INTRODUCTION

Geoffrey's father had gone to be the representative ofthe Mother Country in one of the distant Colonies, andas the boy had "more brains than body," to quote hishouse-master, his parents had taken him with them for atime, making a long journey first. When he came hometo go to Eton, I found him a much-travelled person,brimming over with a host of new ideas and impressions,though otherwise the same original dreamy boy as ever.The inches he had added to his height and his chesttestified to the success of the experiment on that score,while it was evident that his active little brain and hisbig eyes had made the most of their opportunities.

"I seemed to be doing lessons all day," he confided tome, "only they weren't lessons out of a book, and theyseemed so much easier to remember. I wish I couldalways learn things by seeing them!" As the Christmasholidays had to be spent in London, I took Geoffrey athis word, and one morning we wandered down toWestminster Abbey for the ostensible purpose of seeingthe Coronation Chair. Of course we saw a great dealmore, and one visit led to another.

"It's not a bit like a churchyard, though it is full ofmonuments," was Geoffrey's criticism one morning. "Itis just a book about English history right from the verybeginning; and please I want you to write it all down;because now I've seen the places and the monumentsand the figures, I shall unders

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