# Old Country Life

Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924; Bedford, F. D., 1864-1954 [Illustrator]; Masey, Francis Edward, 1861-1912 [Illustrator]; Parkinson, William, active 1883-1895 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48522

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Old+Country+Life+Baring-Gould&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I wonder whether the day will ever dawn on England when our country houses will be as deserted as are those in France and Germany? If so, that will be a sad day for England. I judge from Germany. There, after the Thirty Years' War, the nobles and gentry set-to to build themselves mansions in place of the castles that had been burnt or battered down. In them they lived till the great convulsion that shook Europe and upset existing conditions social as well as political. Napoleon overran Germany, and the nobles and gentry had not recovered their losses during that terrible period before the State took advantage of their condition to transfer the land to the peasantry. This was not done ever...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part III. Biology and Geology. _In preparation.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-country-life-48522/chapters/15/index.md)