Walter L. Faurot was the author of the first edition of this book--one of the earliest books on traditional whittling--published in the 1930s.
'..the values of the essays themselves is apparent...Some are major contributions to their particular fields, such as the sympathetic and still densely suggestive British Academy lecture on the nature of Middle English alliterative poetry, a landmark in the serious treatment of its subject.' DAVID J. WILLIAMS, University of Reading. MLR, 1987, 4.