Abstract
IN the phrasing of a bygone age, Mrs. Woodcock combines instruction with entertainment. In this companion to her volume on Scotland she has selected more than fifty places of interest scattered throughout England and has given her readers a bird's-eye view of the salient features of the history of each. Topographical and architectural details are strictly subordinated to elucidating the story. This is told admirably in a graphic and succinct narrative without unnecessary ornament. The author's interest is catholic, and she covers not only picturesque towns, such as Dover and Rye, Burford, Beverley, or York, but also castles, great houses, such as Knole and Hatfield, and ruins and prehistoric monuments, Kenilworth, Avebury and Stonehenge. Illustration is generous and excellent.
Historic Haunts of England
By Gwen Woodcock. Pp. xiii + 368 + 48 plates. (London: Alexander Maclehose and Co., 1938.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Historic Haunts of England. Nature 142, 95 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142095a0
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