,
‘We cordially recommend Mr. Ritchie’sbook to all who wish to pass an agreeable hour and to learnsomething of the outward actions and inner life of theirpredecessors. It is full of sketches of East Angliancelebrities, happily touched if lightlylimned.’—East Anglian Daily Times.
‘A very entertaining and enjoyable book. Localgossip, a wide range of reading and industrious research, haveenabled the author to enliven his pages with a wide diversity ofsubjects, specially attractive to East Anglians, but also of muchgeneral interest.’—Daily Chronicle.
‘The work is written in a light gossipy style, and byreason both of it and of the variety of persons introduced isinteresting. To a Suffolk or Norfolk man it is, of course,especially attractive. The reader will go through thesepages without being wearied by application. They form apleasant and entertaining contribution to county literature, and“East Anglia” will, we should think, find its way tomany of the east country bookshelves.’—SuffolkChronicle.
‘The book is as readable and attractive a volume oflocal chronicles as could be desired. Though all of ourreaders may not see “eye to eye” with Mr. Ritchie, inregard to political and theological questions, they cannot failto gain much enjoyment from his excellent delineation of old daysin East Anglia.’—Norwich Mercury.
‘“East Anglia” has the merit of not being acompilation, which is more than can be said of the great majorityof books produced in these days to satisfy the revived taste fortopographical gossip. Mr. Ritchie is a Suffolkman—the son of a Nonconformist minister of Wrentham in thatcounty—and he looks back to the old neighbourhood and theold times with an affection which is likely to communicate itselfto its readers. Altogether we can with confidence recommendthis book not only to East Anglians, but to all readers who haveany affinity for works of its class.’—DailyNews.
‘Mr. Ritchie’s book belongs to a class of which wehave none too many, for when well done they illustratecontemporary history in a really charming manner. What withtheir past grandeur, their present progress, their martyrs,patriots, and authors, there is plenty to tell concerning Easterncounties: and one who writes with native enthusiasm is sure tocommand an audience.’—Baptist.
‘Mr. Ritchie, known to the numerous readers of theChristian World as “Christopher Crayon,” hasthe pen of a ready, racy, refreshing writer. He neverwrites a dull line, and never for a moment allows our interest toflag. In the work before us, which is not his first, he is,I should think, at his best. The volume is the outcome ofextensive reading, many rambles over the districts described, andof thoughtful observation. We seem to live and move andhave our being in East Anglia. Its folk-lore, itstraditions, its worthies, its memorable events, are all vividlyand charmingly placed before us, and we close the book sorry thatthere is no more of it, and wondering why it is that works of asimilar kind have not more frequentlyappeared.’—Northern Pioneer.
‘It has yielded us more gratification than any work thatwe have read for a considerable time. The book ought tohave a wide circulation in the Eastern counties, and will notfail to yield profit and delight wherever it finds itsway.’—Essex Telegraph.
‘Mr. Ritchie has here written a most attractive chapterof autobiography. He recalls the scenes of his early days,and whatever was quaint or striking in connection with them, andfinds in his recollections ready pegs on which to hang historicalincident and antiquarian curiosities of many kinds.
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