. Arena magazine - Volume 40. & •eI «? 1 CO 8 V S Digitized by Google .598 Our Literary Section: Best Books of the Holiday Season. A land at once so rich in legend, song andstory, in historic interest and in picturesquebeauty as is England, is full of charm forthoughtful people of imagination and refinedtaste; while for Anglo-Saxons there is scarcelya nook or corner barren of interest. ForBritain, like Greece and Rome, has filled alarge place in the story of Western civilization where his charming presentation makes thesubject glow with new interest. To illustrate,we quote a few passages from
. Arena magazine - Volume 40. & •eI «? 1 CO 8 V S Digitized by Google .598 Our Literary Section: Best Books of the Holiday Season. A land at once so rich in legend, song andstory, in historic interest and in picturesquebeauty as is England, is full of charm forthoughtful people of imagination and refinedtaste; while for Anglo-Saxons there is scarcelya nook or corner barren of interest. ForBritain, like Greece and Rome, has filled alarge place in the story of Western civilization where his charming presentation makes thesubject glow with new interest. To illustrate,we quote a few passages from his chapterentitled The Poets Corner: From Chaucer to Tennyson! Betweenthose two names, separated by five hundredyears, lies the splendid story of English litera-ture as it is summed up in the Poets Corner of. VIEW ON THE KlVElc. Jakob van Through the Gates of the Netherlands, by Mary E. Waller. By permission of Little, Brown & Company. And has splendidly enriched the world by herliterature, scientific research, discoveries, in-ventions and politico-economic ideals. Of late years, owing to the wonderfulincrease in facilities for rapid transportationand accommodations that have made travelcomparatively cheap and free from discom-fort, as well as the multitudinous methods forpictorial reproductions, the reading world toits remotest corners has become familiar withthe chief points of interest in England. But itremained for Mr. Shelley to acquaint thepublic with new fields of interest about whichthe many know little. In his Untrodden English Ways he conductshis readers on a journey replete in charm andrich in information. True, he at times straysinto well-trodden pathways, but here as else- Westminster Abbey. What a shrine for thedevout literary pilgrim! Here he may standbesid
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