Abstract
Two of the narrative poems in this delightful little collection are of more than local interest. One ballad—“The Alchemist of New Hall”—refers to the moated stone mansion of New Hall, where the celebrated Dr. Sacheverell lived at one time. Another poem deals amusingly with a meeting of the Lunar Society, which met in the district in the latter portion of the eighteenth century, and included among its members Erasmus Darwin, Galton, James Watt, Priestley, Wedgwood and Baskerville. To persons familiar with Sutton Coldfield and the neighbourhood, this collection of verses describing in appropriate words and metre some of the stories of “oldest inhabitants” will be read with keen interest; and many others will find pleasure in the quaint ideas contained in this dainty little volume.
Tales of Sutton Town and Chase, with other Tales and some Sketches.
Collected by “Tau.” Pp. 86. (Birmingham: Hudson and Son, 1904.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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Tales of Sutton Town and Chase, with other Tales and some Sketches . Nature 71, 53 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071053b0
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