" BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5356, 6 September 1895, Page 2

" BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN."

PART K.

One is tempted to say, on lookine through Part 10 of "Beautiful Britain," that the good things have been kept till now. The trutb is that the high standard of quality and the taste in the selection of subjects displayed in Part 1 have been perfectly maintained, and thus each new part is aa productive of enjoyment as any of itß predecessors. We are treated this week to one of those lovely bits of beauty for which Great Britain iB famed— a brook in the New Forest. The brook, like the stream whereof Tennyson wrote, lingers by a shingly bar and makes its way through brambly wildernesses, while bridge arches make "hoary eyebrows for the gleam beyond." A picture full of classic repose is furnished by the Broad Walk at Oxford, the avenue of stately trees seeming to be in peri feot keeping with the associations of the university city. There is a delightful stretch of river, Sonning Lock, a few miles | from Reading, and knowing the fame of the locality foritsbeea, one oan, in looking at tbia sun-bathed picture, seem to hear the drowsy hum of the pollen or honeyladen insects. One of the subjects of romantic legend is the castle that crowns a rocky islet in the Lake of Killarney— a spot full of traditions regarding the O'Doncghues, the old race of chieftains respecting whom readers of Irish folk lore will be . familiar with quaintly conceived legends. There is an admirably photographed view of the old Manor House at Stoke Pogis, near Windsor, famed in later days as the locality of that churchyard which formed the theme for Graj's Elegy. "The Pavilion at Brighton, " iB a picture with a difference — an example of incongruity and garish newness. One turns with a Henso of relief to such a subject aa Chtawick House, not because of the architecture therein, by any means, but for the Bake of the old tree that is slowly passing to decay. Scarborough Castle is another splendidly produced picture, though the use of a lena is advisable for bringing out the details of the masonry that was put together bo many centuries: ago. Of the interiors, the most interesting is the Throne Room at Windsor Castle, a chamber of regal proportions and regal in its scheme of decoration.