The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-09-30

and intellectual intercourse, expert
enced like fate under the present
Lord Lansdowne's disreputable great
uncle. Alnwick was very poor
affair compared with the ancestral
castle OF the Percys to-day. Bletby,
from which it was observed that Lord
Chester ed dated but one letter 10 all
his correspondence with his son, was
utterly neglected, and indie ed has only
been completed of late years by the
present Lady Chesterfield. The pal.
ace which the first Earl OF Salisbury
! reared at Hatfield was in sorry plight
when the grandfather of the present
Tory leader in the Lords rehabili,ated
it-and this though it was only twenty
miles from London. Very few of
these houses were allowed, however,
to pass into decay beyond recovery.
They were simply terribly out of re
pair, with their gardens unkempt
and their parks neglected.
With the close of the war in 1915,
and the matchmaking of roads, came
revival of country life among the
grandees. The ''swells' who had
| been fighting took to fox-hunting and
found tnat the Tally-ho and Quicksil-
yer would carry them up to town in
what seemed then extraordinarily
| quick time should frost set in. Then
came the railroad, bringing Northum-
berland and Cornwall within a days
easy journey, and enabling people to fill
their houses with London friends, and
be 10 longer dependent on local "abo-
| rigines." This probably did more than
anything else to make the great land
lords the country-life people they have
been during thereign of Victoria. Never
before has there been in England such
large number of fine places SO regu-
larry occupied for portion of the year.
In fact, when the bad time set in
seven years ago they found the big
houses in such perfect order that even
if they are NEGLECTED for the next
twenty years they can stand it. Proba-
bly, the number of country houses on
grand scale which will be built in the
England of the future will be very
few and far between. In fact, in the
past twenty years they have not num-
bered more than five or six. Mr.. Hol-
ford, the inheritor of q vast CONNER.
cial fortune and owner of a mansion
which taken altogether is the finest in
London, has raised vast edifice on
his estate in Worcestershire. Mr..
ELVES, who enjoys some of the hoa rds
of the celebrated miser of his name-a
miser is pleasant person to these
VINO inherit his money bags, if to no
one else-has created stately man
sion in the same country. Lord Files
mere has built very fine home on
his mid England estate, and Lord
Butte is rearing a palace at Mount
Stuart. These, with one or two fabrics
raised by the iron princes of the
North, are about al the grand seigaeur
creations of later days, but any mum.
Der have been rehabilitated.
Many men are so obviously owe. =
housed that they offer an awful
example deterrent of would-be brick
and mortar makers. Thus the Duke
of Buckingham would probably almost
sacrifice an arm if by so doing he
co I'D only see Stowe well off his hands
and big balance at his bankers in.
stead. His Grace is not rich, he
doesn't care straw for show, Stowe
was Quilted of It's treasures-almost its
sole attraction-under forced sale in
the time of his father it lies in an
ugly country, it is enormous, it is ab-
solutely timetable, and, lastly, he has
another and very desirable home. Can
anything, then, be more of white
elephant than Stowe? And there
must, too, be times, we should fancy,
when the Duke of Devonshirem may have
reflected that five country residences,
four with deer parks, and a vast mansion
in London, are almost more than are
absolutely necessary for the happiness
of a widowed septuagenarian, even
though he can pay for them, while we
can imagine that the Duke of Buc-
cleuch would readily ad NIT that fewer
than his nine residences would suffice
him. Fortunate is Lord Derby with
no hing bot Kno wsley and villa
near London. Many of his noble
brethren burdened with places to keep
up must envy him, particularly in
such times as these.
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