Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-04-22

embedded In gardens, perched upon the
heights. In settings of lush orchards, wav-
ing fields within checkered lines of hay-
thorn hedges or denser rows of lines, and
these in turn backed by banks of forest
primsval; all in such dronfng quiet, ann
pie content and smiling opulence that,
full of the winey exultation of 1t all, you
again and again irresistibly exclaim,
"Here is Already at lastl"
In Essex one could wander for q whole
summer and never tire of Its mossy nooks
like Thaxted, with its long struggling
street of many gabled homes, its eSoui-
site church, its strange Moot Hall and
its noble relic, Horham Hall; Cogshall,
with its moulderipg abbey ruins and curl
ous "Woclpsck" inn; Saffron Walden, hot
bed of Essex superstitions, with its ruined
castle, wonderful old houses and ANTIQUE
Sun inn which has set the Essex antious-
rians endlessly by the ears; FinchipgGeld
with its tumble of cottages piled one upon
another and its quaint timber-built aims
houses, like those of Coventry; st. Osyth,
with its remarkable church, splendid old
priory aud msrvelously beautiful gate
house: aud Little Dunmow, struggling,
tiny hamlet that it is, but famous the
con" prize for coniugal felicity.
And If all these were not enough to
make you know the indescribably inter
esting and beautiful rural England of to-
day, come here where the ehires of Bucks,
Berks and Surrey join, and saunter for but
a day roundabout royal Windsor.
At Chertsey, but nine miles distant.
once famous for its abbey, lived and died
the poet Cowley, while Albert Smith, su-
thor of "Christopher Tadpole," and many
other charming works of fiction, was born
in the same quaint old village. Datchet,
on the Thames, about q mile from Wind
monastery; while Dstchet Mead was rem
dered famous By Shakespeare In his "Mer-
~ Wives of Windsor"
But four miles distant Is the quaint and
se9uestered village of Horton. In this, at
Berkyn Manor House, lived Milton, with
his father and mother when they retired
from business I'm 1882 sDd here were writ
ten his ''Comus," "Arcsdes," "Lycidss, {"
"L'Allegro" and I'll PeBserero." At Old
Windsor, two miles down the river, ia one
of the most impressive old ysw and cy-
press shaded church-yards in EHglsnd
Its Most Farm wss the hunting seat of
Saxon kings. Mrs. Robinson, the author
ess and the unfortunate Perdits, Is bur-
led here; and its Beaumont Lodge was
the former home of Warren HRstings
Bray ie but five miles distant up the
Thames The ''Vicar OF Bray" one Sy-
monde, was thst spiritually viveclous
cleric who changed his religion four times,
in successive reigus, that he might die in
his Giving" At Besoonsfeld, to the
north near Wilton Park, was the home of
Waller, the poet. and BurKe, the ststes-
man. Here at Slough, two miles to the
north, is the house occupied so long by Sir
William Herschel, and you will see here
avn of for<r-Fnot talalaor,a-
while two miles further, beyond meadows
gresn, nesting in clamps of yew and oak,
is the olden home of the Penns, near
which is the mossy old parish church and
hamlet of Stoke Pages, where was written
the purest and sweetest elegy to be found
in the English tongue.
EDGAR L. WAKEMAN.