Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ccasions. It dates from St. riDicbacrs noount 325 a hundred and fifty years ago, and consists of a long red water-mans coat, with yellow facings, with a large brass badge on theleft sleeve stamped with the St. Aubyn arms, a frilled shirt, whitecanvas sea petticoat, and a sort of hunting-cap made of leatherwith the family crest in brass on the front. It will be gathered from the above description that life at Mount must be different in many respects from ordinarylife in a country house. Carriages cannot get nearer than theoppos
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ccasions. It dates from St. riDicbacrs noount 325 a hundred and fifty years ago, and consists of a long red water-mans coat, with yellow facings, with a large brass badge on theleft sleeve stamped with the St. Aubyn arms, a frilled shirt, whitecanvas sea petticoat, and a sort of hunting-cap made of leatherwith the family crest in brass on the front. It will be gathered from the above description that life at Mount must be different in many respects from ordinarylife in a country house. Carriages cannot get nearer than theopposite shore, and it is always necessary to walk up the hill toget to the castle, unless you wish to be carried in a chair kept forthat purpose. Altogether, it is a residence adapted for fine weather, and it isin summer that it should be visited ; unless, indeed, the visitorshould be curious about the force of the wind and sea —a subjectwhich he would have ample opportunities for learning about werehe to pass a day here during a winters gale. Stowe 327. THE NORTH FRONT OF STOWE STOWE BY JOHN ORLANDO HARTES WITHIN three miles of the sleepy little town of Bucking-ham stands the historic palace of Stowe, once thestately home of the Dukes of Buckingham, for a fewyears the residence of the exiled Comte de Paris, and now theproperty of the last Dukes widowed daughter. Baroness Kinloss,who lives at Biddlesden, not far from the seat of her ancestors. Sic transit gloria mundi. These are the words whichnaturally occur to ones mind whilst wandering in those beautifulgardens, dominated by the statue of their designer (Lord Cob-ham), or in the galleries of that stately palace — once the favouredresort of the most distinguished poets and literati of a bygonecentury. Here, with lavish hospitality, brave Cobham enter-tained the witty Chesterfield, the harmonious Pope, the plaintiveHammond, the eloquent Lyttleton, the ingenious Pitt, and theacute West. Christian VII. of Denmark visited Stowe i
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