The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-30

fan nninttes' walk upon the mis- anu
vo,, are in rural England as the poets sing
efi, Frnit trees shake their blossoms or
! tboir frnit in showers upon the grass in
LA nools and corners of struggling ham
lnss zach farmhouse and cotter's cottage
sta,ds IN its own orchard, brilliant with
,be arrays Of pink and white, or with balls
- r,sset and gold, according TO the season.
/ Ch.osncbes and robins are among the
,nooses in all these orchards. Blackolrds
o,d thrushes are everywhere Ia the thick
sbrrbberies Of the gardens and IN the
tangled hedgerows and coppices. Wrens,
! bed0e warblers and other tiny birds are IN
i the matted grasses, by the hedgerows and
/ nv the shaded runnels in the bitches.
| Everywhere, too, are tte irregular
sbaned meadows, with their fantastic
/ hooks and corners, and their sweet rich
/ berbage where dairy cows and cattle
feeding up for the butcher pass their
tranquil lives literally in clover. There is
always sure TO be pretty pool under the
Chimp Of trees at one corner, or shailo"
stream ripping gently along at one side'
singing it's way 10 the valleys from inc
hills ,
Not eight miles away are the spires ana
towers OF a quaint old cathedral CITY. ms
js ancient Worcester, that earned us tltle
Of the faithful city" in the time OF the
commonwealth in so valiantly holding out
AGAINST Cromwell for the king. Young
Charles watched the last great battle
from the cathedral tower until the oiti-
zens vainly beating back the invaders,
gave him time TO make his escape. Cronn-
we'll revenged the plucky resistance not
so like a butcher rs at Drogheda, but
enough TO leave the fair old city almost
silent and deserted for years, while only
the fowls Of the air gathered in its rootess
and windowless cathedral.
In Worcester the old and the new couch
everywhere. Most interesting among that
which is old are two Of the most note
worthy monuments in England within the
cathedral One is that Of King John, the
earliest royal efigy in any OF the English
churches. The other IS the monument 10
Bishop Hough, Of Magdalen college celeb
rity. whom James II succeeded in making
the English thoroughly remember.
This mineling Of the old and new is
notably characteristic of Worcester. There
are busting streets with broad payemeBts
and busy river wharyes. There are noble
bridges, big warehouses and bigger manu-
factories with tall chimneys, and long rows
of brick cottages for workmen, which may
possess comfort, but which have hideous
sameness and dreariness about them.
But there are broad streets, sharply
turning odd corners and losing themselves
in the queerest of lanes running up and
down the hills. There are weather stained
buildings, sacred and municipal, preserved
or restored or partially rebuilt. There Is
one venerable fortified gateway, and an
other graceful medieval arch, while there
are streets and wynds and closes with an
tiauated names like Forgate and the Fry
ars. So, too, there are many, many tim
bered houses with those fine old open gal
leries which used TO look down upon the
courtyards of inns and hostelries-when
wagoners and cartmen liked 10 keep an
eye on their goods and guests shouted for
walters instead of ringing for them.
But the quaintest, sweetest place in all
the Cotswold and Malvern hills is ancient
Broadway. Broadway street is it's old and
pleasant name, derived from that great
road or trackway leading from the west OF
England TO London and the east coast, and
here anciently called the "Bradweia," from
the shepherds "cottes on the mounted
wolds down TO the most fruitful vale OF
Evesham."
II Is one long, wide struggling street,
with a large, open, triangular green, at one
end branching into two great roads, one to
Cheltenham and one to Eyesham. All its
houses are picturesque. Indeed, here IS
one of the few ancient stone built villages
of olden England, left precisely as its max
ers built IL all the way from'3OO TO 800 years
ago, and without a single mark of modern
Improvement" upon it. On every side
are high pitched, gabled roofs, with won
derful stone and iron finals, muilioned win
dows and bays, loaded easements contain
ing the original glass, and huge, tall, stove
chimney stacks-all weathered TO most
beautiful colors. Low stone walls in front
inclose little old world gardens with
clipped and fancifully shaped yew trees.
There are two of the quaintest inns IN
England here. Coaches have run TO and
from them, as now, for hundreds Of years;
for Broadway is beyond the sound of the
railway. and the restful hostelries abound
in interesting bits of detail, old oak doors
and hinges, old glass and easement fasten-
inps and most curious chimney pieces,
plaster ceilings and paneled rooms. Every
house has fat headed, mullioned windows,
with massive wood lintels inside and huge
baulks of oak, roughly squared and mold
ed over the ingles and freplaces. Near
the village green is the old Grange" Of the
abbots Of Pershore; In an old house at one
end OF the village colonies of artists, some
from our own country, annually come and
live in what they call 'Im Paradise" and
from the summit Of Broadway hill not only
can you study scenes blending into thir-
teen English shires, but hundreds Of abbey
barns and ancient stone fsrnhouses can
be seen. In every one of the latter, tradi-
ton will tell you, Charles OF Elizabeth
passed a night How wise Of them to do so
II they had the time.
] enNed them and followed their exam
pie wherever 1 could and from this moss
lest OF all west Of England hooks took en-
trancing strolls 10 Daylesford, where War
rem Hastings was born and where he died;
tolittle Strenham, where Samuel Butler, au-
thor Of "Hudibras," was born; to Chipping
Campden, site Of the ancient "Coteswold
| games" of the time of James /, upon which
Jonson, Drayton and other poets wrote,
and whose rhymes were published in a
/ quaint old volume called "Annalia Du-
brensia, >" In 1880; 70 Winchcombe, asleep
by the babbling Isborne stream, with It's
ruin of a once famous mitered abbey and its
sad memories Of the poisoning Of the queen
dowager Catherine Parr; TO Cleeye Prior,
hung like nest upon the cliffs above the
/ Avon, and 10 Evesham, queen OF noble