If, by chance, the reading of this book should whet the appetite for more about England, or some particular part of the kingdom, there are available in the same series very many volumes on different counties and different features of England. To these I would refer the lover or student of England wishing for closer details. My impression is necessarily a general one; and it is that of a visitor from one of the overseas Dominions—not the less interesting, I hope, certainly not the less sympathetic for that reason.
FRANK FOX.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
PAGE
The Making of England—The Britons and the Romans [1]
CHAPTER II
The Making of England—The Anglo-saxons and the Normans [16]
CHAPTER III
The English Landscape and the English Love of it [28]
CHAPTER IV
The Training of Young England [43]
CHAPTER V
England at Work [64]
CHAPTER VI
England at Play [81]
CHAPTER VII
The Cities of England [101]
CHAPTER VIII
The Rivers of England [114]
CHAPTER IX
England's Shrines [125]
CHAPTER X
The Poorer Population [137]
CHAPTER XI
The Arts in England [155]
CHAPTER XII
Political Life in England [171]
CHAPTER XIII
The Defence of England [187]
INDEX [203]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. St. Paul's from the River Thames [Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
2. The Chalk Cliffs of England [1]
3. North Side, Canterbury Cathedral [8]
4. Richmond, Yorkshire [17]
5. Norman Staircase, King's School, Canterbury [24]
6. A Kent Manor-House and Garden [33]
7. A Sussex Village [40]
8. The Bridge of Sighs, St. John's College, Cambridge [49]
9. St. Magdalen Tower and College, Oxford [56]
10. Broad Street, Oxford, looking West [59]
11. Eton Upper School [62]
12. Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge, London [65]
13. Harvesting in Herefordshire [72]
14. Football at Rugby School [81]
15. Cricket at "Lord's" [88]
16. Trout-fishing on the Itchen, Hampshire [97]
17. Dean's Yard, Westminster [104]
18. Sailing Boats on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London [107]
19. Watergate Street, Chester [110]
20. The River Rother, Sussex [115]
21. Thames at Richmond, Surrey [118]
22. Spring by the Thames [121]
23. Windsor Castle from Fellows' Eyot: Early Spring [124]
24. Glastonbury Abbey, Somersetshire [128]
25. Anne Hathaway's Cottage near Stratford-on-Avon [137]
26. Gipsies on a Gloucestershire Common [144]
27. The Tower from the Tower Bridge, looking West [153]
28. Westminster Abbey from the end of the Embankment [160]
29. Westminster and the Houses of Parliament [169]
30. Hyde Park, London [176]
31. Battleships Manœuvring [193]
32. Changing the Guard [200]