Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . very heart of that oldforest, you find the spot where Rufus fell by the bolt ofTyrell, looking very much as it might look then. Allaround you lie forest and moorland for many a fallow and red deer in thousands herd there as ofold. The squirrels gambol in the oaks above you ; theswine rove in the thick fern and the deep glades of theforest as in a state of nature. The dull tinkle of the 284 Wi
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . very heart of that oldforest, you find the spot where Rufus fell by the bolt ofTyrell, looking very much as it might look then. Allaround you lie forest and moorland for many a fallow and red deer in thousands herd there as ofold. The squirrels gambol in the oaks above you ; theswine rove in the thick fern and the deep glades of theforest as in a state of nature. The dull tinkle of the 284 William and Mary Howitt cattle-bell comes through the wood; and ever and anon,as you wander forward, you catch the blue smoke ofsome hidden abode, curling over the tree-tops; andcome to sylvan bowers and little bough-overshadowedcottages, as primitive as any that the reign of theConc[ueror himself could have shown. What haunts arein these glades for poets I what streams flow throughtheir bosky banks, to soothe at once the ear and eyeenamoured of peace and beauty ! What endless group-ings and colourings for the painter ! At Boldre you mayfind a spot worth seeing, for it is the parsonage once. MARY HOWITT. From a Photograph. inhabited by the venerable William Gilpin—the de-scendant of Barnard Gilpin, the apostle of the north—the author of Forest Scenery ; and near it is the schoolwhich he built and endowed for the poor from the saleof his drawings. Not very distant from this stands therural dwelling of one of Englands truest-hearted women,Caroline Bowles ; and not far off you have the woodsof Nelley Abbey, the Isle of Wiglit, the Solent, and theopen sea. But still move on through tiie fair fields of Dorset andSomerset, to the enchanted land of Devon. If you wantstern grandeur, follow its north-western coast ; if peacefulbeauty, look down into some one of its rich vales, greenas an emerald, and pastured by its herds of red cattle ;if all the summer loveliness of woods and rivers
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