England

ROYSTON AND ITS SPECIALITIES - ENTERTAINMENT IN A SMALL VILLAGE - ST. IVES - VISITS TO ADJOINING VILLAGES - A FEN-FARM - CAPITAL INVESTED IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AGRICULTURE COMPARED - ALLOTMENTS AND GARDEN TENANTRY - BARLEY GROWN ON OATS.

THE MILLER OF HOUGHTON - AN HOUR IN HUNTINGDON - OLD HOUSES - WHITEWASHED TAPESTRY AND WORKS OF ART - "THE OLD MERMAID" AND "THE GREEN MAN" - TALK WITH AGRICULTURAL LABORERS - THOUGHTS ON THEIR CONDITION, PROSPECTS, AND POSSIBILITIES.

FARM GAME - HALLETT WHEAT - OUNDLE - COUNTRY BRIDGES - FOTHERINGAY CASTLE - QUEEN MARY'S IMPRISONMENT AND EXECUTION - BURGHLEY HOUSE: THE PARK, AVENUES, ELMS, AND OAKS - THOUGHTS ON TREES, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN.

WALK TO OAKHAM - THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SPRING - THE ENGLISH GENTRY - A SPECIMEN OF THE CLASS - MELTON MOWBRAY AND ITS SPECIALITIES - BELVOIR VALE AND ITS BEAUTY - THOUGHTS ON THE BLIND PAINTER.

NOTTINGHAM AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS - NEWSTEAD ABBEY - MANSFIELD - TALK IN A BLACKSMITH'S SHOP - CHESTERFIELD, CHATSWORTH AND HADDON HALL - ARISTOCRATIC CIVILISATION, PRESENT AND PAST.

by Elihu Burritt

SHEFFIELD AND ITS INDIVIDUALITY - THE COUNTRY, ABOVE GROUND AND UNDER GROUND - WAKEFIELD AND LEEDS - WHARF VALE - FARNLEY HALL - HARROGATE; RIPLEY CASTLE; RIPON; CONSERVATISM OF COUNTRY TOWNS - FOUNTAIN ABBEY; STUDLEY PARK - RIEVAULX ABBEY - LORD FAVERSHAM'S SHORT-HORN STOCK.

by Gordon Home

1911

It was on April 24, 1538, that a writ of summons was sent forth in the name of Henry VIII., "To thee, Thomas Becket, some time Archbishop of Canterbury" - who had then been dead for 368 years - "to appear within thirty days to answer to a charge of treason, contumacy, and rebellion against his sovereign lord, King Henry II." But the days passed, and no spirit having stirred the venerated bones of the wonder-working saint, on June 10 judgment was given in favour of Henry, and it was decreed that the Archbishop's bones were to be burnt, and his world-famous shrine overlaid with gold and spark

It would be a mistake to imagine that it solely was due to that bloody deed perpetrated on a certain December afternoon back in Norman times that Canterbury occupies a place of such pre-eminence in English history, for the city was ancient before the days of Thomas of Canterbury; and in this short chapter it is the writer's endeavour to indicate the position of that tragic occurrence in the chronology of the former Kentish capital.