Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-22
pEsTRrr EVENING NEWS. SATURDAY APRIL ee 1898

come to the wales among the Cotswolds.
Then will you see hamlcts and villages
dotting the valleys, embedded in gard.
ems, perched upon the heights, in
settings OF orchards, waving fields
within checkcred lines OF hawthorn
hedges or denser rows Of lines, and
these In turn backed by banks Of forest
primeval, all in such droning quiet,
ample content and smiling opulence
that, full OF the whey exultation Of IL,
all, you again and again irresistibly
exclaim, Here is Already at last"
In. Essex one could wander for
whole summer and never tire of its
messy hooks like Thaxted with lis long,
struggling street OF many.gabled homes,
Us exquisite church, its strange Moot
Hall and its noble relic, Horham Hall.
COgshall, with It's Wondering abbey
ruins and curious "Woolpack" inn;
Saffron Walden, hot-bed OF Essex
superstitions, with Its ruined ca tie,
wonderful old houses and antique Sun
Inn which has set the Essex antqrar-
ians endlessly by the ears; Finchingheid
with Its tumble OF cottages piled one
upon another and It's quaint timber
built almshouses, like those of Coventry;
St. Osvth, with It's remarkable church,
splendid old priory and marvelously
beautiful gatehouse; and Little Dunmow,
struggling, tiny hamlet that II Is, but
famous the world over for It's olden
Fitch Of Bacon" prize for conjugal
felicity.
And II all these we're not enough TO
make you know the indescribably inter
esting and beautiful rural England Of
today, come here where the shires OF
Bucks, Berks and Surrey join. and saun.
Ter for but day round about royal
Windsor.
AT Chertsey but nine miles distant,
once famous for It's abbey. lived and
died the poet Cowley, while Albert
Smith, author OF Christopher Tadpole"
and many other charming works OF
fiction, was born in the same quaint old
village. Datchet. on the Thames, about
a mile from Windsor, has the remains OF
a very ancient monastery; while Datchet
Mead was rendered famous by Shak
speare sin his Merry Wives Of
Windsor"
But four miles distant Is the quaint
and sequestered village Of Horton. In
this, at Berl,yn Manor House, lived
Milton, with his father and mother when
NtiNl iNNhNh ilbll bNHlHtnt III lpN1t anu
here were written his "Comus," "Ar.
cades," "Lycidas," "L'Allegro" and
I'll Penscfero." At old Windsor, two
miles down the river, is one Of the most
impressive old view and cypress shaded
churchyards in England its Moai farm
was the hunting seat of Saxon kings.
Mrs. Robinson, the authoress and the
unfortunate Perdita. Is buried here; and
is Beaumont Lodge, was the former
home Of Warren Hastings.
Bray is but five miles distant, up the
Thames. The "Vicar OF Bray" one
Symones, was that spiritually vivacious
cleric who changed his religion four
times, in successive regions, that he
might die in his Giving" AT Beaeons-
field, to the north near Wilton Park,
was the ONE Of Waller, the poet, and
Burke, the statesman. Here al Slough,
Two miles to the north is the house
occupied so long by Sir William Her
schel, and you will see here part Of
his great forty foot telescope; while two
miles further. beyond meadows green,
nesting in clumps Of yew and oak, is
the olden home Of the Penns. near
which is the messy old parish church
and hamlet of Stoke Poges, where was
written the purest and sweetest elegy
to be found in the English tongue.
EDGAR l.. WAKEMAs,