New-York tribune., 1901-12-08

Journeving in a leisurely way on his bicycle in /
the North of England. Mr.. Bradley collected ma |
teriaI for this entertaining book, book not
onl,, pIeasant 10 read hut exceedingly useful as
2 guide to other travellers. He dwells the
natural beauties and literary associations of the
lovely Lake Country. and he recalls vivid |
eImpses OF the Border life and warfare Of cen |
turies ago He has. we are glad to say. eye |
for character and something of a sense Of /
humor.
Strenuous indeed life along the Border in f,
the olden times, its relics testify to this day.
Scattered through all the region are the rem
nants more or less incorporated into more recent
farmhouse or mansion, Of the old Peel towers. |
For the country squire Of faraway centuries, |
when he married and built himself a house, hae
TO prepare for war between Scotland and Eng
land and for the incursions of marauding moss
troopers. Hence arose oblong stone box OF
three stories. thirty feet by twenty. perhaps.
with hattemented roof holding in corner
a little watch tower. There often door
the first floor and the bride climbed a ladder
10 the two three living rooms on the second
story and thence ascended by a spiral staircase
10 the sleeping rooms above Came a b dy of men
alarms pricking cut of the North, the stout
bridegroom ordered the ladder pulled UP, melted
his lead looked TO his arrows, ard bussed his
lady at leisure behind his walls of stone five OF
the squire and his wife began to want more
room and things handsome about them Long.
low wings added the Peel tower. these
sometimes ending in another tower. and quaint
and beautiful manor house came into being
speaking half of peace and half of war Some
of these built in the sixteenth century or ear
lier are still in existence, and not much altered
Those which fell into the hands of a farming
race are least changed. i'll such cases modern
rod
One Of the most splendid Of the castelated ruins
Of the feudal time is Brcugham Castle. the home
Of Wordswo.th's shepherd Lord the Clifford
who was brought up in shepherds hovel u
sa1e him from the Yorkists, and learned love
and wisdom therein:
Love had he found in huts where poor men lie;
His daily teachers had been woods and rills,
The silence that is in the starry sky.
The sleep that Is among the lonely nils
Here too lived his descendant. that energetic
Anne Countess of Pembroke who made even
the great Cromwell sing small. To his threat
that he would knock her castles about her ears
as fast as she built repaired them, the valiant
old lady made answer that just so fast would
she Of surety build them up again; whereupon |
the Protector discreetly retired from the field
Countess Anne was clever business woman, /
looked closely into all arrangements with her
army of tenants and once spent t2oe in a law
suit with OF them over pay llieiIl IDi d
single hen She won the case and asked her op-
moment TO dinner: and the bird in question was
divided between the two as a first course She
was by inheritance High Sheriff Of Westmore-
land and used to take her place upon the bench
between the judges Of assize, being at that time
a dame OF resolute countenance and approach |
ing her seventeen year She left behlnd her
many desirable MSS. setting forth her own sentl-
rnents opinions and experiences, only small por-
ticrls of which have ever been published
At kendall another Westmoreland castle now,
like Proughan slowly falling into ruin, was
horn Katharine Par that cheerful, learned and |
v+.-y Queen who managed by dint Of these
qualities TO outlive her testy husband Henry |
VII The King was her third husband, and
1Vo months after his death she married fourth
in the person OF Lord Seymour She was only
1f,frtv-six when. a year after, she died, having
hacked considerable experience into that not
xery long life: Mr. Bradley reminds US that
her body had as many vicissitudes in as out of
tho grave She was buried in the seymour
chanel at Sudeiey. in Gloucestershre; ana
.oxvard the end of the eighteenth century a
Marty of ladies' rummaging in the ruined chapel
.a,,,.. ,,no- indications which led them TO eX-
ca.are under the north IL
their curiosity was rewarded 10y llliuIii7
laaden coffin within foot OF the surface ptdi
ms, an inscrpton to the effect that 1t contained
the remains of Katharine Parr 1hty cause