. Liverpool . of stealthy 128 LIVERPOOL seducer, dribbling out among the fieldsin colourless disorder, entrapping themin the dreariest fashion, without a hintof glamour. Next comes West Derby, agroup of clean-faced cottages standingabout its car-terminus like smockedvillage children gaping prettily at a luridvisitor, its neatly dignified church anddeer-scattered park reflecting the out-burst of ripe, authentic aristocracy thatmakes the country-side beyond so un-expectedly, so exotically, old after West Derby come Knotty Ashand Old Swan : the first, in ones pocketvision of it, a jol
. Liverpool . of stealthy 128 LIVERPOOL seducer, dribbling out among the fieldsin colourless disorder, entrapping themin the dreariest fashion, without a hintof glamour. Next comes West Derby, agroup of clean-faced cottages standingabout its car-terminus like smockedvillage children gaping prettily at a luridvisitor, its neatly dignified church anddeer-scattered park reflecting the out-burst of ripe, authentic aristocracy thatmakes the country-side beyond so un-expectedly, so exotically, old after West Derby come Knotty Ashand Old Swan : the first, in ones pocketvision of it, a jolly stage-setting of tavernswith farm-carts before them, of tiny,twinkling pinafores pouring out of avillage school, of a neat spire (a propertyit doesnt, however, do to investigatetoo closely) rising above a grove of re-alistic trees ; the second—suffering inplaces from a bad attack of the scarlet-fever winch is now ravaging domesticarchitecture—leading to a long surge ofambiguous ways and broken ends that. THE SUBURBS 129 spills out finally among the fields nearWavertree. The country on which itbreaks has qualities of richness ; littlecoils of woodland lie pleasantly amongleaning meadows; and right in the midstof it, like a fleck of pure foam far castby the muddy wave of the town, lie thelawns and gardens of Calderstone, thelatest of Liverpools parks. §9- For parkland proper, however, it isneedful to return to the smoke. Waver-tree lies at the end of the SmithdownRoad bone of the fan. The next bonepierces that Bloomsbury-like district ofhighly respectable squares, and so comesout upon the tail of a long regiment oftrees making a fine effort to live up totheir reputation of being a is Princes Avenue, and PrincesAvenue (familiarity breeding uncon-tempt) is sometimes spoken of in the same breath as Berlins Unter den Lin- 17 130 LIVERPOOL den. But although the conjunction isscarcely wise, this broad way of treesand churches makes a wholly pleasantapproach to th
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