The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
JUDGE TYLER IN ENGLAND.
Interesting Description Of Visit to
Oxford and StratfOrd.On-AyOp.

Oxford and Standardization.
The following letter of Judge
James M. Tyler, written the week be-
fore he sailed for home, is copied
from the Brattleboro Reformer:
London, Oct. 81
We arrived in London about the
middle of September and have been
here ever since, with the exception
of several short tours into the coun-
try and one of ten days duration
when we visited STANDARDIZATION
We were there shown the house
where Shakspere was born and
the place in front Of the high altar
in the beautiful parish church, where
he and his family are buried. About
the altar are several fine statues and
portraits of the great poet, and there
are tablets set in the walls in COM
memoration of him. We, of course,
visited the Hathaway Cottage and
saw the old settle upon which Shaks-
pere and Anne sat at the left of the
place. We were told that Shaks-
pere's father was a we'll TODD man,
wool dealer and a manufacturer of
gloves for laboring men. Shakspere,
as you know, won his fame in London
but having won it and being weary
with his labor, he returned to STRAIT
ford, built a house, since destroyed,
and died there in 1916, at the age of
fifty-two. The town has done well
to erect in recent years a memorial
building containing an elegant thea
ire and a hall fitted with Shaksperean
paintings and large library of
books. While it has rare collection
of busts and portraits of distin-
guished dramatists and actors, it is
most remarkable for portraits and
statues of Shakspere himself, made
at various periods in his wonderful
career.
On this tour we visited Warwick
and Warwick Castle, which is consid-
cred one of the finest feudal residen-
ces in England, having its origin in
the time of the SaXons. Visitors are
only shown certain rooms in the alb
sence of the family, like the banquet
hall, 40 by 81 feet and 80 feet high
with Gothic arches and the walls
adorned with rare paintings. In this
hall kings and queens have been en-
tertained. We were shown the draw
ing rooms, the armorial room and
the room containing Queen Anne's
furniture, presented by George III
All these rooms were, of course, ele-
gantly furnished and adorned with
rare and valuable paintings. l. dwell
upon this because it is the residence
of an Earl / asked the guide as We
came out if it was large estate ant
he replied, no, only a few thousand
acres, but that the Earl's brother-ir
law owned a million acres.
We came down to the ancient sea-
of learning, beautiful Oxford, situated
at the confluence of Cherwell and the
Thames. You may ask what there
can be in a college building besides
students dormitories, lecture and re
citation rooms. But the hoary out
side walls of most of these buildings
denote their antiquity, several O
them having been founded in the 1871
and others in the 14th and 18th ant
10th centuries. The chapels ant
dining halls are the attractions OF
account of their ancient architecture
and especially so because their walls
are covered with portraits of Eng
lands most eminent men in church
also the Martyrs Memorial a nobl,
state, war and letters, most of then
by the great painters of their times
/ must just mention the Bodleial
Library, with its 100000 volumes ant
its halls of statuary and portraits
monument erected to the memory o
Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley, whit
were burned at the stake in 1856 ant
in 1856 in front of Balliol College. 1
star in stone in Broad street mark
the spot.
Since our return to London which
has a population of only 100000, W.
have been slowly but steadily seeing
it's great places of interest-th,