ENGLISH PICTURES
By The Rev. Samuel Manning, LL.D., and The Rev. S. G. Green, D.D.
1889
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CONTENTS
THE COUNTRY OF BUNYAN AND COWPER.
ROUND ABOUT SOME INDUSTRIAL, CENTRES.
PREFACE:
A British nobleman—so runs the story—when travelling in Switzerland was so impressed by the gloomy grandeur of one of the mountain passes, that he exclaimed, "Surely there is no other view like this in the world!"
"I am told, my lord," said the guide, "that there is but one,"—naming a view in the Scottish I lighlands.
"Why," replied the nobleman, "that is on my own estate, and I have never seen it!"
The anecdote may be doubtful historically, but in idea it is true. Non é vero, ma ben trovato.
The number of Englishmen who really know their own country is comparatively few; and no doubt there are motives quite independent of the love for natural beauty, which lead the hard-worked men of our generation to escape at intervals to as great a distance as possible from the scene of their daily occupations. The effort for this, howev