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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33929, 23 August 1975, Page 10

BOSTON STUMP.—The old Dutch church with the curiouslynamed tower stands in the town of Boston. Holland—not Massachusetts. Holland is one of the three parts of Lincolnshire, and the little-known English Boston was once the greatest port of England, except London. The picture and information come from “H.V. Morton’s England” (Evre Methuen. 158 pp. N.Z. price $11.45). This is a selection from three famous travel books in which Morton described the English scene, bringing to his task curiosity, a sense of history, and feeling for people and places. His first book appeared nearly 50 years ago, and what he found in England, Scotland. Ireland, and Wales in the years that followed has never been out of print. The anthology is complemented by 39 colour and 74 monochrome illustrations, and maps. There have been many changes since Morton first went travelling in search of England and its people. Much of what he wrote about then is still fresh and true in today’s England.