"BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5338, 16 August 1895, Page 2

"BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN."

PART Ylh Lovers of Tennyson will be delighted with a picture that appears in Part 7of , " Beautiful Britain"— King Arthur's Cattle I at Tintagel i tbe scene of bo many anci- • dents of song and story j where Launoelot ' and Guinevere roamed, where King Arthur fought, where Sir Bedivere, carrying the sore-smitten chief of the Bound Table, " based his faefc on juts of slippery orag," and whence the mysterious barge set ea.il for "the island valley of AviUon." Another pioture full of historic .and legendary interest shows us the Coronation Chair, and the footnote tells us the '■ tradition about the famous "Stone of destiny " that the ohair encloses. Yet . another brings to our mind muoh of the ' legendary record in which Ireland is so rich, the pioture in question being Duntuce j Castle, the ancient stronghold in the vicinity^ of the Giant's Causeway that has been the scene of many a tragio incident, and that by reason of its stormbeaten aspect and its cavernous recesses might afford suggestions for an infinite number of oreepy stories. But the 'put under notice is also rich in beautiful bits) of beautiful Britain, and 'a specially charming study is famished by a Berkshire • Manor-house. Even the grey tones of the . photograph demonstrate that: the -em- , bowered building is rioh in the warm colouring of old bricks and old tiles, to say nothing of the artistio effects of mullioned windows and riohly-oarved woodwork. Dartmouth Castle forms a pioture full of quiet beauty, the water of the harbour smooth M • mirror, and a soft light pervading all. Grand old trees— which 'to our thinking must be ranked amongst England's choicest poß.esßiona— are shown in the pic- . tures of Btoke Park and the Queen's tearoom at Frogmore; and revelations of regal splendour are afforded by a Windsor Caatle corridor, crowded with pictures, " marble busts and exquisitely fashioned cabinetß, carved and inlaid ohairs, and other gems of artistio workmanship. There is one other pioture to which brief reference must be made—the rains at Canterbury—which at once suggests the moving , scenes that accompanied Bt Augustine** [ noble work in the establishment of Chris- ; tianity, and in providing ecclesiastical ; buildings of aB noble a type aB the world ; has ever known. "