Literary by-paths in old England . IN OLD ENGLAND have no sense of the fitness of things ! Happilythe vicar holds the sane opinion that a modemmemorial would be wholly out of keeping withGilbert Whites character and work; that this. In Selborne Church time-worn stone is the most seemly cenotaph fora man who lived so near to nature as he. There is no official visitors book at Selborne,the only substitute being a somewhat tatteredvolume kept in the Queens Arms Hotel. Asthe church doors are left constantly open, and asall pilgrims include that building in their tour ofinspection, would it not be
Literary by-paths in old England . IN OLD ENGLAND have no sense of the fitness of things ! Happilythe vicar holds the sane opinion that a modemmemorial would be wholly out of keeping withGilbert Whites character and work; that this. In Selborne Church time-worn stone is the most seemly cenotaph fora man who lived so near to nature as he. There is no official visitors book at Selborne,the only substitute being a somewhat tatteredvolume kept in the Queens Arms Hotel. Asthe church doors are left constantly open, and asall pilgrims include that building in their tour ofinspection, would it not be a good idea to place147 LITERARY BY-PATHS such a book on a desk in the porch ? Manyfamous names are inscribed in the volume keptat the hotel — those of Professor Huxley, LordNapier and Ettrick, and John Burroughs being
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