General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1911Original Publisher: Moffat, Yard and Co.Subjects: Great BritainDrama / ShakespeareLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / ShakespeareTravel / Europe / GeneralTravel / Europe / Great BritainTravel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: II. SALISBURY AND STONEHENGE. A Pleasant course, if you would drift from the Channel coast into the Midlands, is to go from Southampton, by either Winchester or, less directly, by Salisbury, to Basingstoke, and thence northward by Reading and Oxford. Another good way is to loiter along the west of England, taking the track of the Cathedral Towns, and viewing whatever of historic interest can be observed in those places and in the memorable regions that environ them. There should be no inexorable route, for the chief charm of travel is liberty to indulge fancy, and, in England, whichever way you turn you will surely find some peculiar beauty to reward your quest. My path traversed Salisbury, Amesbury, Stonehenge, Glaston- bury, Wells, Cheddar, Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and Evesham, and all the while it seemed to wind through a fairy realm of flowers and dreams. Each part of England has its charming peculiarities, but the general characteristic of English scenery is loveliness. The cities are theworkshops; the rest is a garden of diversified beauty. As you range through the country you gaze on wooded hills glimmering in the distance, dark or bright beneath skies of cloud or sun, -- never one thing long, but changeful, like a capricious girl, whose loveliness is the more bewitching because of her caprice. Green fields, in which cattle are grazing...