The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-31
WAKEMAN'SW ANDERINGS
CURIOUS FBATU les IN SOME WEST
OF ENGLAND NOOKs.

Away From the Maelstrom Lines Of
void Hills--Age-M Messed Mountain
Hsmlets and DreamfuI Valley
Towns-Ldylhc saunterings.
(CoDuriQht.)
CIRENCEsrER, ENGLAND, July lS.-One
does not know hundredth part of England
even after years Of travel among her his
toric scenes and about her countless shrines.
feel this more and more when, after
firing Of grand old beaten paths, l step
aside, but a step it sometimes seems, and
find maze upon maze of sweet old hooks,
wonderfully winsome in collective or indi-
vidusl aspects and these could never be
exhausted, If one set OUT to explore for such
as these and know them never so little when
found, during the natural course of a life
time.
1t seems to me that the west OF England =,
Say the western OF the midland counties,
furnishes the most extraordinary of these
half mountain eeries. You need not 60 30
far south or west az Devon and Somerset,
not even into Wales, where scenery has
more the elements of wild and savage
grandeur, aud where the good folk who can
speak English as well as you can pride
themselves in making you believe they
cannot speak it at all. and that Welsh was
The language Of Adam and Eve.
Neither will you have TO go 50 far as the
lake district, which is all sublimity and no.
Gel and posting bills; nor to Northumber-
land and Durham, verdureless aud suggest
I've OF coal; nor again to Yorkshire, where
Tue shuddering fogs flap along the grew
Some moors
But here in the very heart of England,
"here anybody that has two days time.
though he should have Two months instead
auu Two stout legs, can come FRO n any
great English city almost as in g holt
Jay stroll are these myriad places OF restful-
ness and teauty, hidden coy from the globe
Hotters lorgnettes in the glens and hollows
OF These midland hills, with histories reach
l"g farther back than the time Of the Sax
ems first coming, with the moss Of ages
upon ITEM, and yet all of them as sweet
aud fresh as the dew trickling from the
Ioftiest grasses of Cleeve Clouds and Broad
way Beacon, which stand like grim old
lowers above the Cotswold hills.
know the live American tourist is
hardly worthy of himself if having arrived
"a Liverpool on Tuesday or Friday evening,
he has not ''done" Chester.
dashed through Leamiugton. nodded in a
friendly way to the painted edigy OF
Shakespeare, become tired of London.
glanced at Kenilworth and Warwick and
sS%ept around through the lake district to
Giasgow, the Trossachs, EdiD burgh, Alb
Do'stord and Melrose. in fact exhausted
dreat Britain" as he naively and quite
correctly puts it, before the first week has
Iarely rolled around.
4. But II this sort Of person could learn that
Ine best results Of travel come from idling
rather than cycloniug through foreign
epacs, aud could get shunted away from
railways and then meet with some sort OF
He1alnlng accident that would hold his
lungs, eyes and heart within region like
tuls long enough to get them used to it,
slauon and radiance, there would be one
Ie's rlcochetting monstrosity among men,
and that much of a blessed calm would
coine along the maelstrom lines Of travel.
pleasant way to reach this lovely re-
sl'n is through Warwickshire. Stop day
vi more at Stratford II you like, and loiter
Hoont the church beside the Avon. Then
kst an old boatmAn. mind you, an old and
sarrulous boatman, to row you down the
historic stream. He will tell you more
40 ut VIII Shakespeare and his times than
! tAe mighty bald had been bis schoOlmats.
10 not let him row fast Give him time 70
's'' and descant upon the origin Of Roman