



Produced by Al Haines









[Illustration: Cover art]




[Frontispiece: A YOUNG PRINCE WATCHING THE SCOTS GUARDS FROM
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE]




  PEEPS AT MANY LANDS

  ENGLAND

  BY

  JOHN FINNEMORE



  CONTAINING TWELVE FULL-PAGE
  ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR



  LONDON
  ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
  1908




  CONTENTS

  I. IN LONDON TOWN--I.
  II. IN LONDON TOWN--II.
  III. IN LONDON TOWN--III.
  IV. OLD FATHER THAMES--I.
  V. OLD FATHER THAMES--II.
  VI. IN A CATHEDRAL CITY
  VII. THROUGH WESSEX--I.
  VIII. THROUGH WESSEX--II.
  IX. THROUGH WESSEX--III.
  X. ROUND THE TORS
  XI. THE LAND OF SAINTS
  XII. IN SHAKESPEARE'S COUNTRY
  XIII. AN OLD ENGLISH HOUSE
  XIV. BY FEN AND BROAD
  XV. BY DALE AND FELL
  XVI. THE PLAYGROUND OF ENGLAND--I.
  XVII. THE PLAYGROUND OF ENGLAND--II.
  XVIII. HEROES OF THE STORM




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LOI A YOUNG PRINCE WATCHING THE SCOTS
  GUARDS FROM MARLBOROUGH HOUSE... _Rose Barton_. _Frontispiece_

LONDON: ST. PAUL'S AND LUDGATE HILL... _Herbert Marshall_

BY AN ENGLISH RIVER... _Birket Foster_

TOMB OF THE BLACK PRINCE IN
  CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL... _W. Biscombe Gardner_

IN AN ENGLISH COUNTRY TOWN... _Walter Tyndale_

IN AN ENGLISH LANE... _Birket Foster_

SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE... _Fred Whitehead_

AN ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE... _Walter Tyndale_

IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE... _W. Biscombe Gardner_

AN ENGLISH COTTAGE... _Mrs. Allingham_

IN AN ENGLISH WOOD... _Stilton Palmer_

ON AN ENGLISH COMMON... _Birket Foster_ ELOI



[Illustration: SKETCH-MAP OF ENGLAND.]




ENGLAND


IN LONDON TOWN--I.

London is the greatest city in the world.  How easy it is to say that
or read it!  How very, very hard it is to get the least idea of what it
means!  We may talk of millions of people, of thousands of streets, of
hundreds of thousands of houses, but words will give us little grasp of
what London means.  And if we go to see for ourselves, we may travel up
and down its highways and byways until we are dizzy with the rush of
its hurrying crowds, its streams of close-packed vehicles, its rows
upon rows of houses, shops, banks, churches, museums, halls, theatres,
and begin to