. The Cinque Ports; a historical and descriptive record. HASTINGS AND ITS NEIGH-BOURHOOD. DESCK 1 ITIVK. Tup: pathos of Hastings does notlie in its picturesqueness, for ofthat there is Httle in the it has a pathos of its loves old towns where thesunlight lies along mellowed walls—one loves theni for the mellow-. • .. • HASTINGS AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. 43 ness, for the suggestion of lazy age, of leisured times before us, of thingsgone, things that can never be recalled. But Hastings, unless one has there spent pleasant hours, the pleasantidle hours of dalliance, one cannot love
. The Cinque Ports; a historical and descriptive record. HASTINGS AND ITS NEIGH-BOURHOOD. DESCK 1 ITIVK. Tup: pathos of Hastings does notlie in its picturesqueness, for ofthat there is Httle in the it has a pathos of its loves old towns where thesunlight lies along mellowed walls—one loves theni for the mellow-. • .. • HASTINGS AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. 43 ness, for the suggestion of lazy age, of leisured times before us, of thingsgone, things that can never be recalled. But Hastings, unless one has there spent pleasant hours, the pleasantidle hours of dalliance, one cannot love for old sakes sake. It suggestsnothing traditional; its message is of another sort. To appreciate it onemust appreciate the Spirit of the Age—of an Age that cares for nothingbut its own products. As a modern town the place has its excellences—excellences that are, perhaps, none the less real for being conceivably-unsympathetic. It is a little London of the shore—a London less ap-palling, less overwhelming. Its sanitative arrangements are excellent; itsarchitecture uninteresting. It bears on its face to-day almost no tracesof its illustrious past, but to-day one does not live for the Past, andHastings elects to be of to-day. The old High Street of the town has elements of quaintness, andthere are one or two old
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