Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-17
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THE SHAKESPEARE COUNTRY

point OF departure for Kenilworth,
Warwick and Stratford- on Avon,
reaching those points by coaching
trips. In that most beautiful region
Of rural England it is much to be
preferred to railways. We found
the hotels full and two OF us were
quartered for the night in a little
temperance hotel. 1t was unique
experience to read and retire by the
light OF a candle, carrying me back
forty years to the tallow candles Of
early boyhood. Generalizing from
two experiences in temperance ho-
tells, one concludes that they leave
much to be desired in furnishing
and service if they are really to com
pete with hotels to which a bar is
attached. We made a morning
drive to Kenilworth, returning by
Guys Cliff and Warwick. The
round trip is about twelve miles.
Weather could hardly be more ideal
or scenery more beautiful. Kenil.
worth is only ruin. Roof, win
.dows and much of the walls are
gone. Massive and ivy clad, it is
nevertheless impressive. The great
Casar's tower that goes back nearly
to the Norman conquest is as firm
and strong as if completed yester-
day. With wall II feet thick and a
we'll within its walls it offers effective
assistance to an age of bows and
Skrows as Henry III found when he
esieged the insurgent mobiles for six
months. No tower in England save
Me former tower OF London has
thicker or more massive walls. At
.Me northwest corner is the strong or
Mervyn tower with kitchen and
Efeat banqueting hall built by John
SM Gaunt. In the second story OF
xhe tower is the room assigned by
Sir Walter Scott to Amy Robsart.
In the garden below is the Swan.
tower and grotto where he repre-
SCENTS Queen Elizabeth as finding
her. On the southeast corner OF the
castle are the buildings which the.
Earl of Leicester erected at that
time, already decayed. Round about
are the ancient moats and ruins Of
the outer wall hanked by towers that
were the castles defense in that
stormy medieval time. An hour
Isufhces the ordidary visitor for an
examination of the ruins. Interest
ing as they are, tourist enthusiasm
for them is more monument to the
genius of Sir Walter Scott, than to
their inherent historical significance.
To his genius the inhabitants Of the
village that surrounds the ruins can
not for many years have realized
less that ten thousand pounds year.
Our return was by Guys Cliff, a
modern mansion-the seat of the
Percy sand Warwick, for which
couple of hours is needed. 1t is, as
Hawthorne puts il, ones very idea
of an old castle and SO admirable
is the view of its walls from the
bridge over the Avon that we can
quite agree with him when he says,
1--WE can scarcely think the scene
real so completely do those machic-
olated towers, the long line oil battle
ments, the massive buttresses, the
high Widowed walls, shape out our
indistinct ideas of that antique time" ;"
We enter by an impressive forest
clad winding road cut much Of the
way through an intervening hill, and
pass Under a magnificent archway
between Caesar and Guys towers
that are almost as large as Caesars $
tower at Kenilworth in their massive
grandeur. Within the walls at one
side of which is the Castle is mag
nihcent lawn reminding One Of the
Englishman's answer to the Ameri.
can asking the secret Of their beauti,
lawns, First NOW it for six CEN
turies.'' The gorgeous beauty Of
the peacocks on the lawn seemed
in fitting environment. Entering at
the southern end, one passes the
helmet OF Cromwell, suits OF atmut
and weapons rich in historical sig
hfcance, the Van Dyck's portrait Of
Charles the First, and looks down
pn halls ass fast in lsngih. Ca