Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-08-31
BY THE gRA,
AN RsaLIsH OONRY IaLAED,

Tho "biggest thing IN English watel'
ing-plaees u brighton, which IL some
times called acknowledgements, and
which in size and sOiidity corresponds
with tbs great metropolis, and u o
worthy aud appropriate "anReK" to II,
II is practically no farther from liel'
gaVia than Corey island IL from Madl-
son square, The fast trains whirl down
to il IN q little more than an hour, at u
cost 10 tho passengers Of from eight
shillings, second class, 10 twelve sill
lIngs, first class, A business man may
leave his Office IN tho city at late hour
ia the afternoon, and have time for din
ner and q walk on the pier or q drive
along the kings road before dark, II u
London repeated on small scale, with
out tho smoke and the slums, and with
q purer atmosphere, with scarcely less
Of q crowd, The shops ara London
shops, the actors ut the tleater belong
to London companies, tho faces aud
dresses have become familiar IN the
Strand on Plccadilly, aud the eOckney
dialect, with its soft drawl and misused
aspIates, IL heard Oiiener than any
other, Like London, too, it, social life
IL sustained by many classes circulating
IN o general current, but never aiilliat
ing ! aud while in one quarter cOrOnet'
arc no rarity, and prince leads society
IN another tho eScnrdOnlst Of u day, OF
the tradesman spending q two'week'l
holiday, smokes his brler or Guilty aud
eats his shrimps without feeling tho dis
parity, aud without realizing thai
brighton was not made especially iOl
tho delectatiOn Of his own class,
Int, though practically incorporated
with II, Brighton Is fifty miles away
from the city, and lying between the
two arc undulating English landscapes
with many shady lanes and ancient vi
Lagos, through which the train HE
when II Il once beyond tho apacion
limits Of London, Under the Box hi
tunnel, which II the scene OF q story b.
Charles Roade, aud has often done ser
vice In fiction over the lofty spans o
the Seven Bridges, through deep an'
iriablo cuttings OF chalk and Limestone
this Ia tho way to London'by'the'Sea
and IN we come nearer to II the land !
hitler, tho foliage less abundant, an
nocks OF sheep are seen fattoning on III,
nutritious grasses OF tho breezy Sout|
Downs.
II IL to 10 remembered that, with tn
exception OF tho cresccnts and square
and intcrsccting streets, there is NJ
break in the three miles OF building
which nbut on tho sea tho houses
shops, baths, and hotels are set togethe
without any unoccupied lots betwcc
them. But to fully comprehend tn
extent of Brighton, one should go on
on the pier, and then the place may b
seen in It's complex aud substantial on
tircty. Compared to IL, the most crowd
cd American waterng.placc - Cone
island, Atlantic city, or Long Branch
Is nothing more than camp. IL
verbally, and not in any iancifulness Q
nomenclature, n city by the sea--a cit
modelled on London, and having tn
structural pcrmancncy OF the metropolis
II il not built on the banks Of the rive,
nor ut the head of gulf, nor in tn
shelter of bay. II is Immediately o
the coast tho chalk cliffs, with thei
grassy SUBMITS, are at either side OF i
and the water is never more than ie
yards from the esplana1e. The solidlt
and compactness OF the frontage {
buildings, and the lights covered wit
houses, arc things which must oxcit
the wonder of any one who sees them fc
the first time.
Brighton is not busy for few sun
mer months only. and then left to til
gales, the fisherman, and the coas
guard. Though the fashionable seaso
does not begin until late in Septembe
or early in October, the excursions,
crowd it from early summer until late
the year. From August to Dccembe
the climate is most salubrious-warn
elastic, and bracing. An east wind keel
visitors away in the first months oil tn
year, and the place is then dcselte
except by mere handful OF people
about one hundred and four thousand
who constitute the resident population