It is impossible to mention even a tithe of the names of our better
dialect writers. In Scotland alone there is a large number, some of
the more recent bearing such well-known names as those of R.L.
Stevenson, George Macdonald (Aberdeen), J.M. Barrie (Forfarshire), and
S.R. Crockett (Galloway). Dean Ramsay's humorous _Reminiscences of
Scottish Life and Character_ must not be passed over. For Ireland we
have William Carleton's _Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry_,
and the novels by Lever and Lover. Cumberland has its delightful
stories of _Joe and the Geologist_, and _Bobby Banks' Bodderment_.
Cornwall has its _Tales_, by J.T. Tregellas. Devon can boast of R.D.
Blackmore, Dorset of Hardy and Barnes, and Lincoln of Tennyson. The
literature of Lancashire is vast; it suffices to mention John Collier
(otherwise Tim Bobbin), author of _Tummus and Meary_, Ben Brierley,
John Byrom, J.P. Morris, author of _T' Lebby Beck Dobby_, and Edwin
Waugh, prose author and poet. _Giles's Trip to London_, and the other
sketches by the same author, are highly characteristic of Norfolk.
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