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 By STEPHEN GRAHAM

A TRAMP'S SKETCHES

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ACADEMY.—"To have read A Tramp's Sketches is to have been lifted into a higher and rarer atmosphere. It is to have been made free, for a few hours at least, of the company of saints and heroes. This much we owe to Mr. Graham, who has added to English Literature a book that, if we mistake not, is destined to endure."

SPECTATOR.—"Like Jefferies' Story of my Heart, but the author is much more occupied with men than Jefferies was. Unlike most books of its kind A Tramp's Sketches has indisputably a genuine passion running through it."

ENGLISH REVIEW.—"It is a delightful book, redolent of the open air, of the night, of the great silences of expanse, and yet full of incident, of real spiritual and material sympathy, both with the 'black earth' and the monks of the monasteries, whose hospitality he enjoyed, and with his fellow-comrades on the road. It is life that interests the author."

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"Descriptions of Nature are apt to become tiresome, but we have not been wearied once in reading these pages; and this is not, we believe, altogether due to Mr. Graham's fine style, his ever-adequate perception of the right word, but because of his sincere and absolute love of Nature in all her moods. Here is no pretence, no make-believe. He writes of the mystery and beauty of the sea, the night, the sunset, the moon, and the stars in words that seem at times to take colour from that which they describe."

Mr. in COUNTRY LIFE.—"They are the notes of a spiritual pilgrim going towards the new Jerusalem. The writer's passionate worship of Beauty, his love of simplicity, his charity, his courage, all these make a strong appeal. He has in him poetry and vision."

Mr. in the SUNDAY CHRONICLE.—"Stephen Graham walks the earth in the garb of beggary, and sees unusual types and meets incredible men and women and analyses his emotions, and worships the Great Spirit in vague fashions; and writes excellently about it all. He wishes there were more like him; and so do I."

DAILY NEWS.—"This robust book, a classic of educated yet wild vagabondage."

LIVERPOOL COURIER.—"Mr. Graham found pleasure, even joy everywhere, and he has an almost inspired faculty for making the reader see things as he sees them."

THE QUEEN.—"The whole book is full of beautiful things."

IRISH TIMES.—"Not a chapter, scarcely a page, which cannot be re-read with profit and delight."

GLASGOW HERALD.—"Told in language that is always adequate and luminous."

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