THE DARK ENTRY, CANTERBURY, FROM THE GREEN COURT.

"A long narrow vaulted passage, paved with flagstones, vulgarly known by

the name of the Dark Entry."

Frontispiece.]

LITERARYLANDMARKS OF
THE "INGOLDSBY LEGENDS"

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AUTHOR OF THE BRIGHTON ROAD," "" THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD,"
" 'THE DOVER ROAD," "THE BATH ROAD," "THE EXETER ROAD,"
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD," THE NORWICH ROAD,' THE
HOLYHEAD ROAD," THE CAMBRIDGE, ELY, AND KING'S LYNN
ROAD," AND 66 STAGE COACH AND MAIL IN DAYS OF YORE"

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JUN 11944

PREFACE

"INGOLDSBY" has always been of that comparatively small number of authors who command a personal interest and affection. Reading the "LEGENDS" you cannot choose but see that when he sat down, often at the midnight hour, to dash off the fun and frolic that came so readily to his mind, it was a part of himself that appeared upon the page. He did not and could not, when he wrote for publication under a pseudonym, be other than himself, and did not self-consciously draw a veil of style around him and speak, a cloaked figure lacking ordinary human attributes, or as other than a man of the world. He claimed no sacerdotal privileges, and we know, from the published "Life and Letters" by his son, that he was in his life and intimacies, as the Reverend R. H. Barham, the same genial wit and humorist he appeared as

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