. The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations. ruth in thestory, for it is generally admitted that as Justice Shallow,Shakespeare was holding Sir Thomas Lucy up to ridicule. Shakespeares youthful days may be taken as typicalof those of an average young man in a somewhat free andconvivial age, and he is generally depicted as having beenas fond of the foaming tankard as most of his one occasion, following a carouse, he is represented assay
. The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations. ruth in thestory, for it is generally admitted that as Justice Shallow,Shakespeare was holding Sir Thomas Lucy up to ridicule. Shakespeares youthful days may be taken as typicalof those of an average young man in a somewhat free andconvivial age, and he is generally depicted as having beenas fond of the foaming tankard as most of his one occasion, following a carouse, he is represented assaying that he had drunk at Piping Pebvvorth, dancing Marston,Hanntcd Hillborough, hungry Grafton,Dodging Exhall, papist Wixford,Beggarly Broom, and drunken Bidford, THE SHAKESPEARE COUNTRY. and that he would drink no more. There appears to beinsufficient evidence to accept this rhyming epigram asShakespeares own work, but the villages will all repayvisiting, and some choice specimens of Tudor architecture-may be seen. Warwick is one of the most typically medieval townsin the country, and contains one of the few ancient fortressesof England still in use as a dwelling. Space forbids a. 2m] WARWICK CASTLE. detailed description of Warwick, but the traveller whoseeks a specimen of England as it was four or five hundredyears ago, need look no further, and by way of contrast,there is, within a short ride by street car, the modern,up-to-date, fashionable spa town of Royal Leamington,where at No. 10 Lansdown Circus, Nathaniel Hawthorneprepared for the press his work Transformation, or theMarble Faun. The town is spacious and beautiful andthe climate singularly mild and equable. Kenilworth is apt to appear disappointing to a casualvisitor, and though closer acquaintance dispels the firstitnpriision it must be admitted that interest here centres THIC SHAKESPEARE COUNTRY. round the castle. Sir Walter Scott gives some splendiddescriptions in Kenilworth, but it should be rememberedthat on poin
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