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DEDICATED to the
author's father and mother on their golden wedding day, Mr. Skeat's
slim little volume pleasantly continues in the second generation
Professor Skeat's mingling of studies in history with philological
researches. The son is more an archaeologist than the father and
less a philologist, but he practises both kinds of research in his
series of comprehensive essays on our food, dress and homes,
considered chiefly in the light of the names of things. He has the
philologist's tendency to draw very remote inferences sometimes (for
example, regarding 'haggis'), but his gatherings of little domestic
fact on the evolution of dishes, garments and types of houses are
generally excellent. Notable instances are his treatment of plough,
sickle, coat-tail buttons, the dresser, hall and belfry. The book
recalls the late Sir Arthur Mitchell's way of seeing the past in the
present, and is an informing popular sketch.
CONTENTS
1. The Story of our Food
2. The Story of our Food (continued)
3. The story of our Dress
4. The story of our Dress (continued)
5. The story of our Dress (continued)
6. The Story of our Homes
7. The Story of our Homes (continued)
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