'Borke, 'With an' introduction by Longmans Green & Ca.
This is an outstanding volume in the "English Heritage" series edited by Viscount Lee of Fareham and Mr. J. C. Squire, in which certain, aspects of the English inheritance axe capably dealt with—social, political, literary, artistic, and phy: sical. Mr. Burke regards the Eng-igh inn as an almost defunct intution of which England has good reason to be proud—although he does not hesitate to criticize th good inn as heartily as he praises the good. He confesses to personal knowledge of 120 delightful places, among which are names that tempt, one torely to go Home and a-hunt-jug: The Civil Usage; You Might 'Ag Well; The Trip To Jerusale' No Hurry; The Sea Horse; Black Boy And Stomach Ao Flatiron and Frog; The Open Arms, But his book is by no means guide-book; it is, as Mr. Herbert yoys in his introduction, a "revelation" One of the six chapters into which the book is divided is a bril-lant example of what the moderns re pleased to term "suspended terest." It tells "Tales Of Wayside Inns," of how foolish travellers and their money were soon parted avaricious hosts in the days when railways were never thought of and the traveller found facility in reading of the mystic flights of
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