New-York tribune., 1908-09-26
HISTORICAL SHRINES.
ancestral Homes of BitOns U7ho
Made Our Country.

Made Our Country.
AMERICAN sHRINEs IN ENGLAND. BY Alfred
T. Story. illustrated. PIP. 34s. The Macmillan
Company.
The places described in this pleasant volume
are those associated with the ancestry the
early careers OF those men of English blood who
on this side Of the Atlantic in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. bore q strenuous part
in the making Of a nation The author has
been conscientiously at pains in the gathering
Of material from all available sources. Six
chapters are devoted TO the Washingtons and
their homes-chapters which are interesting in
spite of the fact that they show anew how
scanty and fragmentary ar best is all the in
formation that can be collected concerning that
sturdy race. Speculation as to the probable or
the possible helps 10 fill up the picture, but it
is only speculation, after all. What we may ac-
cept as certain is that the Washingtons were
men Of substantial character and OF education
good citizens and honored officials. The traces
OF them remaining at Sugrave and Brngton
are comparatively few, yet they may well IN
terest the American pilgrim and he could not
have a more careful guide than Mr.. story Inc
ancient Sulgrave manor house. changed as it is
since Lawrence Washington lived in II. Is worth
seeing. even If we do not credit the picturesque
story that I'm q closet still in existence Princess
Elizabeth once hid when agent Of her bloody
minded sovereign. Sister Mary. arrived in search
of her Worth seeing, too, Is the Old church
wherein lie Lawrence Washington, Gentleman
and his wife, AIMEE. though parts OF their me
mortal brasses were carried away, some years
ago. bv two well dressed individuals Let US
hope that these were not souvenir huhtihB
Americans Sulgrave like most venerable Eng
lish villages has its legends which old folk love
to tell. and here is one which mas lot Sceie 'ii'
neiEhboring Barrow Hill:
ON the top Of it used to stand ancient ash
tree so withered and Scared that the EillagtrSS
got the idea that 4 was the & haunt eriss 9I Where
fore it was decided that II should be cut down ryt asG
their purpose barely however had they Srv glxsa wa
enough on casting their eyes upon the place
ppncL :" save their homes-to find on reaching
toend that they y hd s@Te seen 4etuqSed to Bar
row mn TO proceed with the dem3nl9hh hair T axes
d' made @ in the old trunk had been healeds t9eS S
opened their mouths IN atna|e 20 % said no man OF
sppIerava ever ventured 20 raise a lhsei "e1'''
the 'unked" ash OF Barro" HUI
obanter on the home Of the Franklins
,,oc,sroitbs and yeomen, with a patrimony Oh
tbi-+v acres takes US to the quiet little village
:. 1.on where there remain some records Oh
a., ..-,f1, though their old stone house mas
a,..,neared When the great Benjamin NislIeu
tho brthplace of his father in l'9o' the hou'e
Was still standing and the philosopher DO
know. felt the appropriate thrill AHotnei
+ractive haunt of the American l~ldNe ~ "
corooby in Nottinghamshire. where "illis'i
brewster was born and wherein was Il a'ieu
tho boId adventure of the Plymouth coioiiy
I,rou,s,er,s home was in the manor house for-
-, .ba o1d a-chiepiscopal palace, and OF THIS
.hora &c nothing left but its site. The mouse OF
80. co,onanion OF the May1ower, William Brao-
ford IS still IN existence in the little hailie' o
AusteraeId near Scrooby- DID the hearts u
the Pilgrims still cling in the New "orio "
tt,a, which they had left in sorrow ana IN uah-
ge,o II would seem so since they gave 10 the
et,oe c,tv they founded here the name Of the
Lincolnshire town whose magistrates had lmpriS-
oned and grievously mistreated them on their
erst attenont to steal away to Holland That
o..bla cs ntain. Miles Standish. was one of the
p,,r,outh party whose birthplace may still be
visted-that is, IL he were really born at lux
hurry Hall in Lancashire 1t Is not certainty
Jobn winthrop came into the world at Grotoh
,roror q, Suffolk and there are Wnthrops liv-
ing there still. though the present Hall Is not
,be one In which he spent half his days
Little is left Of the places in England wherein
once walked that fine old Quaker. William Penn
rhore &c q small meeting house at Coolham
which he built not far from the site of the house
where he lived with his Gulielma-a mouse whlch
earlv in the last century Duke OF Norfolk
pulled down. This little building bears the ex-
traordinary name OF the Blue 1dol-whence IL
,o deri,,ed we are not told 1t is still used as
meeting house and in It's graveyard lies one
of Penns children. The Quaker cemetery OF
Jordans holds the graves Of Penn and his two
,riyas and MI Story gives to understand
that the American project of buying and trans
ferring Penn's bones TO these shores is one
which IL is useless to moot before the Quaker
authorities Another shrine often visited Dy
Americans is the old manor house in North
x.yoles which was the seat of many generations
of Yales though Elihu. Of New Haven was borE
on this side of the Mr.. Story devotes
an agreeable chapter TO this worthy and an
other TO the benefcent son of the Southwark
butcher Master Harvard. We may take pride
in the fact that the OF our two great uni
yersities have done their best to honor their
benefactors by the erection Of fitting memorials
in the land of their fathers. The author, indeed
notes many admirable tokens OF international