Mr. Morton's dedication, in In Search of England (Methuen, 7s.
gd.),
" Do you remember, lady, how the dawn Came slow above the Isle of Athelney?"
Minds us somehow of those greater lines by Mr. Chesterton : " Do you remember how we went, Under a dragon moon ? "
at the book itself has no echoes of any style but Mr. Morton's alen. He is almost irritatingly interesting. One feels e might be studying Shakespeare or the musical glasses ; instead, the author links his arm in ours and we cannot choose but hear. In the search for England, however, we feel he misses one spot unforgivably (but we all have our beloved places), and that is Battle Abbey. If ever there was a haunted place, it is this. He writes of the ghosts of Beaulieu, but not of the garden at Battle where the Conqueror supped, nor of the yew walk where the friars of the Reformation paced, muttering dark curses against those who should dispossess them. We may add that the book is as well illustrated as it is Well written. Indeed, " Sheep at the Dew Pond " and " In the New Forest " arc the two best photographs we have ever seen. This book would make a delightful present for .summer holiday.
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